Toronto Grace Health Centre

About Toronto Grace Health Centre

History

Toronto Grace Health Centre is a 119 bed palliative and complex continuing care facility that has been providing compassionate care in the heart of downtown Toronto for the past 100 years. From its earliest days as a rescue home, to its conversion to a maternity hospital and laterally to its current role of providing care to come of the city's most vulnerable, the facility continues to provide care where the needs are greatest.

Toronto Grace Health Centre - 100 Year of Care (Publication)

The following is a brief history:

1889: The Salvation Army opens a Rescue Home in Toronto.

1905: The Home becomes The Salvation Army Maternity Hospital on Esther Street.

1909: Hospital moves to the corner of Bloor and Church streets.

1925: An extension is added to what was then called the Toronto Womens Hospital.

1937: The hospital is renamed Toronto Grace.

1959: New building is constructed at Bloor and Church.

1969: Designated a general hospital.

1979: Designated a chronic care and palliative care hospital, opening the first Palliative Care Unit in the Province of Ontario.

1998: The Health Services Restructuring Committee directed the Toronto Grace and three other complex continuing care hospitals to close.

2001: The Ministry of Health reverses the decision and directs Toronto Grace to continue to provide its programs and services. The Hospital Board begins to look at emerging needs in the health system.

2005: Toronto Grace Health Centre celebrates its 100th birthday at Church and Bloor Street in downtown Toronto where it continues to provide its special blend of care.

2007: Toronto Grace Health Centre launches its new logo and new look that reflects the care that is given to patients daily. Toronto Grace shows itself to be a leader on providing Slow-Paced Rehabilitation, Palliative and Complex Continuing Care.