The Grand Bend Area Community Health Centre has been in existence since the year 2000. The original Centre was located on Gill Road and was a Primary Care facility. The Wellness Centre on Highway 21 housed the Physiotherapy Department and the Community Health Centre Programs. To better serve the growing Community of Grand Bend, a new Centre was erected in 2004.
In the summer of 1999, the Health Centre's new Board of Directors began to look at the task of creating a completely new health care facility for the Grand Bend area. A Facilities Committee was organized, and one of the first priorities was to find a site for the new building. The land on Highway 81 was accepted as the most favourable of the locations reviewed.
The proposal for a new Community Health Centre was delivered to the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. In May 1999, the Government announced that Grand Bend would be the recipient of capital funding for the new Health Centre facility. In September 2001, a preliminary design and budget was submitted to the Ministry, with final drawings to follow in December. By the spring of 2002, the Ministry agreed to fund the construction in the amount of $2, 874,000. The Grand Bend Area Health Services Foundation was established with a mandate to raise funds to cover costs such as landscaping, furniture, and equipment not funded by the government.
On April 19, 2003, the sod turning for construction of the new facility was officially attended by MPP's Helen Johns and Marcel Beaubien, Lambton Shores Mayor Cam Ivey, and the Board Chairman Don Tedford.