St Josephs Health Centre (Toronto)

Name :

St Josephs Health Centre (Toronto)

Address  :

30 The Queensway

Town  :

Toronto

State  :

Ontario

Country  :

CANADA

Post Code:

M6R 1B5

Phone  :

416 530 6000

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

patientrelations@stjoe.on.ca

Description

About Us
As the President and CEO of St Josephs Health Centre I would like to welcome you to our website

For more than 80 years St Josephs Health Centre has served the health care needs of the diverse communities of South West Toronto Our Mission is founded in the legacy of the Sisters of St Joseph and we are proud that we are able to continue their tradition of care that reflects the universal values of respect dignity and compassion Anchored by our Values we reach out with the healing ministry of Christ to the sick the disenfranchised and the disadvantaged

As a community teaching hospital the health care professionals of SJHC are committed to providing you with the highest quality of patient family and community focused health care services when you need them most We are here for you 24 hours a day 365 days a year

At St Josephs our Vision is to be Canadas Best Community Teaching Hospital Students from a wide variety of health care professions choose us for the unique learning opportunities that we are able to provide Our staff support and encourage students as they learn how to deliver the best care to meet the needs of our patients their families and the communities that we serve We are known by our partners in education as a rich learning environment for future health care professionals With them we have helped to produce some extraordinary professionals that are truly committed to clinical excellence

At St Josephs we have a saying Many Faces One Mission This speaks to the diversity of the people that we serve and those who serve with us We are here for you when you need us most and we are committed to continuing to provide our patients their families and the communities that we serve with outstanding health care

If you are interested in more information about our programs and services please visit the programs section on our Web site If you are interested in joining our innovative team and want to learn more about career opportunities at St Josephs please visit our online Careers section

Mission
St Josephs Health Centre is a Catholic community teaching hospital providing health care services that reflect the Gospel values of respect dignity and compassion We are committed to fostering a healthy community for all Working in partnership with our community we reach out with the healing ministry of Christ to the sick the disenfranchised and the disadvantaged

Vision
Our Vision is to be Canadas Best Community Teaching Hospital

Values
As a Catholic hospital we believe that life is sacred from the moment of conception until death because God has given life to us in trust

Recognition of the gifted nature of human life has profound implications for the ways in which we treat each other and how we care for every patient while maintaining the integrity and courage to remain faithful to ourselves

For those who are not part of the Catholic religion or do not believe in God this belief translates into respect dignity and compassion universally accepted human values that can be practiced regardless of religion We practice

Human Dignity
Each person is valued as a unique individual with a right to respect and acceptance

Excellence
A commitment to strive for the best in care education research and the quality of work life

Compassion
A quality of presence and caring that fosters healing and wholeness

Social Responsibility
Actions that promote the just use of resources entrusted to us for the enhancement of human life both personally and corporately

Community of Service
Communities of people working together in a climate of mutual support that enable healing and the fulfillment of human potential

History

1920s
A view of St Josephs Health Centre in 1907 St Josephs Hospital was founded in 1921 as a result of two circumstances The first was the need for health care in the west end of Toronto The second was that the city fathers were interested in expropriating the Sacred Heart Orphanages property for a new high school Knowing that the fathers could not expropriate a hospital the Sisters of St Joseph decided to transform their orphanage into a hospital

In 1921 one wing of the orphanage was converted into a 25bed facility and on October 19 the first patient Mr Cornelius Murphy was admitted to St Josephs Hospital Renovations were undertaken and by 1925 St Josephs had become a modern 112bed facility

1930s
St Josephs Health Centre in 1930 The East Wing was built in 1931 raising St Josephs Hospitals bed capacity from 112 to 300 The addition gave the hospital modern emergency facilities and included operating rooms and obstetrical facilities

As the decade wore on and the St Josephs Nursing School grew so did their need for space In 1935 the Sunnyside Wing West was constructed to accommodate nursing students

It was 1939 when the Mercy Hospital for Incurables also owned and operated by the Sisters of St Joseph was relocated to the property adjacent to St Josephs Hospital on Sunnyside Avenue

1940s
The Our Lady of Mercy building which has since been torn downTo cope with the increased number of patients the Frederick Morrow Wing was opened in 1949 This brought the bed capacity up to 600 and supplied much needed administrative space

This same year St Josephs opened the first Paediatric department in any hospital in Toronto outside of the Hospital for Sick Children

