Fundraising for the new acute care hospital gets underway this weekend.
The inaugural event Starry Night takes place Saturday, November 26th at Augustus27 in Caesars Windsor.
The community is responsible for paying 10% the cost of the new hospital and any money that is raised in the community will offset the taxpayer's responsibility.
The hospital alone costs $1.3 billion but with the other aspects of the health care transformation project including renovations at the Tayfour Campus, Ouellette Campus and a new Urgent Care Centre, the total cost of the project jumps to $2-billion.
Former Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis and his wife Michelle Prince are the co-chairs of the event.
"Building a new hospital is very involved, it not as simple as saying let's put up a building," said Francis speaking on AM800's the Morning Drive.. "There are so many other pieces that are required from the building to the equipment."
Prince has been battling stage 4 colon cancer for the last three years and she has witnessed the highly skilled doctors and good nurses at work.
"They deserve to work with better for their patients and patients deserve better. We have facilities that need to be upgraded and equipment that needs to be upgraded, we have the staff that is able to work with better equipment and we just don't have it and it is our turn," says Prince.
The hospital steering committee is still waiting for approval from the province to move to the next stage in the process.
The proposed location for the new hospital is at County Rd 42 and the 9th Concession.