235:"Colloquially referred to as the General, was not officially open, but my mother was in labour," Shares Susan Foerster Cameron to sudbury.com as they were the first child to be born at the Sudbury General Hospital. Many shared their memories of the building in a Memory Lane feature hosted by sudbury.com as the structure still remains in the city. Ann Link writes about three generations of her family being born in the hospital and their experiences and sentimental attachment to the building. They also mention the parking was close to the entrance and they were satisfied with the care and services of the staff while being regular visitors of the facility. Ginette Tobodo said, "They used to do this cool thing. On the walls they painted certain colours — one color for the lab, another colour for the cardiac department, etc., and you just followed the colour to where you needed to go. Easy to find your way around."
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used to get across the structure. 860 gallons of paint were provided at a discounted price and a crane was brought in to reach the hard to get areas. The
Helipad and parts of the back of the building are surrounded with rough terrain and remain unpainted as it was too hard to get around. After numerous thefts and setbacks, the mural was completed on August 26, 2019, making it Canada's largest mural.
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Panoramic Properties who planned to re-use the building as a residential apartment building. After some initial construction work, the company said in 2017 that it had “decided to take a break and regroup” at the time so it could “proceed with the condominium project at some point in time in the near future.”
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unit (ICU), poison control and volunteer services centre (1967), neurosurgery facilities (1970) and a
Pastoral Care department (1972). A new wing was constructed with new delivery rooms, operation theaters, intensive care, major emergency, x-ray and laboratory facilities and an eye, ear, nose and throat unit.
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Festival that took place in Sudbury The 80,000 square foot mural was commissioned by Panoramic Properties for the annual urban art and music festival. Three lifts provided by Equipment World were
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General Hospital in due course became the regional referral centre for trauma care and surgical services. A treatment centre for crippled children opened in 1962, which was followed by various other departments including a nuclear medicine department and medical library (1964), intensive care
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contributed $ 125,000 towards the hospital which initially had 200 beds. Additions were progressively made to the building and in 1954, 100 additional beds were added to a new treatment wing. By 1960, 326 beds were contained in the hospital although it was only designed to cater 190 beds. The formal
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Sudbury were amalgamated under the HĂ´pital RĂ©gional de Sudbury Regional Hospital (HRSRH) in 1997 as part of provincewide health care restructuring. Construction began on a new Sudbury Regional hospital at the site of Laurentian Hospital the following year. Sudbury General
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