St. Boniface Hospital

St. Boniface Hospital is located near the Red and Assiniboine Rivers in the St. Boniface neighbourhood of Winnipeg, which is home to a large proportion of Manitoba's Francophone population. It lies across the river from downtown and The Forks.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/campus_sbgh/GeneralInfo/GeneralInfo_FindingTheHospital.html |title=Finding the Hospital |year=2005 |publisher=St. Boniface Hospital |access-date=25 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817233009/http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/campus_sbgh/GeneralInfo/GeneralInfo_FindingTheHospital.html |archive-date=17 August 2009 }} The hospital has a parking structure and three parking lots.{{cite web|url=http://www.cancercare.mb.ca/home/patients_and_family/treatment_services/what_to_expect/parking/|title=Parking|publisher=CancerCare Manitoba|access-date=1 November 2009}} It also has an ambulance bay.

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St. Boniface Hospital was established by the Grey Nuns in 1871, the first hospital west of Quebec.{{cite web|url=http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/cmc/nursing/nurse7e.shtml|title=A caring profession: centuries of nursing in Canada|year=2005|publisher=Canadian Museum of Civilization|access-date=4 November 2009}} At that time, it was a small facility with four beds.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/campus_sbgh/GeneralInfo/GeneralInfo_About.html|title=About the Hospital|year=2005|publisher=St. Boniface Hospital|access-date=25 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003083831/http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/campus_sbgh/GeneralInfo/GeneralInfo_About.html |archive-date=3 October 2009}} An operating room was added in 1894.{{cite news|title=St. Boniface Hospital|date=10 March 1894|publisher=Daily Nor'Wester|page=5}} The Grey Nuns opened a school of nursing in 1897 and used the hospital to teach patient care.{{cite book|last=Kinnear|first=Mary|title=In subordination|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|year=1995|pages=104–105|isbn=0-7735-1279-9}} By the early 1900s, the hospital was treating approximately 2,500 patients per year.{{cite news|title=St. Boniface Hospital|date=9 February 1904|publisher=Morning Telegram|page=3}} An isolation hospital and nurse's residence was added in 1900.{{cite news|title=Spreading Wings|date=27 March 1900|publisher=Morning Telegram|page=1}} Due to overcrowding, a new addition was built in 1905, effectively doubling the patient capacity of the hospital.{{cite news|title=St. Boniface Hospital Doubles Capacity|date=17 December 1904|publisher=Morning Telegram|page=8}} It was awarded provisional approval by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in 1944,{{cite news|title=St. Boniface Hospital Wins Survey Approval|date=6 January 1944|publisher=Winnipeg Evening Tribune|page=9}} later becoming the office of the Manitoba Chapter of the ACS.{{cite web|url=http://web2.facs.org/chapter/ACSChapter_Officers.cfm?ID=00000079&COMMITTEE=C071%20Chapter%20-%20Manitoba&ALL=|title=Manitoba Chapter|year=1991|publisher=American College of Surgeons|access-date=25 September 2009}} As of 2003, the hospital has 554 beds and 78 bassinets.{{cite web|url=http://www.fcfa.ca/documents/89.pdf|title=Francophone Community Profile of Manitoba, 2nd ed|date=March 2004|publisher=La Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne (FCFA) du Canada|page=14|access-date=26 September 2009}}

The hospital order was incorporated in 1960 under the name St. Boniface General Hospital, giving it the right to invest and borrow money, own property, and collect fees for services.{{cite web|url=http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/private/c16790e.php|title=The St. Boniface General Hospital Incorporation Act|work=RSM 1990, C. 167|publisher=Government of Manitoba|access-date=25 September 2009}} St. Boniface Hospital, along with the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, opened the first hospice programs in Canada in 1975.{{cite web|url=http://www.victoriahospice.org/about-victoria-hospice/news-and-media/brief-history-palliative-care |title=Medical Care of the Dying, 4th edition |year=2006 |publisher=Victoria Hospice Society |access-date=5 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420230554/http://www.victoriahospice.org/about-victoria-hospice/news-and-media/brief-history-palliative-care |archive-date=20 April 2010 }} The Hospital Research Centre opened in 1987, becoming the first Canadian free-standing medical research facility.{{cite news|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/st-boniface----still-french-45248922.html|title=St. Boniface - still French|last=Ford|first=Tom|date=17 May 2009|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press|access-date=26 September 2009}} During the 1997 Red River flood, the hospital had to be evacuated, and has since created a disaster plan to cope any future evacuations or closures.