1950s
When it was 25 years old the St Josephs School of Nursing was registered as an approved school under the Nursing Act of 1951 and by 1955 the Sunnyside East Wing was ready for occupancy with accommodation for 265 student nurses

To give a snapshot view of the number of patients the hospital was serving during this time the statistics for 1958 show 19500 patients were admitted and 3500 major and 4000 minor operations were performed

1960s
In September 1960 the Glendale Wing opened increasing the bed capacity only slightly but providing much needed administrative and service areas and several new departments

The 1960s were also a time of rapid development with the addition of many new and innovative programs In 1962 the first Intensive Care Unit in Toronto was opened at St Josephs In 1969 St Josephs became the first hospital in Canada to initiate total parenteral nutrition and the first in Metropolitan Toronto to establish a Pharmacy Unit Dose System

St Josephs Research Foundation the first in Toronto was incorporated in May 1964 at the instigation to make the benefits of research available to all members of St Josephs staff

1970s
In 1971 St Josephs Hospital celebrated its golden jubilee commemorating 50 years of providing health care to the west end community

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau visited St Josephs as his 1972 election campaign swung through Toronto Trudeau addressed a group of staff and student nurses who filled the auditorium He told the group quotSociety could not exist without people caring for other people without looking after each otherquot He continued to say that nurses meet the main emotions of society each day in their work joy sorrow and optimism for the future of the country

1980s
St Josephs Hospital and Our Lady of Mercy Hospital merged into a single organization in 1980 becoming St Josephs Health Centre The reason for this merger was improved patient care more effective use of scarce resources and continuing service to the community The Justina M Barnicke Wing was opened in June 1989 to connect the two facilities

The first Birthing Coach Program in Canada was started at St Josephs Health Centre in 1983 That same year St Josephs opened the first Detoxification Unit in Ontario that provided care for women as well as men

1990s and 2000s
Volunteers pose infront of the main entrance of St Josephs Health Centre as it appears today The 1990s have seen the health care industry undergo tremendous change and move toward a model of communitybased care that St Josephs has always embraced The Health Centre was the first hospital in Ontario to grant privileges to midwives to perform inhospital deliveries was the first hospital in Canada to implement routine cardiac diagnostic blood testing for Troponin I and on May 20th 1995 made history when a Health Centre team performed their first lung reduction surgery

In 1999 the Ontario Ministry of Health approved funding for a multiyear St Josephs Health Centre redevelopment and renewal project A centerpiece of that project the Vera and Ferdinand Melnyk Pavilion at the Main Entrance of the Health Centre was opened in 2006 The same year the Mental Health and Addictions Program moved to a brand new inpatient area on the Health Centres 7th floor

In 2007 the Health Centre added four new outpatient clinics in the Ambulatory Care Centre ACC The clinics which offer assessments diagnosis treatment and therapy for patients and members of our community now include the Asthma Clinic Heart Failure Clinic Polypharmacy Clinic AntiCoagulation Clinic and the Chiropody Clinic

That same year the ACC also opened the Falls Prevention Clinic Developed in partnership with the Mary MacCormack Recreation Centre of the City of Toronto Elderly Community Health Services and Toronto Public Health the Falls Clinic operates from a local community centre providing education and treatment to the frail elderly

The Womens Childrens and Family Health Program launched the St Josephs Urban Family Health Team UFHT at 27 Roncesvalles Ave 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

St Josephs Health Centre was also chosen by the Ministry of Health and LongTerm Care to receive full funding for a Critical Care Response Team The team is called REACT Rapid Evaluation amp Acute Care Team The Team responds to sick or deteriorating patients admitted to the Health Centre with a goal to improve patient outcomes

In 2007 St Josephs also started the multimillion redevelopment project Click here for the latest updates on our new Our Lady of Mercy patient care wing In the spring of 2009 we opened our new underground parking garage The new patient care wing is being built on top of the garage which will accomodate parking for 300 cars when the building opens The new garage is currently only open for staff parking while the new wing is being built

Our planned 73 million development is expected to be completed by 2012 Named after the former Our Lady of Mercy Hospital the new patient care wing will provide the highest quality of care closer to home for our tiniest patients in a stateoftheart Neonatal Intensive Care Unit a new Paediatric Unit and an expanded Family Birthing Centre