Hopital Notre-Dame Hospital

Name :

Hopital Notre-Dame Hospital

Address  :

1405 Edward Street
Postal Bag 8000

Town  :

Hearst

State  :

Ontario

Country  :

CANADA

Post Code:

P0L 1N0

Phone  :

705 362 4291

Fax  :

705 372 2923

Web URL  :

Available

Description

MISSION
We are committed to providing the population with primary care services and to offering our health care partners the necessary support in French and in English in accordance with the mandate and funding provided by the Local Health Integration Network LHIN

VISION
Through a competent and dynamic team supported by stateoftheart technology we are committed to innovate and offer the best health care services possible to the clients we serve

History

From 1922 to 1954 St Pauls
St Pauls Hospital was opened for patients in 1922 and was a very modest building even compared with the outmoded structure of the present day It owed its origin chiefly to a lady connected with the Presbyterian Church of Canada

From 1954 to present NotreDame

The hospital was for sale in 1953 Funds were lacking for the upkeep no help was given by the municipality and there was a great number of indigents in the region

Bishops Request

In 1953 Mgr Louis Levesque the catholic bishop of the Hearst Diocese aware that this area would be without the urgent and necessary help for the sick requested the Sisters of Charity of Providence to come to the rescue and buy St Pauls Hospital Negotiations continued for a whole year The inventory was taken and the hospital was purchased for 85 000 The Sisters of Charity of Providence took over June 1 1954 A hospital owned by them in St Agathe in the Province of Quebec was closed in order to staff NotreDame Hospital in Hearst Ontario

The first Founders were

Sr GermaineTheacuteregravese Germaine Bourgoin

Sr Joseph Sarto Iregravene Cormier

Sr MarieDorotheacutee Antoinette Poirier

Sr MarieIldefonce Angegravele GeacuterinLajoie

Sr LeacuteonMarie MarieJeanne Labrecque

Sr Bibiane RoseAimeacutee Crecircte et

Sr Charles de la Providence ReineAlice Charette

In 1969 the physical facility must be extensively renovated and expanded or a new construction must be considered A decision is made to construct a new NotreDame Hospital at a cost of four million dollars The onesixth share which must be raised locally is secured from the Sisters of Providence and the transfer to the new hospital is effectuated on May 1 1972

NotreDame Hospital today

NotreDame Hospital is a modern 44bed fully accreditated hospital which services a population of some 10 000 people divided up in a radius of 50 kilometers east 130 kilometers west and 80 kilometers northsouth

Seven members of the medical staff are supported by two locum tenens surgeons six locum tenens in Emergency three radiologists from the Timmins and District Hospital a pathologist and a cardiologist who are offering their services on a regular basis Furthermore to better service the Hearst and surrounding communities NotreDame Hospital now offers visiting specialty clinics such as allergy cardiology gynecology internal medicine oncology orthopaedic pediatric and urology

Adjacent to the hospital there is a Medical Centre which accommodates solo practitioners the Health Unit and the Home Care Program

All in all NotreDame Hospital is a modern wellstaffed institution doing its best to meet the health care needs of the people in a small rural community of Northern Ontario

A revised excerpt from a paper quotA Case Analysis of the Hospital Corporationquot by Mr Raymond G Lafleur December 11 1982