Toronto Grace Health Centre

Toronto Grace Health Centre
The Salvation Army
Geography
Location 650 Church St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Organization
Care system Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP)
Hospital type Specialist
Services
Emergency department No
Beds 119
Speciality Palliative care
History
Founded 1905
Links
Website http://www.torontograce.org
Lists Hospitals in Canada

Toronto Grace Health Centre is a hospital located at 650 Church Street in Toronto, Ontario. Owned and operated by the Salvation Army, it specializes in palliative care, slow-paced rehabilitation, and complex continuing care.

Overview

Located on the corner of Church and Bloor Street in downtown Toronto, the six-storey facility[1] was known as a maternity hospital up to the 1970s when the hospital closed its pregnancy ward. It was one of the first hospitals in Canada to introduce palliative care. It is now a long term and palliative care facility.[2]

In 2002, the hospital underwent several renovations, meant to curb energy consumption, in associated with the Energy Innovators Initiative[3]

The Salvation Army was prepared to close the hospital starting in February 2010 due to high upkeep costs,[4] but a deal was struck between the Province and the Salvation Army to keep the hospital open.[5]

History

Footnotes

  1. Toronto Grace Hospital (Mid-Rise)
  2. Toronto Grace Hospital
  3. Publication | Toronto Grace Hospital | Energy Innovators Initiative Project Synopsis
  4. http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/local/article/434247--grace-hospital-up-for-grabs-as-salvation-army-backs-out

Coordinates: 43°40′14″N 79°22′59″W / 43.670429°N 79.383178°W / 43.670429; -79.383178

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