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Grand River Hospital is one of Ontario’s largest community hospitals. GRH provides excellent patient-centred care to the over 500,000 residents of Waterloo Region and Wellington County.
Through innovation and collaboration, Grand River Hospital has become a leader in the provision of patient care programs for our community, within available resources.
Grand River Hospital’s role is to provide our community with health services within the following 14 clinical programs and services:
- Cancer care;
- Childbirth;
- Children’s
- Complex continuing care;
- Critical care;
- Emergency;
- Laboratory medicine;
- Medical imaging;
- Medicine;
- Mental health and addictions;
- Pharmacy;
- Rehabilitation;
- Renal care; and
- Surgery
Grand River Hospital provides these services at the Freeport Site, the Kitchener-Waterloo Site, and several satellite clinics throughout the region in partnership with community hospitals and other health service providers.
Some of our admissions and service volumes by fiscal year are as follows:
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2010/2011 |
2009/2010 |
2008/2009
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Overall admissions
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23,391 |
22,172 |
21,971 |
| Births |
4332
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4261 |
4,297 |
| Day surgery visits |
12,671 |
12,434 |
12,715 |
Emergency visits
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58,596 |
58,878 |
57,445 |
| Ambulatory care visits |
210,557 |
211,101 |
201,681 | GRH has approximately 1584 support staff and 1410 nursing staff for a total of 2994. The hospital also has 513 credentialed staff, including physicians and 25 midwives. |
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