The Institute for stained glass in Canada has documented the stained glass at St Boniface Hospital.{{cite web| url=http://stainedglasscanada.ca/site.php?site=302/ | title=Institute for stained glass in Canada |access-date=16 November 2011}}

Basic medical care is a benefit provided to all Canadians through Canada's publicly funded health system.{{cite web|url=http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/medi-assur/index-eng.php|title=Canada's Health Care System (Medicare)|year=2004|publisher=Health Canada|access-date=26 September 2009}} However, significant additional funding is required for medical research, improvements in patient services, and the clinical programs found at St. Boniface Hospital. The hospital ended the 2008 fiscal year with a Can$900,000 deficit.{{cite report|title=Annual Report|year=2009|publisher=St. Boniface Hospital|page=4}} The St. Boniface Hospital & Research Foundation, founded in 1971, is the primary fundraising organization for St. Boniface Hospital and the Research Centre. By the end of 2006, the Foundation had raised over Can$100 million for patient care and research.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/campus_sbgh/NewsItems/News_Archives.html |title=Stuart Murray announced as new president/CEO of St. Boniface Hospital & Research Foundation |date=8 September 2006 |publisher=St. Boniface Hospital |access-date=4 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922163855/http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/campus_sbgh/NewsItems/News_Archives.html |archive-date=22 September 2008 }}

The St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre is the hospital's main research facility. It comprises three separate units: the G. Campbell MacLean Building, the Dr. Andrei Sakharov MRI Centre, and the I. H. Asper Clinical Research Institute, which are operated with research grants, industry contracts, fundraising, and funding from the University of Manitoba.{{cite web|url=http://www.wd-deo.gc.ca/eng/10362.asp|title=Western Canada's life sciences cluster|date=6 April 2009|publisher=Western Economic Diversification Canada |access-date=22 October 2009}} The centre opened in 1987. Its primary research mandate addresses three main areas: cardiovascular sciences, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy, and degenerative disorders associated with aging. In addition, the Centre undertakes research in anesthesia, epidemiology, family medicine, infectious diseases, nephrology, nursing, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, sleep disorders, and surgery.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbrc.ca/|title=St Boniface Hospital Research Centre|year=2007|publisher=St. Boniface Research Centre|access-date=25 September 2009}}

St. Boniface Hospital's Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences researches heart disease at the cellular and molecular levels.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbrc.ca/content/blogcategory/30/28//|title=Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences|year=2007|publisher=St. Boniface Research Centre|access-date=25 September 2009}} It also hosts the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, the journal Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences, and its journal Experimental & Clinical Cardiology.{{cite web|url=http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/rp-ps/journalDetail.jsp?jcode=cjpp&lang=eng|title=Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology|year=2009|publisher=National Research Council Canada|access-date=25 September 2009}}{{cite news|url=http://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/Documents/1380/November%2015%202007%20Bulletin.pdf|title=Appointments|date=15 November 2007|newspaper=The Bulletin|access-date=25 September 2009}} The Institute was created as the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences in 1987 by Dr. Naranjan Dhalla. Its researchers have been published in such academic journals as the New England Journal of Medicine and Cardiovascular Research.{{cite journal|last=Ridker|first=Paul M.|date=10 April 2003|title=Long-Term, Low-Intensity Warfarin Therapy for the Prevention of Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|volume=348|issue=15|pages=1425–1434|doi=10.1056/NEJMoa035029|pmid=12601075|display-authors=etal|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|last=Singal|first=Pawan K|year=1998|title=The role of oxidative stress in the genesis of heart disease|journal=Cardiovascular Research|publisher=European Society of Cardiology |volume=40|issue=3|pages=426–432|doi=10.1016/S0008-6363(98)00244-2|pmid=10070480|display-authors=etal|doi-access=free}}

The Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders (DND) was established in 1999.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbrc.ca/dnd/about-us/|title=DND: About Us|year=2007|publisher=St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre|access-date=25 September 2009}} The DND is a neurodegenerative research team working to identify causes and treatments for disorders like Alzheimer’s, strokes, traumatic brain injury, and central nervous system degeneration, to study the effect of diabetes on neurodegeneration, and to conduct sleep studies.{{cite journal|last=Square|first=David|date=15 October 1997|journal=Canadian Medical Association Journal|volume=157|issue=8|page=1010|url=https://patientscanada.ca/pdf/1010.pdf|access-date=22 October 2009|title=Winnipeg centre created to study aging, prepare for problems}}{{cite web|url=http://www.jdrf.ca/files/Diabetes_News_08/News_Release_JDRF_Funding_Announcement.pdf|title=SBHRC receives $1.2 million in funding from JDRF for diabetes research|date=16 October 2008|publisher=Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation|access-date=24 October 2009}} As of 2011, the principal investigators collectively have over 150 journal publications.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbrc.ca/dnd/publications/|title=Publications|year=2009|publisher=St. Boniface Research Centre|access-date=4 April 2012}}

The Canadian Centre for Agri-food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM) investigates nutraceuticals and health food in partnership with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada.{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/mahrn/news.html|title=Investment to Strengthen Manitoba's Life Sciences Clister|year=2008|publisher=Manitoba Agri-Health Research Network|access-date=24 October 2009}} CCARM’s mandate is to research natural health products and give the results to the scientific community and the general public.{{cite web|url=http://alsi.alberta.ca/media/40256/research%20and%20innovation%20centres%20april%202009.v1.pdf|title=Food and Health Research Innovation Centres Across Canada|publisher=Alberta Life Sciences Institute|page=74|access-date=2 October 2009}} The results of their research have been published in numerous academic journals, including the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the Journal of Biological Chemistry.{{cite journal|last=Patenaude|first=A|year=2009|title=Bioavailability of alpha-linolenic acid from flaxseed diets as a function of the age of the subject|journal=European Journal of Clinical Nutrition|publisher=Nature Publishing Group|volume=63|pages=1123–1129|doi=10.1038/ejcn.2009.41|pmid=19584895|issue=9|display-authors=etal|doi-access=}}{{cite journal|last=Alibin|first=Caroline|author2=Kopilas, Melanie |author3=Anderson, Hope |date=18 April 2008|title=Suppression of Cardiac Myocyte Hypertrophy by Conjugated Linoleic Acid|journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry|publisher=American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology|volume=283|pages=10707–10715|url=http://www.jbc.org/content/283/16/10707.abstract|doi=10.1074/jbc.M800035200|pmid=18283099|issue=16|doi-access=free}}

