The Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre is a

children's hospital A children's hospital is a hospital that offers its services exclusively to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In certain special cases, they may also treat adults. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th ...

located in St. John's,

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Overview

The Janeway is the only children's hospital in the province and functions, in partnership with Health Sciences Centre, as a teaching hospital for the

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under the direction of the Eastern Regional Health Authority (Eastern Health). The facility was founded as the Dr. Charles Alderson Janeway Child Health Centre in 1966 using the former base hospital on the recently closed

Pepperrell Air Force Base Pepperrell Air Force Base, previously known as Fort Pepperrell, is a decommissioned United States military base located in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada which operated from 1941 to 1961. The base was named in honour of Sir William Pepperre ...

in the east end of the city. It was named after

Charles Alderson Janeway Charles Alderson Janeway (1909 in New York City – 1981 in Weston, Massachusetts) was an American pediatrician, medical professor, and clinical researcher. Janeway was physician in chief from 1946 to 1976 at Children's Hospital Boston. He als ...

, a pediatrician who is credited with helping to establish the hospital. The name of the facility was modified to its present form in 2001 when a new state-of-the-art facility was opened as an annex of the Health Sciences Centre. Demolition of the old facility located in the former Pepperrel AFB started in September 2008 by Kelloway Construction, hired by the provincial government at a cost of $924,129. Clean-up of the site was completed in 2010 and in September 2015 a new long-term care facility "Pleasant View Towers" opened on Newfoundland Drive.

Services

The Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre includes: * 42 Acute Care Medical Surgical beds * 7 Acute care psychiatry beds * 25 Neonatal Intensive Care beds * 6 Pediatric Care Intensive Care beds * 3 Operating rooms * Extensive Rehabilitation Centre * Diagnostic Treatment Services * Outpatient Services * Outreach Programs in Diabetes, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, and Hemophilia * Pediatric Emergency Department * Therapeutic Pool * therapeutic play garden * Janeway Hospital School, operated by the English School District

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External links

Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation - official website

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