The Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre is a
children's hospital
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located in
St. John's,
Newfoundland and Labrador
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,
Canada
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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
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Faculty of Medicine
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under the direction of NL Health Services.
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 and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada which operated from 1 ...
in the east end of the city. It was named after
Charles Alderson Janeway, 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 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 named "Pleasant View Towers" was 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
See also
*
Kevin Chan
*
List of children's hospitals
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References
External links
Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation - official websiteCBC: Old Janeway hospital to be demolished
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Children's hospitals in Canada
Hospital buildings completed in 2001
Hospitals in Newfoundland and Labrador
Teaching hospitals in Canada
Buildings and structures in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Hospitals established in 1966
1966 establishments in Newfoundland and Labrador