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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, March 27, 2014 | 6 Spotlight "Connected to your Community" Burlington hospital growing to meet community needs by Tina Depko-Denver Metroland West Media An artistic rendering of Phase 1 of a two-part, ve-year expansion plan at Burlington's Joseph Brant Hospital. | courtesy Joseph Brant Hospital A hospital is the heartbeat of a community. It's where babies take their rst breath and where families say goodbye to loved ones. Broken arms are cast, chemotherapy is administered, blood pressure is monitored and hips are replaced. Burlington's Joseph Brant Hospital, formerly called Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, opened in 1961. As the community has grown, the hospital's resources, from staff to space, have been stretched. The 2012-13 scal year saw 13,258 admissions, 47,326 emergency department visits and 1,459 births. Approximately 73 per cent of patients live in Burlington. Joseph Brant Hospital is slated for a two-phase redevelopment and expansion, which started last year and will continue for the next ve years. see New on p.12 Halton Hospitals Tina Depko-Denver Michael Gregory Lisa Tallyn David Lea Nikki Wesley Building Our Health Care Halton Hospitals: Building Our Health Care is a special Metroland Media West four-part project that explores the critical need for, status and funding of numerous hospital expansion/construction projects in Halton's four municipalities -- Oakville, Burlington, Milton and Georgetown. The series will run across four weeks in our Thursday edition. It began last week with a look at Oakville's new hospital. Today, we feature changes at Burlington's Joseph Brant Hospital. For all the stories, photos and video, visit www.oakvillebeaver.com and http://insidehalton.com/ video/4395970. NEIL OLIVER Vice ­President and Group Publisher DAVID HARVEY Regional General Manager JILL DAVIS Halton Region Editor in Chief Volume 52 | Number 37 447 Speers Road, Oakville ON (905) 845-3824 Oakville Beaver is a member of the Ontario Press Council. The council is located at 80 Gould St., Suite 206, Toronto, Ont., M5B 2M7. Phone (416) 340-1981. Advertising is accepted on the condition that, in the event of a typographical error, that portion of advertising space occupied by the erroneous item, together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid for at the applicable rate. The publisher reserves the right to categorize advertisements or decline. Editorial and advertising content of the Oakville Beaver is protected by copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. Editorial Department: (905) 632-0588 Advertising Department (905) 845-3824 Classi ed Advertising: (905) 632-4444 Circulation: 5300 Harvester Rd., Burlington (905) 631-6095 DANIEL BAIRD Director of Advertising ANGELA BLACKBURN Managing Editor