Grand River Hospital
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| Name = Grand River Hospital
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| Logo = Logo-grh-home.png
| Image = Grand-River-Hospital.JPG
| Caption = KW Health Centre of the Grand River Hospital
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| coordinates = {{coord|43.4564|-80.5122|display=inline,title}}
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| Location = Kitchener
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| State = Ontario
| Country = Canada
| healthcare = Medicare
| Type = General (KW), chronic care (Freeport)
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| Emergency = Yes
| Helipad = {{Airport codes||||CNK9|p=n}}
| Beds = 665
| Speciality = All
| Founded = 1995
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| Website = http://www.grhosp.on.ca/
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Grand River Hospital is a hospital{{Cite web|url=http://www.grhosp.on.ca/about|title=About GRH|publisher=Grand River Hospital}} located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.{{Cite web |url=http://www.grandriverhospital.on.ca/visitors/vis-direct.cfm |title=including Grand River Regional Cancer Centre |access-date=2011-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040304012211/http://www.grandriverhospital.on.ca/visitors/vis-direct.cfm |archive-date=2004-03-04 |url-status=dead }} The hospital operates two campuses, Kitchener-Waterloo Health Centre and Freeport Health Centre, which were independent hospitals that merged to form Grand River Hospital in April 1995.
The hospital has over 650 beds and 15 specialized programs and services: surgery, children's program, childbirth, medical imaging, mental health and addictions, withdrawal management, medicine, stroke, complex continuing care, rehabilitation, cancer, critical care, renal, emergency, pharmacy and lab. The hospital also provides renal dialysis and cancer satellite programs in Guelph, Palmerston, Fergus and Mt Forest Centre{{Cite web |url=http://www.grandriverhospital.on.ca/patient/dialysis/pat-dia-over.cfm |title=Guelph Dialysis Centre |access-date=2011-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127033022/http://www.grandriverhospital.on.ca/patient/dialysis/pat-dia-over.cfm |archive-date=2011-01-27 |url-status=dead }} in Guelph, along with the Hazelglen Outreach Mental Health service{{Cite web |url=http://www.grandriverhospital.on.ca/patient/psychiatry/pat-psych-location.cfm |title=Psychiatry and Mental Health |access-date=2011-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424064148/http://www.grandriverhospital.on.ca/patient/psychiatry/pat-psych-location.cfm |archive-date=2009-04-24 |url-status=dead }} in Kitchener.
On September 22, 2019, Grand River Hospital integrated all of their systems into a new central computer system in order to improve efficiency for patient care.{{Cite news|url=https://kitchener.citynews.ca/local-news/some-er-patients-may-have-experienced-longer-wait-times-due-to-new-computer-system-1713323|title=Some ER patients may have experienced longer wait times due to new computer system|last=Anderson|first=Erin|date=2019-09-25|work=Kitchener Today|access-date=2019-09-25}}
On April 1, 2025, Grand River merged with St. Mary's General Hospital to form the Waterloo Regional Health Network.{{cite news |last1=McGinty |first1=Joe |title=St. Mary’s and Grand River Hospital officially merge |url=https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/st-marys-and-grand-river-hospital-officially-merge/article_40198456-65d1-5b2d-85ee-b50c28f62b5e.html |access-date=30 March 2025 |publisher=The Record |date=March 28, 2025}} The new name of the KW Site is WRHN @ Midtown, and the Freeport Site is WRHN @ Chicopee.{{cite web |last1=Piercey |first1=Josh |title=Local hospitals merge to create Waterloo Regional Health Network |url=https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/04/01/local-hospitals-merge-to-create-waterloo-regional-health-network/ |website=kitchener.citynews.ca |publisher=CityNews |access-date=17 May 2025}}
Hospitals
=KW Site=
==History==
The KW Site of Grand River Hospital was previously known as the Berlin-Waterloo Hospital, Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital (K-W Hospital) and the K-W Health Centre.
