Bridgepoint Health
| Sinai Health System- Bridgepoint | |
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| Sinai Health System- Bridgepoint | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°39′59″N 79°21′16″W / 43.66639°N 79.35444°WCoordinates: 43°39′59″N 79°21′16″W / 43.66639°N 79.35444°W |
| Organization | |
| Hospital type | Specialist |
| Affiliated university | University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No |
| Speciality | rehabilitation hospital and complex care |
| History | |
| Founded | 1875 |
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| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
Sinai Health System- Bridgepoint, formerly known as Bridgepoint Active Healthcare is a complex care and rehabilitation hospital and research centre in Toronto, affiliated with the University of Toronto. Its focus is to transform care for patients living with complex health conditions so they can live better. Bridgepoint Active Healthcare operates under four pillars that support the diagnosis, treatment, management, research and teaching of leading healthcare practices for patients with multiple health conditions:
The hospital is located next to the Don River in the Riverdale neighbourhood of the city and includes the historic Don Jail which is now the administration building for the new hospital. The exact address is 14 St. Matthews Road, Toronto, Ontario at the corner of Broadview Avenue and Gerrard Street. The new building towers over the east side of the Don Valley Parkway.
The House of Refuge was built on the site in 1860 as a home for "vagrants, the dissolute, and for idiots". The facility became the Riverdale Isolation Hospital in 1875 during a smallpox epidemic. It became a specialized facility located on the edge of the city to house patients with communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis. As times changed, in 1957, the hospital's name and mandate were changed; its focus was shifted to helping those with chronic ailments and/or needing rehabilitation, as The Riverdale Hospital. The artchitecturally distinctive brown brick "half-round" Riverdale Hospital - which become Bridgepoint Health in 2002 - was completed in 1963; was amalgamated structurally into the new Bridgepoint Active Healthcare campus. In 1997 as part of Mike Harris' cutbacks the government moved to close the original facility, but a community lobbying effort kept it open, and saved the historic Riverdale Hospital building.
In 2003, a $200 million expansion project was announced, that modernized and expanded the facility. The final result is the purpose-built, 10-storey, 404-bed Bridgepoint Hospital building, which is connected by a glass walkway to the old Don Jail, used for administrative offices. The former Don Jail was demolished in 2014 as part of the Bridgepoint redevelopment project.
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