IWK Health Centre
| IWK Health Centre | |
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 Location in Nova Scotia
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| Geography | |
| Location |
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| Coordinates | 44°38′16″N 63°35′03″W / 44.637639°N 63.58425°WCoordinates: 44°38′16″N 63°35′03″W / 44.637639°N 63.58425°W |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Medicare |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | III |
| Helipad | TC LID: CIW2 |
| Speciality | Pediatric, Maternity |
| History | |
| Founded | 1909 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.iwk.nshealth.ca/ |
The IWK Health Centre is a hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia that provides care to women, children, and youth from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
The IWK Health Centre is located in the south end of Halifax. The front entrance is on University Avenue between Robie Street and Martello Street.
The present-day IWK Health Centre traces its history to the development of two separate facilities, a pediatric hospital and a maternity hospital.
In the early 20th century, a group of 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 in the beginning of construction of the Halifax Children's Hospital which opened for use in 1909. It was located on the east side of Robie Street on the block bounded by 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 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.
Mrs. Dorothy J. Killam donated $8 million toward construction of a new pediatric hospital in the memory of her late husband Izaak Walton Killam. Construction of the new Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children (informally nicknamed the IWK) began in 1967 and the $20 million 325-bed facility opened in 1970. The location chosen was immediately west and adjacent to the province's largest health care facility, the Victoria General Hospital, which was the teaching hospital associated with the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine; the IWK would continue the Halifax Children's Hospital's affiliation with the Faculty of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics. Upon the opening of the IWK in 1970, the historic Halifax Children's Hospital was demolished.
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