Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare seeking partner for Windsor’s HART hub [Video]

The CEO of Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare, one of the lead agencies tasked with managing finances for Windsor’s proposed HART hub, has said that the new model focuses on streamlining referrals between existing services rather than creating new ones.

During Monday’s Windsor city council meeting, it was announced that Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare will serve as a lead “transfer payment agency” (TPA) for the HART hub.

The HART — Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment — hub model was introduced by the province to replace safe drug consumption sites.

(Sanjay Maru/CTV News Windsor)

In August, the Ford government announced it would not accept new applications for safe consumption sites, which means that SafePoint at 101 Wyandotte Street East will not reopen.

The province has allocated $378 million to fund 19 new HART hubs across Ontario, focusing on treatment and recovery rather than supervised drug consumption.

“We have service providers. This will not develop a new service, but …