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w w w .in s id e h a lto n .c o m | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, June 3 0 , 2 0 1 7 | 8 Healthcare by Nathan Howes Oakville Beaver Staff Oakville' s hospital began in 1 9 3 7 as a two-ward, four-bed facility on Eighth Line and MacDonald Road. It moved to First Street, a facility with 14 beds, established by the Oakville Lion' s Club in 1945. It has undergone several transformations to become what it is today -- a 1.6 million-squareft. facility with m ore than 4 5 0 in-patient beds at 3 0 0 1 Hospital Gate (Third Line/Dundas Street). The 3 2 7 Reynolds St. hospital housed Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (OTMH) for about 6 5 years. A fundraising campaign in the late 1940s helped build the hospital that opened its door Feb. 14, 1950. It had 50 beds, 13 staff doctors and 13 nurses. Oakville residents helped move eight patients and six babies in. Two years later, a 120-bed addition was built to serve a population of 17,300. By 1959, OTMH' s operating expenses exceeded $1-million and the town' s population approached 40,000. A new wing was built in 1963. "Connected to your Community " Oakville's two Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospitals including maternal and childcare, critical care, emergency care, surgery, com plex continuing care, rehabilitation, diagnostics, ambulatory care, 2 4 dialysis stations, with capacity to increase to 57, and a variety of support services. It has 8 0 per cent single-patient room s, three MRIs, two CT scanners and a helipad. The John Oliver Auditorium is named after the former president and CEO of HH (Halton Healthcare), now Oakville MP. M uch of the medical equipment inside the hospital came courtesy of the Oakville Hospital Foundation, which raised $ 6 5 million from the comm unity to purchase the more than 3 0 ,0 0 0 pieces of new medical equipment. There are 2 ,1 0 0 parking spaces including 1,180 in a six-level parking structure. The cafeteria, still called Parson' s Pantry, has 4 0 0 indoor seats and 6 0 outdoor seats. The new OTMH hospital was a $2.27-billion investment by the provincial government -- and m uch was credited to the work by Oakville MPP Kevin Flynn. The Town of Oakville also contributed $ 1 3 0 million. -- with files from David Lea Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, left, 327 Reynodls St.; right, 3001 Hospital Gate. At 3 3 3 beds, O TM H had n ew operating and recovery ro om s, a chapel, new x-ray and obstetrical departm ents and a state-ofth e-art intensive care unit, one of the first in Canada. A year later, a nurses' residence, the Helen Lawson building, opened, named for the wife of former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and a long-time OTMH supporter Raymond Lawson. Growth led to an OTMH redevelopment program. The Master Plan, approved in 1977, consisted of three stages. OTMH' s CAT scan suite opened in 1986. | Metroland Media On Aug. 1, 1998, ownership of OTMH and Milton District Hospital were taken over by Halton Healthcare Services Corporation (HHS). Georgetown Hospital was transferred to HHS in 2005. Sept. 19, 2 0 0 5 marked the beginning of a decade-long process to build a new OTMH with an announcement from the province. It opened Sunday, Dec. 13, 2 0 1 5 at 6 a.m. as the Reynolds Street site closed and in-patients were m oved to the $2.7-billion facility that day. OTMH offers a full-range of services, WMAZING neStars HomeStars Hom eStaj Let Your Natural Beauty Shine Through At Any Age NON-SURG IGALO FFERS Laser Skin Rejuvenation A cne Treatm ent Laser Hair Removal Photofacial Skin Resurfacing HomeStars Injectables: B otox Fillers/Juvederm Skin Health Management: Facial Peels Latisse C om prehensive Skin Care Analysis S clerotheropy ZO Skin Health M edical G rade Facials Non-Surgical Body Contouring Vanquish Exilis PC he- G R A C E C L IN IC B u r lin g t o n P o s t R e a d e r s C h o i c e W i n n e r 1 5 Y rs. in a R o w PLASTIC, RECONSTRUCTIVE & LASER SURGERY Dr Douglas Grace B.SC. M.D. F.R.C.S.C Plastic, Reconstructive, & Laser Surgeon PH O N E : 9 0 5 -3 3 7 -3 1 1 7 O R T E X T : 9 0 5 -5 8 0 -3 3 4 5 ww w.am azingresults.ca 289 768-2683 |200-481 JOHN ST., BURLINGTON jWWW.GRACECLINIC.CA V o t e d #1 Fa c ia l a n d C o s m e t ic Plastic Su r g e o n in O akville , Bu r l in g t o n and H a m il t o n