by Rebecca Walker — December 24, 2008—VFA Canada Corp., a provider of facilities capital planning and asset management solutions, has announced that the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has selected VFA to assess the condition of public hospitals province-wide and to provide software for capital planning.
Ontario is the third provincial health ministry to implement capital planning solutions from VFA Canada. Under the terms of the agreement, valued at more than $8 million over four years, assessment teams from VFA Canada along with partners MMM Group/Rybka Division and Parkin Architects, Ltd., will work with Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) and individual hospitals to evaluate the condition of over 200 Ontario healthcare facilities, encompassing 73 million square feet.
The contract includes an optional four year extension. VFA will also provide more than 500 software subscriptions for VFA.facility, Web-based facilities capital planning software. The software will be used by representatives of the ministry, LHINs and hospitals to support ongoing facilities asset management, planning and budgeting.
Through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model, VFA.facility will give users across the province secure access to a central source of information with accurate, objective information about the physical condition of Ontario’s public hospitals.
VFA’s flagship software product, VFA.facility, is currently used to manage more than two billion square feet of real estate. For more information, see the Web site.
