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Saint Boniface Hospital

January 01, 1970

Saint Boniface Hospital (French: Hôpital Saint-Boniface; also called St. B; previously called the Saint-Boniface General Hospital) is Manitoba's second-largest hospital, located in the Saint Boniface neighbourhood of Winnipeg.[2] Founded by the Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns) of Montreal in 1871, it was the first hospital in Western Canada.[3][4] The hospital was incorporated in 1960, and as of 2020 has 436 beds and 30 bassinets.[1]

Saint Boniface Hospital
L'Hôpital Saint-Boniface
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Main entrance of St. Boniface Hospital
Geography
Location409 Taché Avenue, St. Boniface,(Winnipeg), Manitoba R2H 2A6, Canada
Coordinates49°53′4″N 97°7′30″W / 49.88444°N 97.12500°W / 49.88444; -97.12500
Organization
Care systemPublic Medicare (Canada)
TypeGeneral, Teaching, Research
Affiliated universityUniversity of Manitoba
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds466 (30 nursing bassinets)[1]
Public transit access10 St. Boniface-Wolseley
56 Saint Boniface
History
Opened1871
Links
Websitewww.sbgh.mb.ca
ListsHospitals in Canada

St. Boniface Hospital is a tertiary health care facility,[2] employing nearly 3,500 staff and 340 doctors with admitting privileges.[5] The hospital buildings cover about 120,774 m2 (1,300,000 sq ft).[6] The St. Boniface Hospital & Research Foundation is the primary fundraising organization for the hospital. The general admissions program cares for 4,000 patients per year in-hospital, and about 40,000 as outpatients. Over 5,000 births per year occur at the hospital. St. Boniface is a regional centre for cardiac care, and is one of two specialized laboratory testing facilities. It also provides diagnostic imaging and hemodialysis for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.

Besides patient care, St. Boniface Hospital also carries out medical research and offers practicum positions for university students through its affiliation with the University of Manitoba.[7] The hospital's primary research mandate is in cardiovascular studies, imaging (especially MRI), neurodegenerative disorders, and nutraceuticals. The hospital also participates in clinical trials of research discoveries.

Location edit

St. Boniface Hospital is located near the Red and Assiniboine Rivers in the St. Boniface neighbourhood of Winnipeg, which is home to a large proportion of Manitoba's Francophone population.[8] It lies across the river from downtown and The Forks.[9] The hospital has a parking structure and three parking lots.[10] It also has an ambulance bay.

History edit

 
The original hospital building, c. 1871

St. Boniface Hospital was established by the Grey Nuns in 1871, the first hospital west of Quebec.[11] At that time, it was a small facility with four beds.[12] An operating room was added in 1894.[13] The Grey Nuns opened a school of nursing in 1897 and used the hospital to teach patient care.[14] By the early 1900s, the hospital was treating approximately 2,500 patients per year.[15] An isolation hospital and nurse's residence was added in 1900.[16] Due to overcrowding, a new addition was built in 1905, effectively doubling the patient capacity of the hospital.[17] It was awarded provisional approval by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in 1944,[18] later becoming the office of the Manitoba Chapter of the ACS.[19] As of 2003, the hospital has 554 beds and 78 bassinets.[8]

The hospital order was incorporated in 1960 under the name St. Boniface General Hospital, giving it the right to invest and borrow money, own property, and collect fees for services.[20] St. Boniface Hospital, along with the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, opened the first hospice programs in Canada in 1975.[21] The Hospital Research Centre opened in 1987, becoming the first Canadian free-standing medical research facility.[22] During the 1997 Red River flood, the hospital had to be evacuated, and has since created a disaster plan to cope any future evacuations or closures.[2]

The Institute for stained glass in Canada has documented the stained glass at St Boniface Hospital.[23]

Funding edit

Basic medical care is a benefit provided to all Canadians through Canada's publicly funded health system.[24] However, significant additional funding is required for medical research, improvements in patient services, and the clinical programs found at St. Boniface Hospital. The hospital ended the 2008 fiscal year with a Can$900,000 deficit.[25] The St. Boniface Hospital & Research Foundation, founded in 1971, is the primary fundraising organization for St. Boniface Hospital and the Research Centre. By the end of 2006, the Foundation had raised over Can$100 million for patient care and research.[26]

