Editing Kitchener, Ontario (section)

==Health care==
[[File:St. Mary's General Hospital Kitchener Ontario 2015.jpg|thumb|left|St. Mary's General Hospital]]

Hospital services are provided by [[Grand River Hospital]] which includes a Freeport Campus and [[St. Mary's General Hospital]], both located in Kitchener, as well as Cambridge Memorial Hospital.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/living-here/hospitals.aspx|title=Hospitals |publisher=Region of Waterloo|date=2011-02-15 |access-date=2018-12-30}}</ref> All three were highly ranked for safety in a national comparison study in 2017–2018, particularly the two located in Kitchener, but all would benefit from reduced wait times.<ref>{{cite news |title=Waterloo Region hospitals rank well on readmissions, but wait times need work|date=29 November 2018|url=https://www.therecord.com/news-story/9058746-waterloo-region-hospitals-rank-well-on-readmissions-but-wait-times-need-work/|work=Waterloo Region Record|access-date=30 December 2018|quote=Area hospitals ranked well in patient readmissions, but wait times need improving.}}</ref> Long-term care beds are provided at numerous facilities.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wwhealthline.ca/listServices.aspx?id=10665&region=KitchenerWaterlooWellesleyWilmotWoolwich |title=Long-Term Care Homes – Kitchener–Waterloo–Wellesley–Wilmot–Woolwich |publisher=Health Line|date=2018-01-03 |access-date=2018-12-30}}</ref>

Grand River Hospital has a capacity of 574-beds; [[Grand River Hospital|Freeport Health Centre]] was merged into GRH in April 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grhosp.on.ca/about|title=About GRH |publisher=GRH|date=2017-11-15 |access-date=2018-12-30}}</ref> That secondary campus provides complex continuing care, rehabilitation, longer-term specialized mental health and other services.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grhosp.on.ca/care/locations/freeportcampus|title=Freeport Campus: 3570 King Street East, Kitchener|publisher=GRH|date=2017-11-15 |access-date=2018-12-30}}</ref> Built originally as a tuberculosis sanatorium and home for the terminally ill,<ref>Uttley, W.V.: "A History of Kitchener, Ontario", pp.&nbsp;404–406. WLU Press, Waterloo, 1975 (reprint) {{ISBN|0-88920-024-6}}</ref> Freeport also housesthe palliative care unit. The King St. location is also the home of the Grand River Regional Cancer Centre which opened in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grhosp.on.ca/care/locations/freeportcampus|title=Grand River Regional Cancer Centre celebrates 15 years of advanced cancer care this fall |publisher=GRH|date=2018-08-30 |access-date=2018-12-30}}</ref> St. Mary's General Hospital is a 150-bed adult acute-care facility and includes the Regional Cardiac Care Centre with two cardiovascular operating rooms, an eight-bed cardiovascular intensive care unit and 45 inpatient beds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smgh.ca/patient-care-programs/regional-cardiac-care-centre/|title=Regional Cardiac Care Centre|publisher=SMGH|date=2018-09-15|access-date=2018-12-30|archive-date=31 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231043008/http://www.smgh.ca/patient-care-programs/regional-cardiac-care-centre/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smgh.ca/about-us/who-we-are/st-marys-statistics-facts-faqs/|title=About Us|publisher=SMGH|date=2018-09-15|access-date=2018-12-30|archive-date=30 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230233624/http://www.smgh.ca/about-us/who-we-are/st-marys-statistics-facts-faqs/|url-status=dead}}</ref> As of late 2018, Cambridge Memorial had 143 beds but was in the midst of a major expansion expected to be completed in 2021; that will add 54 new beds and double the size of the Emergency department.<ref>{{cite news |title=Banks take control of Cambridge hospital project|date=29 December 2018|url=https://www.therecord.com/news-story/9080473-banks-take-control-of-cambridge-hospital-project/|work=Waterloo Region Record|access-date=30 December 2018|quote=BMO, as a lender and funder, called a performance bond to ensure there is funding to get the work done. Zurich Insurance is Bondfield's insurer.}}</ref>

Family doctors are often in short supply in K-W, and a source of great concern among residents. Recruiting efforts over the previous 15 years certainly achieved some success as of September 2018, but needed to be continued.<ref>{{cite news |title=Doctor recruitment an ongoing issue in Waterloo Region|date=18 September 2018|url=https://www.therecord.com/news-story/8910318-doctor-recruitment-an-ongoing-issue-in-waterloo-region/ |work=Waterloo Region Record|access-date=30 December 2018|quote=Although recruitment efforts over the past 15 years or so have brought many new physicians to the area, many residents are without a family doctor.}}</ref>

Announced January 2006, as a new School of Medicine, the Waterloo Regional Campus of [[McMaster University]] was completed in 2009. In 2018, the campus included "a complete on-site clinical skills laboratory with 4 skills rooms and 2 observation rooms, classrooms with video-conferencing capabilities and a state-of-the-art anatomy lab that was built in 2013 with a high definition video system", according to the university. Its Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine building includes the Centre for Family Medicine and the [[University of Waterloo School of Optometry and Vision Science]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mdprogram.mcmaster.ca/campus/waterloo-regional-campus|title=WATERLOO REGIONAL CAMPUS |publisher=McMaster|date=2018-03-15 |access-date=2018-12-30}}</ref>