1945 to the present
Archbishop James C. McGuigan of Toronto, Ontario, encouraged the RHSJ of Kingston to accept a new mission and open the only Catholic Hospital in the Niagara Peninsula. In 1945, Sisters Mary Immaculate Kennedy, Brennan and Callaghan arrived at St. Catharines where they opened a 29 bed maternity hospital in 1948 in the Woodruff Mansion.
A new 125 bed Hotel-Dieu opened its doors on Ontario St. In 1969, The Hotel Dieu became one of the first hospitals in Ontario to use audiometric testing to detect hearing problems in infants. Throughout the years renovations, as well as new construction was carried out New wings provided expanded in-patient and out-patient services, an eye clinic, intensive Coronary Care Unit, the region’s only renal dialysis center, oncology clinic , palliative care, etc.
In 2000, the restructuring of hospital by the Ontario government brought about changes in the Hotel-Dieu Hospital. In 2005, the Hotel-Dieu changed its mandate from providing acute care to complex care and rehabilitation. The RHSJs gave up the Hotel-Dieu Hospital and assumed governance and management of the Shaver Hospital and the Niagara Rehabilitation Center. The new Hotel-Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Center continues to provide complex continuing care and rehabilitation, including out-patient rehabilitation services such as audiology and speech pathology.
This health care complex is a member of the Catholic Health Care International health system.
Today, two RHSJ are present in this institution: one as a volunteer; the other, as Director of Pastoral Care Services.
Archbishop James C. McGuigan of Toronto, Ontario, encouraged the RHSJ of Kingston to accept a new mission and open the only Catholic Hospital in the Niagara Peninsula. In 1945, Sisters Mary Immaculate Kennedy, Brennan and Callaghan arrived at St. Catharines where they opened a 29 bed maternity hospital in 1948 in the Woodruff Mansion.
A new 125 bed Hotel-Dieu opened its doors on Ontario St. In 1969, The Hotel Dieu became one of the first hospitals in Ontario to use audiometric testing to detect hearing problems in infants. Throughout the years renovations, as well as new construction was carried out New wings provided expanded in-patient and out-patient services, an eye clinic, intensive Coronary Care Unit, the region’s only renal dialysis center, oncology clinic , palliative care, etc.
In 2000, the restructuring of hospital by the Ontario government brought about changes in the Hotel-Dieu Hospital. In 2005, the Hotel-Dieu changed its mandate from providing acute care to complex care and rehabilitation. The RHSJs gave up the Hotel-Dieu Hospital and assumed governance and management of the Shaver Hospital and the Niagara Rehabilitation Center. The new Hotel-Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Center continues to provide complex continuing care and rehabilitation, including out-patient rehabilitation services such as audiology and speech pathology.
This health care complex is a member of the Catholic Health Care International health system.
Today, two RHSJ are present in this institution: one as a volunteer; the other, as Director of Pastoral Care Services.