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Description

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Mission
Grand River Hospital provides exceptional CARE with compassion

Vision
Grand River Hospital will be a leader in providing 247 patient care programs through innovation and collaboration within available resources

Values
Professionalism Teamwork Positive Attitude Respect Communications

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History

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KW Hospital was first established in 1895 as the BerlinWaterloo Hospital Seventy patients were cared for in its first year The 30bed facility had one operating room a handful of nurses and a dozen physicians The hospitals 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 caregiving we believe our future will be even more impressive Your community hospital will provide new and expanded services to our rapidly growing communitys 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