Grand River Hospital
835 King St. West & 3570 King St. East, Kitchener
www.grandriverhospital.on.ca
www.grhf.org/
www.grhf.org/_grrcc/new_site
About Grand River Hospital
Grand River Hospital is a 495 bed comprehensive community hospital that provides patient-centered care to more than 450,000 residents in the Region of Waterloo and the surrounding communities. The hospital provides programs at several sites including Freeport Health Centre, K-W Health Centre and the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre. By "Caring Together" the hospital’s 2500 professional staff and 800 volunteers will ensure that Grand River Hospital's proud tradition of meeting the health care needs of the community, since 1895, will continue into the future.
ROLE: http://www.grandriverhospital.on.ca/mission.cfm
Our Role is to provide the community with:
- 24/7 medical and surgical services
- Cancer care
- Complex continuing care and rehabilitation
- Diagnostics
- Childbirth and children's services
- Mental health services
History: http://www.grandriverhospital.on.ca/know.cfm
K-W Hospital was first established in 1895 as the Berlin-Waterloo Hospital. Seventy patients were cared for in its first year. The 30-bed facility had one operating room, a handful of nurses, and a dozen physicians. The hospital's School of Nursing opened the following year and trained more than 1400 nurses before closing 80 years later.
Freeport Hospital first began as a tuberculosis sanatorium. Following medical advances and altered treatment of tuberculosis after World War II, Freeport began admitting chronic care and rehabilitation patients. It was the first facility in the province to initiate a move into this direction of care. During the 1960s, the need for chronic care beds continued to grow resulting in the addition of more beds, and by 1970 the Freeport Sanatorium became Freeport Hospital.
While Grand River Hospital has a rich history of quality care-giving, we believe our future will be even more impressive. Your community hospital will provide new and expanded services to our rapidly growing community's health care needs. During the next few years, we look forward to offering the following:
- A new inpatient oncology unit with an increase of six patient beds
- A new ambulatory care centre
- A new mental health unit which includes, a crisis assessment facility, day hospital and child and adolescent inpatient psychiatry unit
- A new, spacious intensive care unit with an additional 8 patient beds
- A new brachytherapy surgical suite to treat appropriate cancer patients by administering radiation internally
- A new and expanded fracture clinic
2008 - 2009 Community Update: http://www.grhf.org/GRH_Annual_08-09_FINAL.pdf
Revenue: 281,036,000
Expenses: 281,539,000
Surplus (Deficit) from Operations (503,000)
Building Grants and Donations 6,181,000
Building Amortization (7,066,000)
Hospital Surplus (Deficit) $ (1,388,000)
Admissions: 21,971
Births: 4,297
Day surgery visits: 12,715
Emergency visits: 57,445
Ambulatory care visits: 201,681
Full and Part-Time Staff: 2983
Medical Staff: 556
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From Kitchener-Waterloo | Member Since Dec 2009 | 5,681 Posts#203-24-2010 05:49 AMGRH approves budget
570 News Mar 23, 2010 15:16:57 PM - http://www.570news.com/news/local/ar...pproves-budget
Grand River Hospital has approved a 300 million dollar budget contingent on a two per cent increase in provincial funding.
The budget is worth about 10 million dollars more than last year.
Items that account for the increase are salaries, excluding executives making more than 150 thousand dollars a year, who will not get a pay hike.
Supply and drug costs are also going up, with the cost of cancer medications rising 15 per cent.
President Malcolm Maxwell says that if they do not get a two percent increase in government funding, they will be forced to make service reductions.
The hospital already announced layoffs for 34 nursing and service staff in November to help eliminate its deficit. -
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From Kitchener | Member Since Jan 2010 | 1,162 Posts#303-31-2010 08:30 AM
Grand River Hospital fundraiser going door to door
March 31, 2010 | Johanna Weidner | The Record
KITCHENER — Grand River Hospital is sending canvassers to homes in Kitchener and Waterloo to talk about its services to hopefully attract more monthly donors.
The goal of the campaign, which started this week and will last a few months, is to sign up 300 new monthly donors to the hospital’s foundation.
“We’re not looking for donations at the door,” said Jane Jamieson, associate director of the foundation. “It’s to provide information about the hospital.”
The hospital ran a smaller scale trial of the fundraising effort last fall to recruit about 150 monthly donors. It currently has 360.
Signing up for automatic monthly contributions is easy for the donor — cutting out mailing costs and memory work — and allows the hospital to count on a certain level of support.
“It’s a really simple way to donate,” Jamieson said.
The dollars raised are earmarked mainly to buy medical equipment essential to patient care, such as MRI upgrades and pain pumps.
Canvassers — wearing photo identification — will talk for just a few minutes and offer material people can read if they want to learn more about the hospital’s programs and services.
Anyone wanting to make a cash donation or more information can call the foundation office at 519-749-4205 or email info@grhf.org. More information can also be found online at www.grhf.org.
Door-to-door fundraising is a novel approach for local hospitals never tried before by St. Mary’s General Hospital or Cambridge Memorial. -
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From Kitchener-Waterloo | Member Since Dec 2009 | 5,681 Posts#409-02-2011 04:28 PM
Ontario Government Dedicates $13M to Improve Patient Care At Grand River Hospital
McGuinty Government Providing Families With Better Services In Waterloo Region
September 2, 2011 | Grand River Hospital | PDF
Ontario is expanding services at Grand River Hospital to ensure local residents have better access to the quality care they need, close to home.
