Province funds new Community Health Care Centre for Burlington

By Gazette Staff

April 29th, 2026

BURLINGTON, ON

Burlington residents are getting a new place for health services.

It will be called the Support House Community Health Centre and will be located at 760 Brant Street.

Located at the intersection of Ghent and Brant, the owners had planned on adding additional housing to the South end of the property. The site had significant for a new restaurant that would draw on the population that will begin to live in the Fairview high-rise condos that will eventually be built.

Burlington residents are getting a new way to connect with doctors, nurses, and other health-care experts.

On Wednesday morning, MPP Natalie Pierre, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health Anthony Leardi, and Support House executive director Christina Jabalee announced a $2.1 million investment from the provincial government that will see the city’s first Community Health Centre up and running as early as next month.

“This is a significant milestone for our city and for our community,” Pierre said. “The Community Health Centre model connects patients to a primary care provider, and a full team of healthcare professionals that work collaboratively.”

Approximately 10 full time staff will be working at the new space, with two physicians, two registered nurses, plus social workers, peer support workers, and more.

Though the centre is expected to open in just a few weeks part-time, it will take until the end of summer for the space to be fully operational.

“We are hoping within six months we will be up and running full time,” Jabalee said.

The Community Health Centre will be a resource for the community to find the care they need, and that the centre is long overdue in Halton.

Other regions in Ontario have been benefiting from Community Health Centres for years, while those in Halton have been waiting for a way to connect to a doctor.

“These Community Health Centres are everywhere, but they call this the dry zone,” she said. “We will have salaried physicians and nurse practitioners so we can take time with those who have multiple needs, who are vulnerable in the community, to help what is going on to make sure they can get the care they need.”

Pierre called the model a single stop for those in need to find the right place to go for treatments.

“If that is addiction, counselling, nursing care, mental health support, it is a one-door-to-many-door approach, and that is important for us in Burlington,” she said.

The funding for the new centre comes from the $3.4 billion Primary Care Action Plan, Pierre said. The PCAP oversees the attachment of every resident in Ontario with a primary healthcare practitioner, which Pierre said will happen by 2029.

Burlington’s Community Health Centre will aid 4,500 people in the community, she said.

“This expansion of primary care in Burlington is made possible through the latest call for proposals under our government’s Primary Care Action Plan,” Pierre said. “It is one more way we are building on our progress and ensuring that people right here in Burlington, and across Ontario, have access to high quality health care closer to home for years to come.”

The Support House Community Health Centre is located at 760 Brant Street.