Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre | |
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trauma centre | |
Helipad | TC LID: CHQE |
History | |
Opened | 1997 (amalgamation) |
Links | |
Website | http://www.cdha.nshealth.ca/ |
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, is a large teaching hospital and Level 1 Trauma Centre affiliated with Dalhousie University. The QEII cares for adult patients. Pediatric patients within the region are cared for at the IWK Health Centre. Administratively, the QEII is part of the Nova Scotia Health Authority.
History
The Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre was formed by an
The Halifax Infirmary was established by the
Camp Hill Hospital was founded by the
The Victoria General Hospital was established in 1887 by the City of Halifax and the provincial government when the former City and Provincial Hospital at the same site (Peter McGuigan, The Historic South End Halifax) was renamed; the City and Provincial Hospital having been established in 1859. In 1948, a new Victoria General Hospital was opened immediately east of the land which would eventually become home to the IWK Health Centre, a children's hospital, on a block bounded by Tower Road, University Avenue, and South Street, and was the largest hospital in the province in terms of both staff and bed capacity. A hospital parking area was established in the lot between Tower Road and South Park Street; in the 1980s the lot was expanded to physically join with the hospital facilities, effectively dividing Tower Road into two sections north and south of the facility. Historically, the VG, as it is called, was aligned with the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine as the province's only teaching hospital. The Victoria General Hospital's emergency and outpatient services were closed and consolidated at the new Infirmary site in 1998.
The pipes in some parts of the QEII have been contaminated with legionella bacteria since the 1980s, which has rendered water in some buildings undrinkable.[3]
Physical components
The QEII Health Sciences Centre is spread across 10 buildings, which now comprise two geographically separate campuses (formally termed "sites") on the Halifax Peninsula.
- Halifax Infirmary site buildings with amenities and services[4]
- Abbie J. Lane Memorial Building (mental health/family medicine)
- Camp Hill Veterans' Memorial Building (veterans health services, administered on behalf of Veterans Affairs Canada)
- Halifax Infirmary (inpatient services, outpatient clinics)
- Charles V. Keating Emergency and Trauma Centre[5]
- Gift Shops/Convenience Stores/Drug Stores
- Libraries
- Parking
- Places of Prayer and Meditation
- Shuttle Service (free)
- Spiritual Care
- Victoria General site buildings
- Bethune Building (administrative offices, patient services and clinics)
- Centennial Building (inpatient and outpatient services)
- Centre for Clinical Research (resource centre for all QEII-based health research, affiliated with Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine)
- Dickson Building (Nova Scotia Cancer Centre, Specimen Collection Services)
- Mackenzie Building (Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
- Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre (physical rehabilitation)
- Victoria Building (inpatient and outpatient services)
Notable deaths
- Kevin MacMichael, guitarist of Cutting Crew, died from lung cancer
- Taylor Mitchell, country folk singer, coyote victim at Cape Breton Highlands National Park's Skyline Trail
- Rehtaeh Parsons, incident reportedly related to sexual humiliation and cyberbullying
See also
References
- ^ MacKenzie, Barry (5 May 2021), "Prince Philip's Atlantic Canadian Legacy", Acadiensis, retrieved 15 August 2022
- ^ "Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Act". Retrieved 2008-08-11.
- ^ "Victoria General hospital plagued by problems since the 1980s". CBC News. 25 September 2015.
- ^ "Nova Scotia Health Authority".
- ^ "Nova Scotia Health Authority".