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History
The Queensway General Hospital
In the late 1940s it became clear to many that a general
hospital was needed to serve the area between Toronto and
Oakville. The proposal for a hospital was received with enthusiasm
by both industry and the local community.
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1951 |
The Lakeshore Hospital Association was incorporated.
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1952 |
The name 'Queensway' was
chosen following a 1952 contest among Lakeshore- West
Toronto school children, which was won by nine-year-old
Joan Smith, who later would become a nurse and worked
in the hospital that she named.
With a charter, a name, a site and a plan, the Association
set about to raise the $2 million needed from the private
sector to build the hospital. |
1956 |
In August 1956, the 131-bed facility admitted its first
patients. |
1960s |
The hospital, responding to the dramatic growth in
the area and an increased demand for its acute care services,
was enlarged to house 309 beds. |
1984 |
Responding to its increasingly aging population, the
hospital entered into an innovative joint venture with
a private entrepreneur to construct and administer a 120-bed
chronic care wing. Opened on December 11, 1984, the George
St. Leger McCall Wing represented cooperation between
a public hospital and the private health care sector,
the first of its kind in Canada. |
1990 |
The Goodhealth Centre was established, a referral and
resource service for seniors and their caregivers. |
1998 |
On April 1, 1998, The Mississauga Hospital and The Queensway
General Hospital merged, and on an interim basis, the
new organization was called 'The Mississauga-Queensway
Hospital'. |
1998 |
At ceremonies on October 6, 1998, the hospital's new
name 'Trillium Health Centre' was unveiled at events at
both the Mississauga location and West Toronto location.
The West Toronto location becomes the Ambulatory Care
Centre for Trillium Health Centre. |
Over the years, West Toronto's first hospital built and sustained
a meaningful relationship with the residents of West Toronto
and eastern Mississauga by being, first and foremost, a family
hospital. The cornerstone of the 429-bed hospital's success
was its ability to continually meet the needs of a growing,
cosmopolitan community through the delivery of appropriate
quality health care.
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