Research edit

The St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre is the hospital's main research facility. It comprises three separate units: the G. Campbell MacLean Building, the Dr. Andrei Sakharov MRI Centre, and the I. H. Asper Clinical Research Institute, which are operated with research grants, industry contracts, fundraising, and funding from the University of Manitoba.[27] The centre opened in 1987.[28] Its primary research mandate addresses three main areas: cardiovascular sciences, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy, and degenerative disorders associated with aging. In addition, the Centre undertakes research in anesthesia, epidemiology, family medicine, infectious diseases, nephrology, nursing, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, sleep disorders, and surgery.[29]

Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences edit

St. Boniface Hospital's Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences researches heart disease at the cellular and molecular levels.[30] It also hosts the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, the journal Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences, and its journal Experimental & Clinical Cardiology.[31][32] The Institute was created as the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences in 1987 by Dr. Naranjan Dhalla.[30] Its researchers have been published in such academic journals as the New England Journal of Medicine and Cardiovascular Research.[33][34]

Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders edit

The Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders (DND) was established in 1999.[35] The DND is a neurodegenerative research team working to identify causes and treatments for disorders like Alzheimer’s, strokes, traumatic brain injury, and central nervous system degeneration, to study the effect of diabetes on neurodegeneration, and to conduct sleep studies.[35][36][37] As of 2011, the principal investigators collectively have over 150 journal publications.[38]

Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine edit

The Canadian Centre for Agri-food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM) investigates nutraceuticals and health food in partnership with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada.[39] CCARM’s mandate is to research natural health products and give the results to the scientific community and the general public.[40] The results of their research have been published in numerous academic journals, including the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the Journal of Biological Chemistry.[41][42]

MRI centre edit

The Dr. Andrei Sakharov Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Facility, the first of its kind in Manitoba, has three MRI scanners.[43] The facility allows radiologists to diagnose abnormalities of the brain, spinal cord, internal organs and joints.[44] St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre is a recognized leader in the MRI field and has one of the largest MRI research facilities in Canada.[43] An MRI was first installed at St. Boniface in 1990; this MRI was eventually replaced by a more modern version, which is primarily used for clinical purposes.[45] The other two MRIs are research-oriented: they are an interventional scanner and a head-only functional unit.[45] The clinical scanner enables the Centre to do echo-planar imaging, producing images at video rates;[46] the interventional MRI gives physicians access to the patient during imaging, which supports research into robotics-guided laser surgery.[47] Research carried out at the centre has been published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.[48]

Clinical research edit

 
I. H. Asper Clinical Research Institute

The I. H. Asper Clinical Research Institute facilitates clinical trials of the discoveries made at the Research Centre.[49][50] The Institute is the third research facility in Canada to conduct tests on new drugs and medical devices.[51] The I. H. Asper Clinical Research Institute was opened in 2004.[49]

Education edit

St. Boniface Hospital is affiliated with the University of Manitoba's education and research branches, providing internship and practicum positions for students.[52] The hospital works with multiple University of Manitoba faculties, including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, social work, respiratory therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, as well as with Red River College and Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface.[52] St. Boniface Hospital also hosts the Winnipeg Critical Care Nursing Education Program.[53]

Services edit

St. Boniface is one of Manitoba's two tertiary care centres.[2][54] Patients are referred to the hospital by their doctors or clinics for specialized care, though most are admitted through the emergency department.[55] The Medicine Program is the adult general admissions program. This program admits around 4,000 patients per year, and treats around 40,000 through outpatient clinics.[56] Services include: internal medicine, endocrinology, rheumatology, respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, hematology, oncology, pathology and neurology. The outreach program also includes at-home intravenous therapy and nutrition.[56] The hospital has 14 operating rooms; there is also a surgical intensive care unit available for recovery. The surgical department treats over 14,000 patients per year.[57]

