St. Joseph's Health Centre

St. Joseph's Health Centre

St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto
Geography
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Organisation
Care system Medicare
Hospital type Community
Services
Emergency department Yes
Beds 376
History
Founded 1921
Links
Website http://www.stjoe.on.ca

St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto is a large Catholic community teaching hospital in western Toronto. It is located west of downtown, along the Lake Ontario shore at 30 The Queensway, the intersection of The Queensway and Sunnyside Avenue, just west of Roncesvalles Avenue. It was founded in 1921 by the Sisters of St. Joseph order, which had earlier opened St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, on the site of an orphanage.

Overview

St. Joseph's Health Centre receives more than 97,000 emergency room visits every year, and sees more than 272,000 visits in its outpatient ambulatory care clinics. More than 21,000 patients are admitted to a hospital bed every year, with an average stay of five to six days and an occupancy rate of 90%. Yearly, more than 3,000 children are born at St. Joseph's. Over 160,000 diagnostic imaging procedures are done ever year and more than 30,000 surgeries.[1]

St. Joseph's is affiliated with the University of Toronto and accepts placement trainees in various specialties. Trainees are placed through U of T, and include students of other university medical programs. Over 800 trainees are placed at St. Joseph's and 200 faculty members at U of T. The medical education program is administered by the Department of Medical Education & Scholarship.[2] St. Joseph's also accepts nursing trainees from universities and colleges.[3]

Services

The Women's, Children's and Family Health Program launched the St. Joseph's Urban Family Health Team (UFHT) at 27 Roncesvalles Ave.[4] 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.

The Emergency Clinic is located on the west side of the hospital, on Glendale Avenue. It is a streamed clinic, with adults streamed into one clinic, and children into another. St. Joseph's wait times are regularly monitored by the Ontario Ministry of Health. In 2012, St. Joseph's Health Centre had one of the lowest wait times in Ontario to see a doctor. The Ambulatory Clinic is a day-time clinic for non-emergency visits for patients needing immediate medical attention. The Ambulatory Clinic is also located in the Glendale wing.

History

The original site at Sunnyside Avenue, and The Queensway, was the site of the 1800s Sunnyside Villa and farm, a home of John George Howard, surveyor of Toronto. The Sacred Heart Orphanage was built on the site, operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph order. In 1921, the City of Toronto was considering expropriating the orphanage for a public high school. The order decided to convert part of the orphanage into a hospital to prevent expropriation, and St. Joseph's was founded.[5]

In 1939, the Sisters of St. Joseph moved its Mercy Hospital for Incurables long-term care hospital to a new facility north of St. Joseph's Hospital proper. Known as Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, it operated independently until 1980, when it was merged with St. Joseph's Hospital. The Our Lady of Mercy Wing, as it was known, was demolished in 2007. In 2012, the replacement Our Lady of Mercy Wing opened. It is a 130,000 square feet (12,000 m2) four-storey building housing a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a Paediatric Unit, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, an expanded Family Birthing Centre, and three new inpatient areas housing a total of 92 beds.

Notable dates

Transportation access

St. Joseph's Hospital is served by the 501 Queen streetcar line. The 501 streetcar line has a stop outside the main doors on The Queensway. From the Dundas West subway station, the 504 King streetcar stops at Queen Street/The Queensway one block to the east, on Roncesvalles Avenue. The 504 streetcar also stops at Marion Street and Roncesvalles, one block to the east of the hospital. From Keele subway station, the Queensway bus stops on Parkside Drive two blocks west of the hospital.

St. Joseph's operates two pay parking garages for patients, staff and visitors to the facility. A large above-ground parking garage is located at the corner of The Queensway and Sunnyside Avenue. An underground parking garage is located beneath the Our Lady of Mercy Wing, and is accessible from Sunnyside, north of The Queensway. Parking on surrounding streets in the adjacent residential neighbourhood is discouraged and limited. Parking on several streets surrounding the hospital is by permit only. Other streets' parking regulations vary, some disallowing non-permit parking between the hours of midnight and 10 AM. Parking on those streets is limited to one hour at a time from 10 AM to 6 PM and evenings. The parking enforcement officers of the Toronto Police Service are diligent about ticketing vehicles not following the regulations on the surrounding streets.

Controversy

In 2011, a senior citizen was violently beaten and assaulted by security guards at the health centre.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-man-78-says-he-was-injured-by-hospital-staff-1.1064562

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References

  1. ↑ "At a Glance | St. Joseph's Health Centre Toronto". Stjoe.on.ca. March 8, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Medical Education". St. Joseph's Health Centre. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Nursing". St. Joseph's Health Centre. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Family Health Team | St. Joseph's Health Centre Toronto". Stjoe.on.ca. October 4, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  5. ↑ "History of St. Joseph's Health Centre". St. Joseph's Health Centre. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ "History of St. Joseph's Health Centre | St. Joseph's Health Centre Toronto". Stjoe.on.ca. August 22, 2012. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  7. 1 2 "Historic Milestones". Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto. Retrieved October 24, 2013.

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Coordinates: 43°38′24″N 79°27′01″W / 43.639957°N 79.450271°W / 43.639957; -79.450271

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