Thank you, Brian.
That was a big endeavour, I have to admit. We started this project eight years ago. It was a major planning exercise.
All the plans and specifications were done in compliance with provincial standards. The environment now is secure, not only for the residents but for the employees as well. In the old infrastructure, some of the private bathrooms in private rooms, for instance, were so narrow that a patient could not wheel himself into the bathroom, so there were many manipulations that employees had to do, and we had a lot of work accidents at Ste. Anne's.
Now the environment is secure and it's also well adapted to the changing needs of the clientele, considering that more than half our patients are in wheelchairs. What we did was build a new power plant. We then built a pavilion for residents who have cognitive impairments such as Alzheimer's disease. It's a pavilion that is only two storeys high and has 116 private rooms with semi-private bathrooms.
Then we transferred 116 patients from our main pavilion to that adjacent pavilion and started renovating the main pavilion. We did it in four phases, and now it's completed. We have 330 private rooms with semi-private bathrooms in the main tower. We also improved the outside area and we have a new security system.
In a nutshell, that's really what we did at Ste. Anne's. The project is not completely finished yet. They had to redo all the outside of the building and remove the concrete panels. Right now, they're finishing the external envelope of the building, and hopefully by the beginning of the new year the whole building will be completed.