Emergency Department edit

St. Boniface's emergency department provides acute care for an average of over 100 patients per day, and is the second busiest emergency department in Winnipeg.[58] The emergency room had the third longest wait times in Canada as of 2016.[59] Patient visits are expected to rise dramatically in the next few years, as smaller emergency departments in Winnipeg are closed down as part of a region-wide restructuring effort; expansion of the emergency department began in the summer of 2022. [60][61]

Family Medicine Program edit

The Family Medicine Program is designed to encourage disease prevention and health maintenance.[62] It also includes a palliative care unit, the first nationally accredited palliative residency program in Canada.[28] The Rehabilitation Program provides inpatient and outpatient physiotherapy.[63] The Mental Health program provides psychological and counselling services to adult and adolescent patients. It also maintains an inpatient program, and provides stress counselling to hospital staff.[64]

Cardiac Sciences Program edit

The Cardiac Sciences Program (including the departments of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Cardiac Anesthesiology and Critical Care) is an integrated heart health unit designed to treat cardiac problems.[28] The Bergen Cardiac Care Centre provides access to tertiary cardiology care and hosts cardiac operations and diagnostics, the only hospital in Manitoba to offer certain specialized services.[65][66] It includes three cardiac angiography rooms, one pacemaker and cardiac defibrillator room, one room for procedures in electrophysiology, 17 recovery beds, cardiology clinics, echocardiography rooms, and office space.[67]

Diagnostic imaging edit

St. Boniface is one of eight hospitals in Winnipeg providing diagnostic imaging services, and is part of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's diagnostic imaging program.[68] It provides: angiography, bone density imaging, CT scans, MRIs, mammography, nuclear medicine tests, ultrasounds and X-rays.[69] St. Boniface was the home of Manitoba's first MRI scanner, and is one of the largest diagnostic MRI facilities in Western Canada.[43]

Laboratories edit

The laboratories at the St. Boniface Hospital operate under the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's Laboratory Medicine Program; St. Boniface is one of the two main referral sites in the WRHA for specialty tests.[70] They run tests in biochemistry, hematology, immunology, microbiology, cytology and pathology for patients and doctors in Manitoba.[71] They also provide some specialized testing facilities for educational institutions.[71]

Manitoba Renal Program edit

St. Boniface Hospital provides acute and chronic hemodialysis as part of the Manitoba Renal Program.[72] It also has a renal health clinic to assess patients with kidney problems.[72]

Woman & Child Program edit

The Woman & Child Program cares for 11,500 patients annually, providing gynecological and obstetrical services, outpatient pediatric care and women's services.[73] Over 5,000 births per year occur at St. Boniface Hospital.[74] The Labour and Delivery department includes services for high-risk deliveries. The family care unit includes fifteen beds for obstetrical patients.[73] The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) cares for 600 premature or ill infants per year; 10% of the births at St. Boniface involve ill or premature babies.[75]

Assessment edit

St. Boniface reports 80% patient satisfaction with its services, according to internal inpatient surveys.[25] Mortality rates for inpatients stand at around 2.4%.[25] Unlike the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada does not publish national ratings of individual hospitals.[76]

According to internal reviews, the hospital reduced average wait times for acute care surgical patients from 10 hours to 3 between October 2008 and February 2009.[25] As of 2009, the hospital is trying to reduce wait times for emergency room patients.[77] Wait times for scheduled diagnostic services range from 4 weeks for bone density tests to 20 weeks for a myocardial perfusion study.[78] The median wait time for cardiac surgery is 26 days.[79]

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External links edit

  • Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
  • St. Boniface Hospital
  • St. Boniface Hospital Research Foundation