The Dr. Andrei Sakharov Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Facility, the first of its kind in Manitoba, has three MRI scanners. The facility allows radiologists to diagnose abnormalities of the brain, spinal cord, internal organs and joints.{{cite web|url=http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/magnetacademy/mri/|title=MRI: A Guided Tour|last=Coyne|first=Kristen|publisher=National High Magnetic Field Laboratory|access-date=2 October 2009|archive-date=12 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412192930/http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/education/tutorials/magnetacademy/mri/|url-status=dead}} St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre is a recognized leader in the MRI field and has one of the largest MRI research facilities in Canada.{{cite journal|last=Stewart|first=Jane|date=5 October 1999|title=Winnipeg becoming leader in MRI-based research|journal=Canadian Medical Association Journal|publisher=Canadian Medical Association|volume=161|issue=7|page=790|issn=0820-3946|url=http://ecmaj.com/cgi/content/full/161/7/790|pmid=10530289|pmc=1230638}} An MRI was first installed at St. Boniface in 1990; this MRI was eventually replaced by a more modern version, which is primarily used for clinical purposes.{{cite news|title=New age surgery|date=1 January 1998|publisher=Manitoba Business}} The other two MRIs are research-oriented: they are an interventional scanner and a head-only functional unit. The clinical scanner enables the Centre to do echo-planar imaging, producing images at video rates;{{cite web|url=http://www.sbrc.ca/home/facilities-and-support/magnetic-resonance-imaging/|title=Magnetic Resonance Imaging|year=2007|publisher=St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre|access-date=4 April 2012}} the interventional MRI gives physicians access to the patient during imaging, which supports research into robotics-guided laser surgery.{{cite web|url=http://www.ihe.ca/documents/ip17.pdf|title=Interventional and Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging|last=Scott|first=Ann|date=March 2004|publisher=Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research|page=18|access-date=25 September 2009}} Research carried out at the centre has been published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.{{cite web|url=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/search/allsearch?mode=quicksearch&products=journal&WISsearch2=1522-2586&WISindexid2=issn&contentTitle=Journal+of+Magnetic+Resonance+Imaging&contextLink=blah&contentOID=10005199&WISsearch1=%22St+boniface%22&WISindexid1=WISall&articleGo.x=0&articleGo.y=0|title=Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging|publisher=Wiley Interscience|access-date=2 November 2009}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

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The I. H. Asper Clinical Research Institute facilitates clinical trials of the discoveries made at the Research Centre.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbrc.ca/clinical-research/about-us/|title=Clinical Research|year=2007|publisher=St. Boniface Hospital & Research Foundation|access-date=4 April 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.aucc.ca/momentum/en/benefits/healthy.html |title=Benefits to Canadians |publisher=AUCC |access-date=1 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004230621/http://www.aucc.ca/momentum/en/benefits/healthy.html |archive-date=4 October 2006 }} The Institute is the third research facility in Canada to conduct tests on new drugs and medical devices.{{cite web|url=http://www.wd.gc.ca/eng/77_4571.asp |title=Western Economic Diversification Takes Research Initiative To Heart |date=January 2003 |publisher=Western Economic Diversification Canada |access-date=26 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716021920/http://www.wd.gc.ca/eng/77_4571.asp |archive-date=16 July 2011 }} The I. H. Asper Clinical Research Institute was opened in 2004.

St. Boniface Hospital is affiliated with the University of Manitoba's education and research branches, providing internship and practicum positions for students. The hospital works with multiple University of Manitoba faculties, including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, social work, respiratory therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, as well as with Red River College and Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/campus_sbgh/AboutUs/about_Education.html |title=Education |year=2005 |publisher=St. Boniface Hospital |access-date=25 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914123803/http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/campus_sbgh/AboutUs/about_Education.html |archive-date=14 September 2009 }} St. Boniface Hospital also hosts the Winnipeg Critical Care Nursing Education Program.{{cite web|url=http://www.wrha.mb.ca/prog/criticalcare/education.php|title=Critical Care Education Program|year=2008|publisher=Winnipeg Regional Health Authority|access-date=25 September 2009}}

St. Boniface is one of Manitoba's two tertiary care centres.{{cite web|url=http://www.wrha.mb.ca/hospitals/index.php |title=Hospitals & Facilities |publisher=WRHA |access-date=26 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727162353/http://www.wrha.mb.ca/hospitals/index.php |archive-date=27 July 2010 }} Patients are referred to the hospital by their doctors or clinics for specialized care, though most are admitted through the emergency department.{{cite web|url=https://secure.cihi.ca/free_products/Emergency_Department_Wait_Times_III_2007_e.pdf |title=Understanding Emergency Department Wait Times: Access to Inpatient Beds and Patient Flow|access-date=19 August 2021|publisher=CIHI}} The Medicine Program is the adult general admissions program. This program admits around 4,000 patients per year, and treats around 40,000 through outpatient clinics. Services include: internal medicine, endocrinology, rheumatology, respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, hematology, oncology, pathology and neurology. The outreach program also includes at-home intravenous therapy and nutrition.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/patientCare/medicine.html|title=Medicine Program|year=2005|publisher=St. Boniface Hospital|access-date=4 April 2012}} The hospital has 14 operating rooms; there is also a surgical intensive care unit available for recovery. The surgical department treats over 14,000 patients per year.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/patientCare/surgery.html|title=Surgery|year=2005|publisher=St. Boniface Hospital|access-date=4 April 2012}}

