St. Joseph's Health Centre
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| St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto | |
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| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP) |
| Hospital type | Community |
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| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 376 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1921 |
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| Website | http://www.stjoe.on.ca |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto is a large Catholic community teaching hospital in western Toronto. It is located at 30 The Queensway, the intersection of The Queensway and Sunnyside Avenue, just west of Roncesvalles Avenue.
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[edit] Overview
The hospital had 286,157 ambulatory care visits during 2009-2010. 20,483 inpatients were admitted, with an average stay of 6 days and an occupancy rate of 89.2%. 3,129 children were born, 160,205 diagnostic imaging procedures were conducted, and 27,475 surgical and procedural cases were seen.[1]
There were 91,003 Emergency Room visits, with 15,057 patients brought in by ambulance.
[edit] Services
- Women's, Children's & Family Health
- Emergency, Critical Care & Access
- Medicine, Ambulatory & Seniors' Health
- Mental Health & Addictions
- Surgery & Oncology
- Diagnostic Imaging Services
- Laboratory Services
- Pharmacy
The Women's, Children's and Family Health Program launched the St. Joseph's Urban Family Health Team (UFHT) at 27 Roncesvalles Ave [1]. The main focus of UFHT is to improve population health by focusing on chronic disease prevention and management. It offers patient education, health promotion, disease prevention and chronic disease management programs.
[edit] History
- 1921 - St. Joseph's Hospital was founded in 1921 on the site of the Sacred Heart Orphanage. Renovations were undertaken and by 1925 St. Joseph's had become a modern 112-bed facility.[2]
- 1931 - East Wing was built in 1931, raising to 300. The addition gave the hospital modern emergency facilities and included operating rooms and obstetrical facilities.
- 1935 - Sunnyside Wing West constructed to accommodate nursing students.
- 1949 - Frederick Morrow Wing opens, increasing bed capacity up to 600 and supplying much needed administrative space.
- 1960 - Glendale Wing opens, increasing the bed capacity only slightly, but providing much needed administrative and service areas and several new departments.
- 1962 - First Intensive Care Unit in Toronto opens.
- 1980 - St. Joseph's Hospital and Our Lady of Mercy Hospital merged into a single organization in 1980, becoming St. Joseph's Health Centre.
- 1989 - Justina M. Barnicke Wing opens to connect the two facilities.
- 1995 - First lung reduction surgery performed by a Health Centre team
- 1999 - Ontario Ministry of Health approved funding for a multi-year St. Joseph's Health Centre redevelopment and renewal project.
- 2005 - Vera and Ferdinand Melnyk Pavilion at the Main Entrance of the Health Centre opens
- 2006 - Glendale House opens
- 2007 - Our Lady of Mercy building demolished as redevelopment project begins to make way for a new patient care wing
- 2009 - New underground parking garage with 300 spaces opens
[edit] Future
St. Joseph's Health Centre will celebrate the completion of its new 4-storey patient care wing by 2012. The Our Lady of Mercy Patient Care Wing will be a 130,000 sq.ft 4-storey building featuring a new state-of-the-art Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a new Paediatric Unit, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, an expanded Family Birthing Centre, and three new inpatient areas housing a total of 92 beds.
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Coordinates: 43°38′24″N 79°27′01″W / 43.639957°N 79.450271°W
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