January 01, 1970
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Saint Boniface Hospital French Hopital Saint Boniface also called St B previously called the Saint Boniface General Hospital is Manitoba s second largest hospital located in the Saint Boniface neighbourhood of Winnipeg 2 Founded by the Sisters of Charity Grey Nuns of Montreal in 1871 it was the first hospital in Western Canada 3 4 The hospital was incorporated in 1960 and as of 2020 has 436 beds and 30 bassinets 1 Saint Boniface HospitalL Hopital Saint BonifaceWinnipeg Regional Health AuthorityMain entrance of St Boniface HospitalGeographyLocation409 Tache Avenue St Boniface Winnipeg Manitoba R2H 2A6 CanadaCoordinates49 53 4 N 97 7 30 W 49 88444 N 97 12500 W 49 88444 97 12500OrganizationCare systemPublic Medicare Canada TypeGeneral Teaching ResearchAffiliated universityUniversity of ManitobaServicesEmergency departmentYesBeds466 30 nursing bassinets 1 Public transit access10 St Boniface Wolseley56 Saint BonifaceHistoryOpened1871LinksWebsitewww wbr sbgh wbr mb wbr caListsHospitals in Canada St Boniface Hospital is a tertiary health care facility 2 employing nearly 3 500 staff and 340 doctors with admitting privileges 5 The hospital buildings cover about 120 774 m2 1 300 000 sq ft 6 The St Boniface Hospital amp Research Foundation is the primary fundraising organization for the hospital The general admissions program cares for 4 000 patients per year in hospital and about 40 000 as outpatients Over 5 000 births per year occur at the hospital St Boniface is a regional centre for cardiac care and is one of two specialized laboratory testing facilities It also provides diagnostic imaging and hemodialysis for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Besides patient care St Boniface Hospital also carries out medical research and offers practicum positions for university students through its affiliation with the University of Manitoba 7 The hospital s primary research mandate is in cardiovascular studies imaging especially MRI neurodegenerative disorders and nutraceuticals The hospital also participates in clinical trials of research discoveries Contents 1 Location 2 History 3 Funding 4 Research 4 1 Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences 4 2 Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders 4 3 Canadian Centre for Agri Food Research in Health and Medicine 4 4 MRI centre 4 5 Clinical research 5 Education 6 Services 6 1 Emergency Department 6 2 Family Medicine Program 6 3 Cardiac Sciences Program 6 4 Diagnostic imaging 6 5 Laboratories 6 6 Manitoba Renal Program 6 7 Woman amp Child Program 7 Assessment 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksLocation editSt Boniface Hospital is located near the Red and Assiniboine Rivers in the St Boniface neighbourhood of Winnipeg which is home to a large proportion of Manitoba s Francophone population 8 It lies across the river from downtown and The Forks 9 The hospital has a parking structure and three parking lots 10 It also has an ambulance bay History edit nbsp The original hospital building c 1871 St Boniface Hospital was established by the Grey Nuns in 1871 the first hospital west of Quebec 11 At that time it was a small facility with four beds 12 An operating room was added in 1894 13 The Grey Nuns opened a school of nursing in 1897 and used the hospital to teach patient care 14 By the early 1900s the hospital was treating approximately 2 500 patients per year 15 An isolation hospital and nurse s residence was added in 1900 16 Due to overcrowding a new addition was built in 1905 effectively doubling the patient capacity of the hospital 17 It was awarded provisional approval by the American College of Surgeons ACS in 1944 18 later becoming the office of the Manitoba Chapter of the ACS 19 As of 2003 the hospital has 554 beds and 78 bassinets 8 The hospital order was incorporated in 1960 under the name St Boniface General Hospital giving it the right to invest and borrow money own property and collect fees for services 20 St Boniface Hospital along with the Royal Victoria Hospital Montreal opened the first hospice programs in Canada in 1975 21 The Hospital Research Centre opened in 1987 becoming the first Canadian free standing medical research facility 22 During the 1997 Red River flood the hospital had to be evacuated and has since created a disaster plan to cope any future evacuations or closures 2 The Institute for stained glass in Canada has documented the stained glass at St Boniface Hospital 23 Funding editBasic medical care is a benefit provided to all Canadians through Canada s publicly funded health system 24 However significant additional funding is required for medical research improvements in patient services and the clinical programs found at St Boniface Hospital The hospital ended the 2008 fiscal year with a Can 900 000 deficit 25 The St Boniface Hospital amp Research Foundation founded in 1971 is the primary fundraising organization for St Boniface Hospital and the Research Centre