St. Boniface's emergency department provides acute care for an average of over 100 patients per day, and is the second busiest emergency department in Winnipeg.{{cite web|url=http://mchp-appserv.cpe.umanitoba.ca/reference//ER2011_report_Web.pdf|title=Doupe Report|year=2017|publisher=University of Manitoba|access-date=18 May 2017}} The emergency room had the third longest wait times in Canada as of 2016.{{Cite web | url=http://globalnews.ca/news/3097318/winnipeg-continues-to-have-canadas-worst-er-wait-times/ |title = Winnipeg continues to have Canada's worst ER wait times|publisher=Global|date = 30 November 2016}} Patient visits are expected to rise dramatically in the next few years, as smaller emergency departments in Winnipeg are closed down as part of a region-wide restructuring effort; expansion of the emergency department began in the summer of 2022. {{cite web|url=https://stbonifacehospital.ca/ed-project/|accessdate=8 December 2022|publisher=St Boniface Hospital|title=Emergency Department Redevelopment Project}}{{cite news|url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/manitoba-government-closes-three-of-six-emergency-rooms-in-winnipeg-1.3359244 |title=Manitoba government closes three of six emergency rooms in Winnipeg |last=Lambert|first=Steve|date=7 April 2017|website=CTV News}}

The Family Medicine Program is designed to encourage disease prevention and health maintenance.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/patientCare/familyMed.html|title=Family Medicine Program|year=2005|publisher=St. Boniface Hospital|access-date=5 April 2012}} It also includes a palliative care unit, the first nationally accredited palliative residency program in Canada. The Rehabilitation Program provides inpatient and outpatient physiotherapy.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/patientCare/rehabGeriatrics.html|title=Rehabilitation & Geriatrics Program|year=2005|publisher=St. Boniface Hospital|access-date=5 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218111100/http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/patientCare/rehabGeriatrics.html|archive-date=18 February 2012|url-status=dead}} The Mental Health program provides psychological and counselling services to adult and adolescent patients. It also maintains an inpatient program, and provides stress counselling to hospital staff.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/patientCare/mentalHealth.html|title=Mental Health Program|year=2005|publisher=St. Boniface Hospital|access-date=5 April 2012}}

The Cardiac Sciences Program (including the departments of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Cardiac Anesthesiology and Critical Care) is an integrated heart health unit designed to treat cardiac problems.{{cite news|title=St. Boniface hospital firsts|last=Staff Writer|date=10 May 2009|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press|page=B7}} The Bergen Cardiac Care Centre provides access to tertiary cardiology care and hosts cardiac operations and diagnostics, the only hospital in Manitoba to offer certain specialized services.{{cite web|url=http://www.canhealth.com/News320.html|title=$30 million for cardiac care at St. Boniface Hospital|year=2007|publisher=Canadian Healthcare Technology|access-date=25 September 2009}}{{cite journal|last=Sibbald|first=Barbara|date=28 October 2008|journal=Canadian Medical Association Journal|publisher=Canadian Medical Association|volume=169|issue=9|url=http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/169/9/950|access-date=2 November 2009|title=Manitoba kills cardiac care unit, consolidates services at single site|page=950|pmid=14581324|pmc=219640}} It includes three cardiac angiography rooms, one pacemaker and cardiac defibrillator room, one room for procedures in electrophysiology, 17 recovery beds, cardiology clinics, echocardiography rooms, and office space.{{cite web|url=http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/units/cardiac_sciences/aboutus.htm|title=Cardiac Sciences Program|year=2009|publisher=WRHA Cardiac Sciences Program|access-date=25 September 2009}}

St. Boniface is one of eight hospitals in Winnipeg providing diagnostic imaging services, and is part of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's diagnostic imaging program.{{cite web|url=http://www.wrha.mb.ca/prog/diagnostic/index.php|title=Diagnostic Imaging Program|year=2008|publisher=WRHA|access-date=25 September 2009}} It provides: angiography, bone density imaging, CT scans, MRIs, mammography, nuclear medicine tests, ultrasounds and X-rays.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/patientCare/diagnosticImaging.html|title=Department of Diagnostic Imaging|year=2005|publisher=St. Boniface Hospital|access-date=5 April 2012}} St. Boniface was the home of Manitoba's first MRI scanner, and is one of the largest diagnostic MRI facilities in Western Canada.

