Bethesda Regional Health Centre
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| Name = Bethesda Regional Health Centre
| Org/Group = Southern Regional Health Authority
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| location = 316 Henry Street
| region = Steinbach, Manitoba
| country = Canada
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| HealthCare = Medicare
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| beds = 73{{cite web |title= Hospital Beds Staffed and In Operation, 2020–2021 |url= https://www.cihi.ca/sites/default/files/document/beds-staffed-and-in-operation-2020-2021-en.xlsx |website= Canadian Institute for Health Information |access-date=18 April 2023}}{{cite web |title= Backgrounder: Bethesda Health Centre Health Care Improvement |url= https://www.gov.mb.ca/asset_library/BG-Steinbach_Health_Care.pdf |website= Government of Manitoba |access-date= April 14, 2023}}
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| website = [http://www.southernhealth.ca/healthsite.php?id=91 Bethesda Hospital]
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Bethesda Regional Health Centre, formerly Bethesda Hospital, is a hospital in Steinbach, Manitoba, one of seventeen hospitals operated by the Southern Health - Santé Sud Regional Health Authority. Bethesda is the largest hospital in the Eastman region. The hospital currently has 73 beds to serve the community and area, a new expansion that will add 23 beds began construction in 2023.{{cite news |title= Construction begins on new renal unit at Steinbach hospital |url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/steinbach-bethesda-regional-health-centre-renal-unit-expansion-1.6558458 |website= CBC Manitoba |date=August 22, 2022 |access-date= April 14, 2023}}
History
The first hospital in Steinbach opened in 1929 by Abram Andreas Vogt and his sister Maria and operated under the name of the Vogt Hospital.{{cite web |title= Our History |url= https://bethesdafoundation.ca/about/ |website= Bethesda Hospital Foundation |access-date= }}{{cite web |title= Memorable Manitobans: Abram Andreas Vogt (1887-1968) |url= http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/vogt_aa.shtml |website= Manitoba Historical Society |access-date= April 14, 2023}} He and his sister operated the facility which then served as a home for disabled and chronically ill patients and was taken over by a local church in 1945. The current building of the Bethesda Regional Health Centre opened in 1963 as a 63 bed facility and its name was taken from the biblical Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem where Jesus miraculously healed a paralyzed man.
The hospital underwent a $22 million upgrade to the Emergency Room in 2012.{{cite news|title=Bethesda Foundation Ups ER Funding|url=http://www.steinbachonline.com/?option=com_content&Itemid=468&catid=13&id=20420&view=article&fontstyle=f-larger|publisher=Steinbach Online |date=17 December 2010}}[http://www.mysteinbach.ca/newsblog/16036.html Steinbach’s Bethesda emergency department expansion underway]. Mysteinbach.ca, 19 June 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2012. The expansion was necessitated by the rapid population growth in the city of Steinbach and area.{{cite web |title=Bethesda Hospital Expansion, Steinbach |url=http://m.gov.mb.ca/forward/southern/sm_03.html |publisher=Government of Manitoba |accessdate=26 April 2011 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019131042/http://m.gov.mb.ca/forward/southern/sm_03.html |archivedate=19 October 2013 |df= }}{{cite web|title=Bethesda: New Name, New Director |url= http://www.steinbachonline.com/local/38386-bethesda-to-welcome-new-director|publisher=SteinbachOnline |date=17 September 2013}} A further {{CAD|23}} million expansion for the hospital began in 2023 with a westward expansion of the hospital to establish a new six-station renal dialysis unit and adding a further 15 acute care beds as well as eight surgical beds.{{cite news |title= Work begins on Bethesda Hospital expansion |author= Kenton Dyck |url= https://steinbachonline.com/articles/work-begins-on-bethesda-hospital-expansion |website= Steinbach Online |date= April 4, 2023}} A short time later, the Government of Manitoba announced another {{CAD|33}} million dollar expansion in 2023 to add three modern operating rooms in the hospital and bringing the cost of the expansion to {{CAD|64}} million.{{cite news |title= Steinbach getting 3 new operating rooms for surgeries as part of $30-M hospital expansion |url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/steinbach-surgical-centre-operating-rooms-1.6826379 |website= CBC Manitoba |date= February 28, 2023}}
Services
=Emergency room=
The emergency room at Bethesda Regional Health Centre received approximately 25,000 visits a year as of 2011 and prior to the expansion in 2012.{{cite web |title= Bethesda Emergency Department Redevelopment Moving Forward with 45,000 Square-Foot Expansion |url= https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/?item=11664 |website= Government of Manitoba |date= June 3, 2011 |access-date=April 14, 2023}}
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In 2020, 455 births took place at the hospital's obstetrics department.{{cite news |title= Midwives want more positions delivered |author= Carol Sanders |url= https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2021/05/04/midwives-want-more-positions-delivered |website= Winnipeg Free Press |date= May 4, 2021 |access-date= April 14, 2023}}
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