Its major areas of clinical emphasis include emergency, obstetrics, general medicine, intensive care unit, surgery, rehabilitation, complex transitional care and medical imaging. The emergency department is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, together with the outpatient department provides care to more than 37,000 patients annually. The hospital is equipped with a helipad. Expansions In 1959, MDH opened with 53 beds. MDH's first expansion came in 1967, only a few years after initially opening its doors. Thirty beds were added in that 1967 expansion. After significant population growth in the 1970s, a proposal for a further expansion was first proposed in 1979, and by 1980, 52 patients per day were visiting the emergency room, double the number from 10 years prior.The hospital also underwent a significant multi-year expansion that was completed in 1988, which involved two wings, and increased the total number of beds to 103. Prior to this expansion the hospital had 83 beds. A Canadian Kiowa military helicopter was also flown in 1983 to test a route for a proposed helipad addition at the hospital. To fund the expansion a $1-million fundraising goal was set, with $100,000 of that total being achieved through a "Help us, Help you" buy a break campaign. In 2015, the Government of Ontario announced an investment of up to $501.3 million to support the construction of a new four-story patient care building at Milton District Hospital to give patients faster access to care. Through this expansion, patients in Milton were expected to benefit from: A new patient care building to offer priority clinical services, including critical care, maternal newborn, diagnostic imaging, emergency, surgery and inpatient beds Increasing inpatient beds from 63 to 129, including more single-patient rooms for improved infection prevention and increased patient privacy The addition of the hospital's first Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine A Special Care Nursery with capacity for eight bassinettes in the Maternal Newborn Unit. Construction at Milton District Hospital was completed in 2017. A news report in September 2017 indicated that the facility now provided an extra 330,000 square feet of health-care space. The Emergency Department, for example, was tripled in size, with a new capacity of 45,000 patient visits per year. References Hospital buildings completed in 1959 Buildings and structures in the Regional Municipality of Halton Heliports in Ontario Hospitals established in 1959 Hospitals in Ontario Milton, Ontario Certified airports in Ontario