Peel Memorial Hospital, part three

Despite five expansions to Peel Memorial in a span of 31 years, planners were facing a hard time of keeping up with overwhelming demand. Thankfully the South Peel Hospital (now Trillium Health Centre) opened in 1952, to serve those in the towns that eventually became Mississauga. A two-stage expansion, including a 10-storey wing, added 439 beds at a cost of $10.5 million. Grown from 12 to 700 beds, the hospital hosted 8,755 people annually by 1965, and 16,919 by Brampton’s Centennial in 1973. By that year, plans were underway to build a 200-bed hospital in Bramalea by 1980, by Chinguasousy Township.