By the end of 2006 the Foundation had raised over Can 100 million for patient care and research 26 Research editThe St Boniface Hospital Research Centre is the hospital s main research facility It comprises three separate units the G Campbell MacLean Building the Dr Andrei Sakharov MRI Centre and the I H Asper Clinical Research Institute which are operated with research grants industry contracts fundraising and funding from the University of Manitoba 27 The centre opened in 1987 28 Its primary research mandate addresses three main areas cardiovascular sciences magnetic resonance imaging MRI and spectroscopy and degenerative disorders associated with aging In addition the Centre undertakes research in anesthesia epidemiology family medicine infectious diseases nephrology nursing nutraceuticals pharmaceuticals sleep disorders and surgery 29 Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences edit St Boniface Hospital s Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences researches heart disease at the cellular and molecular levels 30 It also hosts the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology the journal Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences and its journal Experimental amp Clinical Cardiology 31 32 The Institute was created as the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences in 1987 by Dr Naranjan Dhalla 30 Its researchers have been published in such academic journals as the New England Journal of Medicine and Cardiovascular Research 33 34 Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders edit The Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders DND was established in 1999 35 The DND is a neurodegenerative research team working to identify causes and treatments for disorders like Alzheimer s strokes traumatic brain injury and central nervous system degeneration to study the effect of diabetes on neurodegeneration and to conduct sleep studies 35 36 37 As of 2011 the principal investigators collectively have over 150 journal publications 38 Canadian Centre for Agri Food Research in Health and Medicine edit The Canadian Centre for Agri food Research in Health and Medicine CCARM investigates nutraceuticals and health food in partnership with Agriculture and Agri food Canada 39 CCARM s mandate is to research natural health products and give the results to the scientific community and the general public 40 The results of their research have been published in numerous academic journals including the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the Journal of Biological Chemistry 41 42 MRI centre edit The Dr Andrei Sakharov Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI Facility the first of its kind in Manitoba has three MRI scanners 43 The facility allows radiologists to diagnose abnormalities of the brain spinal cord internal organs and joints 44 St Boniface Hospital Research Centre is a recognized leader in the MRI field and has one of the largest MRI research facilities in Canada 43 An MRI was first installed at St Boniface in 1990 this MRI was eventually replaced by a more modern version which is primarily used for clinical purposes 45 The other two MRIs are research oriented they are an interventional scanner and a head only functional unit 45 The clinical scanner enables the Centre to do echo planar imaging producing images at video rates 46 the interventional MRI gives physicians access to the patient during imaging which supports research into robotics guided laser surgery 47 Research carried out at the centre has been published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 48 Clinical research edit nbsp I H Asper Clinical Research Institute The I H Asper Clinical Research Institute facilitates clinical trials of the discoveries made at the Research Centre 49 50 The Institute is the third research facility in Canada to conduct tests on new drugs and medical devices 51 The I H Asper Clinical Research Institute was opened in 2004 49 Education editSt Boniface Hospital is affiliated with the University of Manitoba s education and research branches providing internship and practicum positions for students 52 The hospital works with multiple University of Manitoba faculties including medicine nursing pharmacy social work respiratory therapy physiotherapy and occupational therapy as well as with Red River College and College universitaire de Saint Boniface 52 St Boniface Hospital also hosts the Winnipeg Critical Care Nursing Education Program 53 Services editSt Boniface is one of Manitoba s two tertiary care centres 2 54 Patients are referred to the hospital by their doctors or clinics for specialized care though most are admitted through the emergency department 55 The Medicine Program is the adult general admissions program This program admits around 4 000 patients per year and treats around 40 000 through outpatient clinics 56 Services include internal medicine endocrinology rheumatology respiratory medicine gastroenterology hematology oncology pathology