Markham Stouffville Hospital
| Markham Stouffville Hospital | |
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| Markham Stouffville Hospital Corporation | |
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 Location in Ontario
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| Geography | |
| Location | Markham, York Region, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°53′04″N 79°13′58″W / 43.884444°N 79.232778°WCoordinates: 43°53′04″N 79°13′58″W / 43.884444°N 79.232778°W |
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| Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP) |
| Hospital type | Community |
| Affiliated university | University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine |
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| Emergency department | II III Trauma center |
| Helipad | TC LID: CPH7 |
| Beds | 309 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1990 |
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| Website | http://www.msh.on.ca/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
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Markham Stouffville Hospital Terminal
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Markham Stouffville Hospital VIVA station
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| Bus operators | York Region Transit |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | Curbside stops |
| Disabled access | Yes |
| Other information | |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1990 |
Markham Stouffville Hospital is an acute care (309 beds) and community hospital serving south-east York Region. The hospital is located on Ninth Line north of Highway 7 in east-end Markham, Ontario, Canada, immediately south of the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville. It is also referred to as a base hospital, as a resource centre for paramedics region-wide.
Opened in 1990, it was created to relieve stress on York Central Hospital in Richmond Hill and hospitals in the north part of Toronto. MSH is the only hospital in Markham and one of two in south York Region. It was one of a few Greater Toronto Area hospitals dealing with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) patients.
In 2004, Uxbridge Cottage Hospital became a partner site with MSH.
In 2010, MSH became an affiliated and community teaching hospital linked with the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine.
The original complex was built by Zeidler Partnership Architects and the current expansion by Bregman+Hamann and Perkins+Will.
MSH is a popular hospital for ambulance re-directs from east-end Toronto hospitals with bed shortages.
Services provided at MSH:
The hospital's helipad designation is (TC LID: CPH7). An original heliport was located at the east end of the hospital to facilitate medical airlifts to and from the hospital. Transfer of patients requires a journey of approximately 150 ft (46 m) from the pad to the near entrance at the rear. Upon completion of the rebuilding of the hospital in 2014, the helipad is now on the roof of the new emergency wing and allows the transfer of patients directly into the hospital building. The new pad is an elevated octagon shaped pad which connects the roof of the hospital by a steel frame with a ramp to the entrance to the hospital. The relocation provides a safer landing area given that the old pad was next to public access roads around the rear of the hospital. The old pad site was removed (along with a Windsock nearby) during the re-development of the new Cornell Community Centre and used as a parking/storage space by construction crews.
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