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Health Sciences North
Horizon Santé-Nord (HSN)
North East Local Health Integration Network
Health Sciences North is located in Ontario
Health Sciences North
Location in Ontario
Geography
Location41 Ramsey Lake Road, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Organization
Care systemPublic Medicare (Canada) (OHIP)
FundingPublic hospital
TypeTeaching
Affiliated universityCambrian College,
Collège Boréal,
Lakehead University,
Laurentian University,
Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds454
HelipadTC LID: CSL8
History
Opened1997
Links
Websitewww.hsnsudbury.ca
ListsHospitals in Canada

Health Sciences North (HSN) is a hospital located on 41 Ramsey Lake Road in the city of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It is the only trauma centre in Northern Ontario (else require transfer to trauma centres in Southern or Eastern Ontario) and Manitoba (no trauma centre in that province).

HSN, formerly the Sudbury Regional Hospital (SRH), was established in the 1990s as part of provincial health care restructuring program by the Mike Harris government. The city formerly had three community hospitals, Sudbury General (completed in 1950), Sudbury Memorial (completed in 1956), and Laurentian Hospital (completed in 1975), and one mental health and community service facility, Sudbury Algoma Hospital. The three hospitals officially amalgamated in 1997 to form one corporation, the Hôpital Régional de Sudbury Regional Hospital (HRSRH), but remained a multi-site facility. In November 2011, the SRH was renamed "Health Sciences North" as the hospital evolved into a academic research centre, as well as a hospital.

Services

Health Sciences North employs 3,898 people, 270 physicians and has 586 volunteers - it is the largest employer in Sudbury. In a typical year the hospital sees 328,207 outpatients, 61,540 people in the emergency department and admits 22,633 people.[1]

Services include:[2]

Abduction incident

On November 1, 2007, a Kirkland Lake woman, Brenda Batisse, abducted a newborn baby girl from the SRH's St. Joseph's Health Care Centre site shortly before 1 p.m. The hospital immediately went into lock-down. A province-wide AMBER Alert was issued, and all highways leading out of the city were roadblocked. Batisse had already passed a roadblock location. She was subsequently arrested at her home in Kirkland Lake at 8:30 p.m.,[3] and the baby was returned to her mother unharmed.

Batisse, an Anishinaabe who had been physically, sexually and emotionally abused by several relatives throughout her childhood, had no prior criminal record and an extenuating mental health background — according to trial testimony, Batisse abducted the baby because her own pregnancy ended in a miscarriage shortly after she was physically assaulted in the summer of 2007, and she feared that her boyfriend would leave her if he found out.[4]

Batisse was eventually sentenced to five years in prison for the abduction.[5] On February 5, 2009, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that the sentence was not consistent with the principles established by the Supreme Court of Canada around the sentencing of First Nations offenders, and reduced her sentence from five to 2.5 years.[4]

References

  1. ^ Backgrounders and Publications
  2. ^ Programs and Services
  3. ^ "Baby OK, one arrest; Kirkland Lake woman to be charged in infant abduction trauma", Sudbury Star, November 2, 2007.
  4. ^ a b "Woman who abducted newborn has sentence reduced", Toronto Star, February 5, 2009.
  5. ^ "Baby-abductor sentenced to five years in jail", Northern Life, June 19, 2008.
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