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Halifax Children's Hospital which was adjacent to and immediately west of the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children that had opened in 1970. The new Grace facility opened in 1992 bounding the block formed by University Avenue, Robie Street and South Street west of the IWK. The new 475,000 sq ft (44,100 m) building was connected to the IWK to provide access to that facility's pediatric medicine departments. It was designed by Nycum Fowler Group and
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support of the Garron Centre for Child and
Adolescent, made the donation with a strong emphasis on supporting the completion of the Mental Health and Addictions Ecosystem. The money will go towards supporting a reimagined therapeutic environment for mental health and addiction services in Atlantic Canada.
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proposal in the late 1970s to construct a new maternity facility for the Grace as part of the $ 120 million Camp Hill
Medical Centre was postponed in 1982, forcing the Salvation Army to undertake an independent plan for a new Grace. By 1984, plans were underway to build a $ 30 million facility on the
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Halifax Mail Star of May 28, 1970, the children's hospital financed by the Killam Estate opened, despite the failed condition that the South Street Poor House be eliminated. Today, this hospital is gone, torn down after only 40 years for a much larger provincially funded building set
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The IWK Health main campus is located in the south end of
Halifax. The front entrance is on University Avenue between Robie Street and Summer Street. The IWK emergency entrance is located on South Street. (Note as of 2024 the IWK is building a new emergency department building. The new entrance will
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Halifax residents along with interested physicians proposed the idea of establishing a children's hospital in Halifax. A multi-year fundraising campaign ensued, raising $ 6,000 by 1907; later that year a donation of $ 10,000 by the late Mr. F.D. Corbett resulted
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A 5-year $ 48 million redevelopment began in 2004 which resulted in the construction of 48,000 sq ft (4,500 m) of new space and renovations to 160,000 sq ft (15,000 m) of existing space. Inpatient units, perioperative facilities and ambulatory care space also saw major
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University Avenue and South Street; in 1922 the Grace Maternity Hospital would be built on the opposite (north) side of University Avenue. This early pediatric facility had no private beds and, since health care in Canada at that time was private, surgical and medical staff
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September 9, 2024, the IWK Foundation received a $ 25-million donation from Myron and Berna Garron, the largest donation the foundation has ever received and the single largest individual donation to health care in Atlantic Canada. Berna and Myron, responsible for the funding and
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Marjorie Lindsay announced she would be donating $ 1 million to help fund the construction of a new inpatient mental health unit due to open in 2014. The Garron Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health opened for patients on May 14, 2014.
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and won the 1994 Lieutenant Governor's Award for Architecture. The old Grace Maternity Hospital located on the north side of the intersection of University Avenue and Robie Street was transferred to Dalhousie University and became home to the
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announced that it would no longer handle maternity cases, forcing the Grace to absorb its patients. By the 1970s the Grace occupied half a city block with 126 adult beds and 166 bassinets with 40 in the
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of December 6, 1917 gave momentum to the Halifax Medical Association's desire for a dedicated maternity institution, resulting in a resolution from that association on September 15, 1918, to
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donated their services without charge. The building expanded in 1919 to increase bed capacity to 50, followed by a further expansion in 1931 to 90 beds, and finally 217 beds in 1955.
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has been hosting the telethon since 1995 on CTV Atlantic (formerly ATV) when CBC stopped airing the telethon in 1994. The original host was Don Tremaine. The new host is Todd Battis
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The Grace Maternity School of Nursing opened in 1922 at the time the hospital itself opened, offering an 18-month course in
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began airing the telethon. Various CBC stations stopped airing Children's Miracle Network telethons in 1994 except for
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