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Building, the Abbie J. Lane Hospital, and the Halifax Infirmary on Queen Street were merged to form the Camp Hill Medical Centre. By 1992, planning had begun for construction of the new Halifax Infirmary building to replace the aging Queen Street facilities and relocate the Infirmary to the Camp Hill Medical Centre Summer Street campus.
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The Victoria General Hospital was established in 1887 by the City of Halifax and the provincial government when the former City and Provincial Hospital at the same site (Peter McGuigan, The Historic South End Halifax) was renamed; the City and Provincial Hospital having been established in 1859. In
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hospital. The building was closed when the present Halifax Infirmary on Summer Street opened in 1998; the "new Infirmary" has consolidated all emergency and outpatient services for the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, eliminating duplication between the Infirmary and Victoria General.
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founded the Abbie J. Lane hospital adjacent to Camp Hill on the corner of Jubilee Road (now Veteran's Memorial Lane) and Summer Street. In 1987 the Camp Hill Veterans' Memorial building was opened, and the original Camp Hill facilities were subsequently demolished. The new Veteran's Memorial
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in 1886 with a new building constructed at the intersection of Queen and Morris Streets in 1933. The Sisters of Charity operated the hospital until it was taken over by the provincial government in 1973. Until 1973, the Halifax Infirmary functioned largely as the city's
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as the province's only teaching hospital. The Victoria General Hospital's emergency and outpatient services were closed and consolidated at the new Infirmary site in 1998.
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The pipes in some parts of the QEII have been contaminated with legionella bacteria since the 1980s, which has rendered water in some buildings undrinkable.
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The QEII Health Sciences Centre is spread across 10 buildings, which now comprise two geographically separate campuses (formally termed "sites") on the
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during a health care administration reorganization in 1994. The amalgamation was formalized by legislation in 1995–96. The current hospital, opened by
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Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre - Bethune Building (foreground); Centennial Building is visible in the background
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1948, a new Victoria General Hospital was opened immediately east of the land which would eventually become home to the
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Centre for Clinical Research (resource centre for all QEII-based health research, affiliated with
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Camp Hill Veterans' Memorial Building (veterans health services, administered on behalf of
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across from Cherry Street and was expanded repeatedly throughout the years. In 1971 the
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Dickson Building (Nova Scotia Cancer Centre, Specimen Collection Services)
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Bethune Building (administrative offices, patient services and clinics)
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Mackenzie Building (Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
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The Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre was formed by an
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Halifax Infirmary site buildings with amenities and services
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Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre (physical rehabilitation)
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Halifax Infirmary (inpatient services, outpatient clinics)
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For other hospitals named Victoria General Hospital, see
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Centennial Building (inpatient and outpatient services)
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Victoria Building (inpatient and outpatient services)
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in 1917 as temporary lodgings for casualties of the
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QEII Health Sciences Centre
Capital District Health Authority

Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre is located in Nova Scotia
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Canada
Coordinates
44°38′20″N 63°34′45″W / 44.638889°N 63.579167°W / 44.638889; -63.579167
Care system
Type
Teaching
Affiliated university
Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine
Emergency department
trauma centre
Helipad
TC
LID
http://www.cdha.nshealth.ca/
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Canada
teaching hospital
Dalhousie University
IWK Health Centre
Nova Scotia Health Authority
Victoria General Hospital
order in council
Elizabeth II

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