Ontario to licence 4 private orthopedic surgery clinics next year: Jones

Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones speaks at a news conference on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025.

The province says early next year it will be issuing licences to four new community surgical and diagnostic centres to perform orthopedic surgeries in Ontario.

The move is part of the Ford government’s plan to spend $125 million over the next two years to ramp up orthopedic surgeries at private clinics, allowing the centres to perform publicly funded surgeries for hip and knee replacements.

“By expanding orthopedic surgery capacity across Ontario, we are redoubling our efforts to reduce wait times and get more people access to life-changing procedures sooner, helping them regain mobility, reduce pain and return to the activities they love,” Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones said in a news release.

The move, the province says, will reduce wait times for hip and knee surgeries and will support “up to 20,000 additional publicly funded orthopedic surgeries.”

The announcement was made at the OV Surgical Centre in Toronto on Monday afternoon.

In addition to OV, the province says other licences will go to Academic Orthopedic Surgical Associates of Ottawa (AOAO), Windsor Orthopedic Surgical Centre, and Schroeder Ambulatory Centre.