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Urgent Care Opens at St. Joseph's Hospital Hospital Construction Transforms View in South and North London SJHC Breaks Ground on Surgical and Diagnostic Imaging Centres LHSC Opens New Operating Rooms at UC Eves Announces Major Equipment Funding Victoria Campus Construction Goes Into High Gear Ground Broken for New Children's Hospital and Women's Health Pavillion Major Capital Funding Announced City-wide Rehabilitation Services Consolidate at Parkwood Hospital City-wide Rheumatology Services Consolidate at St. Joseph's Hospital New MRI Suite Opens at Victoria Campus New Adam Linton Dialysis/Plasmapheresis Unit Opens
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South Street ER Closes and Victoria Hospital's Opens February 16, 2005 - St. Joseph's Health Care, London officially opened the city's first Urgent Care Centre. The Urgent Care Centre is a new health service to treat non-life threatening illnesses and injuries, such as scrapes, cuts, sprains, broken bones, earaches, fevers, coughs and colds. The hours of operation are 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., seven days per week. It is located at the site of the former Emergency Department, which transferred to London Health Sciences Centre on February 15.
ER staff pose with the signs that directed patients to the South Street Emergency Department since it opened in 1941. . At 7 am on June 12 the South Street Emergency Department closed its doors and the new adult Emergency Department at Victoria Hospital opened. As of June 12, 2005, London has two Emergency Departments. LHSC University Hospital "I am pleased to report that the relocation of the South Street Emergency Department to the new Victoria Hospital was completed without incident and ahead of schedule," said Tony Dagnone, President and CEO of London Health Sciences Centre. One hundred and forty patients in total relocated from South Street Hospital to Victoria Hospital in the largest hospital-based transfer of programs in London in over twenty years. In total, LHSC transferred five emergency patients, 24 critical care patients, 48 medicine/respirology patients, 48 surgical patients and 15 cardiology patients. In addition, five critical care patients transferred Saturday night, bringing the total number patients who have moved from South Street to Victoria Hospital to 145. All moves occurred without incident. We have also transferred over three hundred trucks of medical equipment and supplies beginning last Monday, including 50 on June . "Countless hours of planning and preparation have been necessary to enable this day to be such a success," said Tony Dagnone, President and CEO of London Health Sciences Centre. "To our staff, physicians and volunteers, thank you for your dedication. To our patients and their families - thank you for your patience and understanding as we have had to inconvenience you with today's move." South Street Hospital will remain a hub of activity, with programs such
as Acute Mental Health, Dialysis, Ambulatory Clinics, Nuclear Medicine,
Sleep Lab, Research, offices and administration. It will remain in operation
until Milestone II, expected in 2008. For more information, the public can call 1-866-313-5528 or visit www.emergencylondon.ca. As always, if you have a medical emergency call 911 or go to your nearest Emergency Department.
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