With support from the province, the hospital will be able to provide care for more patients in expanded programs that include mental health, intensive care, ambulatory care and surgical services. This increased capacity will help to decrease wait times for patients who seek care.
Grand River Hospital’s redevelopment project will provide more services in the following areas:
- Acute adult mental health (eight additional beds)
- Child and adolescent inpatient mental health program (4 additional beds)
- Intensive Care Unit (6 additional beds)
- Operating rooms
- Ambulatory care
- Medicine (30 additional beds)
Under the province’s ReNew Ontario infrastructure investment plan, the Ontario government and its partners are investing in modern and efficient hospitals that support the needs of our aging and diversifying population and giving families peace of mind knowing they have reliable health services close to home.
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“The investment and redevelopment of Grand River Hospital provides the staff, doctors and volunteers with an improved and modern health care environment. I'm thrilled that, with today's announcement, Grand River hospital is going to be able to offer residents of Waterloo Region better access to high quality care.”
- John Milloy, MPP for Kitchener Centre"The expansion of patient care services at the Grand River Hospital is great news for our community. I am very excited because the redevelopment of our local hospital not only results in better access to reliable and quality healthcare for our residents, it is also a significant investment in the modernization of patient care services at our hospitals."
- Leeanna Pendergast, MPP for Kitchener-Conestoga“We are delighted to receive this funding. This really illustrates a strong commitment from the Ontario Government to ensure that patients are able to access vital services when needed. It will go a long way in helping us provide exceptional care for more patients in our new, expanded care spaces.”
- Malcolm Maxwell, GRH President and CEOQUICK FACTS“The wonderful modern facility will enhance the patient experience at Grand River Hospital. The additional funding enables the doctors, staff and volunteers to provide ongoing highquality care for their patients and their loved ones.”
Bruce Lauckner, CEO, Waterloo Wellington Local Health Integration Network
- Ontario is providing Grand River Hospital with $13,117,500 in annual operating funding
- Next year Ontario will to invest approximately $1.3 billion to help modernize the province’s health infrastructure.
- Construction is moving forward or complete for more than 100 major hospital redevelopment projects across the province since 2003.
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Town Member
From Kitchener, Ontario | Member Since Apr 2010 | 101 Posts#509-03-2011 08:24 PMNothing like a major funding announcement 96 hours before the election campaign starts.
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Metropolis Member
From West-South-West Kitchener | Member Since May 2010 | 1,278 Posts#609-03-2011 11:36 PMIt's the time-worn prerogative of every incumbent government since time immemorial, I believe.
Originally Posted by isUsername
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Metropolis Member
From DOWNTOWN | Member Since Mar 2010 | 1,465 Posts#709-04-2011 11:03 AM
Good news, but if $13.1 million represents our pre-election "major announcement", I'm afraid it may be pretty slim pickings for the Region in this election.
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Member Since Jul 2010 | 1,322 Posts#809-04-2011 01:48 PMThe highway 8 expansion has been essentially finished for several months now, yet the barriers have not been removed. I wouldn't be surprised if the premier were to make a visit in town soon for the official opening of that stretch of road. Originally Posted by panamaniac
Good news, but if $13.1 million represents our pre-election "major announcement", I'm afraid it may be pretty slim pickings for the Region in this election.
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Village Member
Member Since Dec 2010 | 99 Posts#909-04-2011 07:12 PM
They could announce this:
Hwy 7, west of Fischer-Hallman Rd easterly to east of Courtland Ave. $86,295,000, for Grading, drainage, granular base, hot mix paving, structural, high mast illumination, noise barriers and ATMS. Hwy 7 from 1.9km west of Fischer-Hallman Rd easterly to 0.8km east of Courtland Ave, 6.5km for roads, bridges, electrical power and engineering. This is the widened and improved Conestoga Parkway. -
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From Waterloo, ON | Member Since Apr 2010 | 837 Posts#1012-04-2011 03:39 PM
Parking at hospitals, should there be exemptions?
December 3, 2011 | 570 News | Link
The issue of who should be paying for parking at hospitals is one that keeps being raised.
The fact is that maintenance of parking structures is expensive and someone has to pay for it. The Director of Communications at Grand River Hospital, Mark Karjaluoto tells 570News Gary Doyle Show that as of right now, volunteers are the only staff who are exempt from paying to park at hospitals.
Karjaluoto says that parking rates are in line with the municipalities.
"We've tried to set them up to be basically in line with what the municipalities or what the Universities would charge for them and we think it's generally working."
"Now obviously they are providing their services for free, so it makes some sense to make sure that they have some free parking."
Karjaluoto adds that part of the revenue they take in from parking fees, goes into maintenance.
"We take in about $2.4 million dollars are year in parking revenue. Than we spend about $1 million of that on maintenance a year. Now, on the flip side one of the things that we are going to have to do over the next few years is spend a lot of money maintaining the garage that we have at the K-W site. That's because it's a concrete structure and concrete structures age and need care to last for a number of years."
Karjaluoto says they plan on spending 2.8 million dollars over the next five years on the K-W site structure, and hope to get another 15 to 20 years out of it.Visit my Youth Blog: wonderfulwaterloo.com/youth & email me at: youth@wonderfulwaterloo.com
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