The laboratories at the St. Boniface Hospital operate under the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's Laboratory Medicine Program; St. Boniface is one of the two main referral sites in the WRHA for specialty tests.{{cite web|url=http://www.wrha.mb.ca/prog/laboratories/index.php|title=Medical Laboratory Services|year=2008|publisher=WRHA|access-date=25 September 2009}} They run tests in biochemistry, hematology, immunology, microbiology, cytology and pathology for patients and doctors in Manitoba.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/patientCare/labs.html|title=SBGH Laboratories|year=2004|publisher=St. Boniface Hospital|access-date=5 April 2012}} They also provide some specialized testing facilities for educational institutions.

St. Boniface Hospital provides acute and chronic hemodialysis as part of the Manitoba Renal Program.{{cite web|url=http://www.manitobarenalprogram.ca/pages/aboutus.asp |title=Manitoba Renal Program: About Us |access-date=5 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706184600/http://www.manitobarenalprogram.ca/pages/aboutus.asp |archive-date=6 July 2011 }} It also has a renal health clinic to assess patients with kidney problems.

The Woman & Child Program cares for 11,500 patients annually, providing gynecological and obstetrical services, outpatient pediatric care and women's services.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbgh.mb.ca/patientCare/womanChild.html|title=Woman & Child Program|year=2005|publisher=St. Boniface Hospital|access-date=5 April 2012}} Over 5,000 births per year occur at St. Boniface Hospital.{{cite news|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Renovation-to-add-more-private-rooms-to-St-B-maternity-ward-62342907.html|title=Renovation to add more private rooms to St. B maternity ward|last=Kusch|first=Larry|date=28 September 2009|publisher=Winnipeg Free Press|access-date=4 November 2009}} The Labour and Delivery department includes services for high-risk deliveries. The family care unit includes fifteen beds for obstetrical patients. The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) cares for 600 premature or ill infants per year; 10% of the births at St. Boniface involve ill or premature babies.{{cite web|url=http://www.thehealthreport.ca/past.html|title=Past Programs|date=November 2008|publisher=The Health Report|access-date=25 September 2009}}

St. Boniface reports 80% patient satisfaction with its services, according to internal inpatient surveys. Mortality rates for inpatients stand at around 2.4%. Unlike the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada does not publish national ratings of individual hospitals.{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/News/article/210619|title=Hospitals resist ranking system|date=6 October 2006|newspaper=The Star|access-date=19 October 2009| first1=Tanya | last1=Talaga | first2=Robert | last2=Cribb}}

According to internal reviews, the hospital reduced average wait times for acute care surgical patients from 10 hours to 3 between October 2008 and February 2009. As of 2009, the hospital is trying to reduce wait times for emergency room patients.{{cite news|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/st-b-hospitals-new-er-taking-aim-at-wait-times-59602247.html?viewAllComments=y|title=St. B hospital's new ER taking aim at wait times|last=Owen|first=Bruce|date=17 September 2009|newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press|access-date=25 September 2009}} Wait times for scheduled diagnostic services range from 4 weeks for bone density tests to 20 weeks for a myocardial perfusion study.{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/health/waittime/diagnostic/index.html|title=Manitoba Wait Time Information: Diagnostic Services|date=August 2009|publisher=Manitoba Health|access-date=25 September 2009}} The median wait time for cardiac surgery is 26 days.{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/health/waittime/surgical/heart.html|title=Cardiac (Heart) Surgery|date=July 2009|publisher=Manitoba Health|access-date=25 September 2009}}

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