The K-W Hospital was founded in 1895 as a community hospital to serve the cities of Kitchener and Waterloo. The initial capacity of the Hospital was 70 beds. The Hospital expanded in 1913 and grew until 1920. A substantial deficit in 1919, in part due to rising costs of healthcare, made the financial situation of the Hospital unstable. Consequently, the Hospital almost closed in 1923. Kitchener and Waterloo jointly formed the K-W Hospital Commission in 1924 and the Hospital became municipally owned.{{cite book |last1=Rutty |first1=Christopher |title=St. Mary’s General Hospital Kitchener, Ontario A Circle of Care, 75 Years of Caring |date=1999 |publisher=St. Mary's General Hospital |location=Kitchener |isbn=0-9685117-0-8 |page=8 |edition=First |url=https://www.chac.ca/documents/198/Kitchener_St._Marys_Hospital_75th.pdf |access-date=17 May 2025 }}
In 1901, the Hospital established one of the first ambulance services in the province. In 1936, the Hospital added a pathology lab.{{cite book |last1=Rutty |first1=Christopher |title=St. Mary’s General Hospital Kitchener, Ontario A Circle of Care, 75 Years of Caring |date=1999 |publisher=St. Mary's General Hospital |location=Kitchener |isbn=0-9685117-0-8 |page=34 |edition=First |url=https://www.chac.ca/documents/198/Kitchener_St._Marys_Hospital_75th.pdf |access-date=17 May 2025 }} K-W Hospital received accredited by the American College of Surgeons in 1943.{{cite book |last1=Rutty |first1=Christopher |title=St. Mary’s General Hospital Kitchener, Ontario A Circle of Care, 75 Years of Caring |date=1999 |publisher=St. Mary's General Hospital |location=Kitchener |isbn=0-9685117-0-8 |page=27 |edition=First |url=https://www.chac.ca/documents/198/Kitchener_St._Marys_Hospital_75th.pdf |access-date=17 May 2025 }} In 1951, the Hospital underwent a major expansion project.{{cite book |last1=Rutty |first1=Christopher |title=St. Mary’s General Hospital Kitchener, Ontario A Circle of Care, 75 Years of Caring |date=1999 |publisher=St. Mary's General Hospital |location=Kitchener |isbn=0-9685117-0-8 |page=45 |edition=First |url=https://www.chac.ca/documents/198/Kitchener_St._Marys_Hospital_75th.pdf |access-date=17 May 2025 }} In 1970, the Hospital expanded once again with a new maternity unit.{{cite book |last1=Rutty |first1=Christopher |title=St. Mary’s General Hospital Kitchener, Ontario A Circle of Care, 75 Years of Caring |date=1999 |publisher=St. Mary's General Hospital |location=Kitchener |isbn=0-9685117-0-8 |page=81 |edition=First |url=https://www.chac.ca/documents/198/Kitchener_St._Marys_Hospital_75th.pdf |access-date=17 May 2025 }}
As the K-W Health Centre the Hospital merged with Freeport in 1995 to form the Grand River Hospital Corporation.{{cite book |last1=Rutty |first1=Christopher |title=St. Mary’s General Hospital Kitchener, Ontario A Circle of Care, 75 Years of Caring |date=1999 |publisher=St. Mary's General Hospital |location=Kitchener |isbn=0-9685117-0-8 |page=119 |edition=First |url=https://www.chac.ca/documents/198/Kitchener_St._Marys_Hospital_75th.pdf |access-date=17 May 2025 }}
It is located on King Street West, near the Waterloo border, the Ion rapid transit light rail station and the former location of the CTV Kitchener studios. The Grand River Regional Cancer Centre opened at this site in 2003.{{cite web |title=20 Years of Cancer Care |url=https://grhf.ca/pages/20-years-of-cancer-care?srsltid=AfmBOorb2cVaDEyCDKUlAPVHAb6WAn-B84mDKeYFFnCMeBk434r3wznY |website=grhf.ca |publisher=Grand River Hospital Foundation |access-date=17 May 2025}} The site is supported by the Kitchener Helipad located southeast at the corner of Walter Street and Wellington Street South.
=Freeport Site=
The Freeport Site of Grand River Hospital was previously known as the Freeport Sanitorium.{{cite book |last1=Rutty |first1=Christopher |title=St. Mary’s General Hospital Kitchener, Ontario A Circle of Care, 75 Years of Caring |date=1999 |publisher=St. Mary's General Hospital |location=Kitchener |isbn=0-9685117-0-8 |page=8 |edition=First |url=https://www.chac.ca/documents/198/Kitchener_St._Marys_Hospital_75th.pdf |access-date=17 May 2025 }} It is located on King Street East on the shore of the Grand River. It was a tuberculosis sanatorium in the early 20th century, and in the late 1980s was transformed into a regional chronic care facility, as a new structure was built onto the previous one, expanding it. Complex continuing care, rehabilitation and the Waterloo-Wellington breast centre are located at this site. In November 2010, a new Specialized Mental Health program opened at Freeport, with all clinical practice based on the Recovery philosophy. This service is for patients living with severe and persistent mental illness, who would have previously been sent to London, Ontario.
The unique architecture of Freeport Centre is award winning; "its overall planning concept of simulating a village, complete with a courtyard cum town square, [distinguishes] it from many of its predecessors in long-term care architecture."Adams and Chivers, "[http://ageculturehumanities.org/WP/architecture-and-aging-the-depiction-of-home-in-sarah-polleys-away-from-her/ Architecture and Aging]" in Age, Culture, Humanities. 2, 2015 This has made it attractive as a filming location, as seen in two movies, Away from Her, directed by Sarah Polley; and Cold Creek Manor, directed by Mike Figgis.[https://www.imdb.com/search/title?locations=Freeport%20Health%20Centre,%20Kitchener,%20Ontario,%20Canada&ref_=ttloc_loc_1 Most Popular Titles With Location Matching "Freeport Health Centre, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada]"
Mental health
Withdrawal Management, located near the KW site at 52 Glasgow, Grand River Hospital supports the only withdrawal management centre within Waterloo-Wellington Regions. This facility has 24 hour monitoring of non-medical withdrawal for men and women, and a day program to help individuals maintain abstinence and help to transition to other community supports.{{Cite web|url=http://www.grhosp.on.ca/care/services-departments/mental-health-addiction/withdrawal-management|title=Withdrawal Management|website=Grand River Hospital|access-date=2019-09-25}}
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