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St Michaels Hospital |
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Toronto |
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Ontario |
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Canada |
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M5B 1W8 |
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416 360 4000 |
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Specialization Of St Michaels Hospital
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Obestetrician/Gynecologist |
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About St Michaels Hospital
** The St. Michael's Story **
In 1892, in an old Baptist church on Bond Street, was Notre Dame des Anges, a boarding house for working women operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph. A diphtheria epidemic was sweeping Toronto and the city's hard-pressed medical officer of health issued an appeal to the Sisters. The Sisters answered the call to service and founded St. Michael's Hospital.
The Hospital opened it's doors with a bed capacity of 26 and a staff of six doctors and four graduate nurses. Within a year, accommodation was increased to include two large wards and an emergency department. By 1912, bed capacity reached 300, and a five-room operating suite was added.
As early as 1894, St. Michael's Hospital received medical students and, in 1920, negotiated a formal agreement with the faculty of medicine at the University of Toronto that continues to this day.
Between 1892 and 1974, St. Michael's school of nursing graduated 81 classes, totalling 5,177 graduates. The school was closed in 1974 when nursing education was moved into the province's community college system. Thereafter, the Hospital opened a school for medical record librarians, the first in Canada, and also participated in the preparation of dietitians and X-ray and laboratory technologists.
As Toronto grew and expanded, so did the Hospital. Ongoing physical expansion, most prominent in the 1960s, increased the original 26 bed facility to a high of 900 beds.
** Mission **
At St. Michael's we recognize the value of every person and are guided by our commitment to excellence and leadership.
* We provide exemplary physical, emotional and spiritual care for each of our
patients and their families.
* We balance the continued commitment to the care of the poor and those most in
need with the provision of highly specialized services to a broader
community.
* We build a work environment where each person is valued, respected and has an
opportunity for personal and professional growth.
* We advance excellence in health services education.
* We foster a culture of discovery in all of our activities and supporting
exemplary health sciences research.
* We strengthen our relationships with universities, colleges, other hospitals,
agencies and our community.
* We demonstrate social responsibility through the just use of our resources
** Our Values **
Our Values
Our Values represent the philosophy and beliefs of our organization, guiding all of our decisions and actions.
* Human Dignity
We value each person as a unique individual with a right to be respected and accepted.
* Excellence
We value quality in care, work life, education and research.
* Compassion
We value a quality of presence and caring that accepts people as they are and fosters healing and wholeness.
* Social Responsibility
We value integrity and the promotion of the just use of resources entrusted to us for the enhancement of human life.
* Community of Service
We value a work climate of mutual trust and harmony to enable healing, collaboration and the fulfillment of human potential.
* Pride of Achievement
We value our colleagues, our work and our accomplishments and take pride in bringing our rich tradition of hope and healing to every person in our care.
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History Of St Michaels Hospital
In 1892, in an old Baptist church on Bond Street, was Notre Dame des Anges, a boarding house for working women operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph. As with many other cities of its time, a diphtheria epidemic was sweeping Toronto and the hard-pressed medical officer of health issued an appeal to the Sisters. The Sisters answered the call to service and founded St. Michael's Hospital.
The Hospital began with a bed capacity of 26 and a staff of six doctors and four graduate nurses. Within a year, accommodation was increased to include two large wards and an emergency department. By 1912, bed capacity reached 300, and a five-room operating suite was added.
As early as 1894, St. Michael's Hospital received medical students and in 1920 negotiated a formal agreement with the faculty of medicine at the University of Toronto that continues to this day.
Between 1892 and 1974, St. Michael's school of nursing graduated 81 classes, totalling 5,177 graduates. The school was closed in 1974 when nursing education was moved into the community college system. Thereafter, the Hospital opened a school for medical record librarians, one of the first, and also participated in the preparation of dietitians and X-ray and laboratory technologists.
As Toronto grew and expanded, so did the Hospital. Ongoing physical expansion, most prominent in the 1960s, increased the original 26 bed facility to a high of 900 beds.
In the late 1960s, as ambulatory (outpatient) care became more advanced, the number of inpatient beds was reduced.
Since the establishment of St. Michael's Hospital as a corner stone of the downtown Toronto medical community over a hundred years ago, there have been many significant milestones. In the years to come, many more are anticipated.
October 2007 - We announce a $20 million contribution toward the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute. The funds, $15 million from the federal government and $5 million from private donors Arthur and Sonia Labatt, will support the Knowledge Institute. Slated to open in 2010, the new facility will focus on developing novel therapies and better ways to bring best practices and research discoveries to patient bedsides faster than ever before.
August 2007 - Dr. Alan Lossing becomes the first surgeon in the city to treat a potentially fatal aneurysm of both the chest and the abdomen using minimally invasive surgery that saw the patient released from hospital and walking within days.
November 2006 - We welcome the National Film Board of Canada and the Filmmaker in Residence project. Director Kat Cizek begins a two-year residency working alongside frontline doctors, nurses and researchers to create media for social change.
February 2006 - Dr. Robert Chisholm performs a North American first by implanting an antibody-coated stent into a cardiac patient. The stent - an innovation in cardiac technology - was developed by Dr. Michael Kutryk, also of St. Michael's Hospital.
November 2005 - We announce the inaugural Canadian donation of $25 million from the Li Ka Shing (Canada) Foundation (LKSCF) to establish the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute. The state of the art facility is scheduled for completion in 2010. It will house the Keenan Research Centre and the Li Ka Shing International Centre in Health Care Education.
November 2005 - With a $13 million donation for the Keenan Research Centre, Toronto businessman Patrick Keenan and his wife Barbara's cumulative contributions to the Hospital's research practice have exceeded $25 million.
March 2005 - World's first gene therapy trial for pulmonary hypertension conducted.
February 2005 - First international surgical eye-care mission to the Philippines.
TIME Canada launches a special 20-page supplement that takes readers on an unforgettable two week long journey through the Hospital, following patients and staff through the emergency department and trauma room, the birth of a baby and a complex cardiac surgery.
January 2005 - First in North America, we develops a CIHR training program in the transdisciplinary approach to the health of marginalized populations.
November 2004 - The Fracture Clinic opens to better integrate care with the Martin Family Centre and create a one-stop shop for orthopedic care.
July 2004 - The first phase of a five-phase plan to implement Project Gemini, an electronic patient care system, begins. At the completion of the first phase, the Hospital is able to view patient results and diagnostic images with web technologies.
July 2004 - Renovations to expand the cardiovascular ICU to 18 beds are complete, building on the Hospital's capacity as Canada's largest provider of adult critical care beds.
June 2004 - The board approves the 2004 Strategic Plan, Reaching New Heights, which states that St. Michael's Hospital, through its culture of caring and discovery, will be Canada's finest academic health care provider.
November 2003 - Official opening of the Volunteer Association Helipad, one of only four rooftop hospital helipads in Ontario.
June 2003 - The Terence Donnelly Day Surgery Centre opens. The centre provides integrated perioperative services all on one floor and includes a 10-bed ambulatory recovery room, and 39 patient care areas designed to feel like a comfortable living room.
October 2002 - First International Conference on Inner City Health Research: Improving the Health of the Disadvantaged.
September 2001 - We are the first hospital in Canada to administer a camera capsule endoscopy procedure.
June 2000 - Our surgeons successfully complete Ontario's first live-donor kidney retrieval using minimally-invasive surgery.
January 2000 - Announcement of Canada's first cardiac gene therapy trial.
For the complete listing of Hospital Milestones (1892-2000), contact the public relations department at 416-864-5034.
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