and neurology The outreach program also includes at home intravenous therapy and nutrition 56 The hospital has 14 operating rooms there is also a surgical intensive care unit available for recovery The surgical department treats over 14 000 patients per year 57 Emergency Department edit St Boniface s emergency department provides acute care for an average of over 100 patients per day and is the second busiest emergency department in Winnipeg 58 The emergency room had the third longest wait times in Canada as of 2016 59 Patient visits are expected to rise dramatically in the next few years as smaller emergency departments in Winnipeg are closed down as part of a region wide restructuring effort expansion of the emergency department began in the summer of 2022 60 61 Family Medicine Program edit The Family Medicine Program is designed to encourage disease prevention and health maintenance 62 It also includes a palliative care unit the first nationally accredited palliative residency program in Canada 28 The Rehabilitation Program provides inpatient and outpatient physiotherapy 63 The Mental Health program provides psychological and counselling services to adult and adolescent patients It also maintains an inpatient program and provides stress counselling to hospital staff 64 Cardiac Sciences Program edit The Cardiac Sciences Program including the departments of Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Cardiac Anesthesiology and Critical Care is an integrated heart health unit designed to treat cardiac problems 28 The Bergen Cardiac Care Centre provides access to tertiary cardiology care and hosts cardiac operations and diagnostics the only hospital in Manitoba to offer certain specialized services 65 66 It includes three cardiac angiography rooms one pacemaker and cardiac defibrillator room one room for procedures in electrophysiology 17 recovery beds cardiology clinics echocardiography rooms and office space 67 Diagnostic imaging edit St Boniface is one of eight hospitals in Winnipeg providing diagnostic imaging services and is part of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority s diagnostic imaging program 68 It provides angiography bone density imaging CT scans MRIs mammography nuclear medicine tests ultrasounds and X rays 69 St Boniface was the home of Manitoba s first MRI scanner and is one of the largest diagnostic MRI facilities in Western Canada 43 Laboratories edit The laboratories at the St Boniface Hospital operate under the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority s Laboratory Medicine Program St Boniface is one of the two main referral sites in the WRHA for specialty tests 70 They run tests in biochemistry hematology immunology microbiology cytology and pathology for patients and doctors in Manitoba 71 They also provide some specialized testing facilities for educational institutions 71 Manitoba Renal Program edit St Boniface Hospital provides acute and chronic hemodialysis as part of the Manitoba Renal Program 72 It also has a renal health clinic to assess patients with kidney problems 72 Woman amp Child Program edit The Woman amp Child Program cares for 11 500 patients annually providing gynecological and obstetrical services outpatient pediatric care and women s services 73 Over 5 000 births per year occur at St Boniface Hospital 74 The Labour and Delivery department includes services for high risk deliveries The family care unit includes fifteen beds for obstetrical patients 73 The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit NICU cares for 600 premature or ill infants per year 10 of the births at St Boniface involve ill or premature babies 75 Assessment editSt Boniface reports 80 patient satisfaction with its services according to internal inpatient surveys 25 Mortality rates for inpatients stand at around 2 4 25 Unlike the United Kingdom and the United States Canada does not publish national ratings of individual hospitals 76 According to internal reviews the hospital reduced average wait times for acute care surgical patients from 10 hours to 3 between October 2008 and February 2009 25 As of 2009 the hospital is trying to reduce wait times for emergency room patients 77 Wait times for scheduled diagnostic services range from 4 weeks for bone density tests to 20 weeks for a myocardial perfusion study 78 The median wait time for cardiac surgery is 26 days 79 See also editList of hospitals in Canada Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg References edit a b Hospital Beds Staffed and In Operation 2020 2021 Canadian Institute for Health Information Retrieved 18 April 2023 a b c d Cloutier Real J Jan Greenwood Jeffrey R Malawski Kenneth P Tremblay Winter 1997 1998 Disaster Planning St Boniface Hospital A Case Study of the Flood of the Century Hospital Quarterly Longwoods Publishing 32 37 Retrieved 1 November 2009 Stewart Lindsay 2004 Neighbourshoods Strolling St Boniface St Joseph Media Archived from the original on 26 September 2011 Retrieved 5 April 2012 Painchaud Robert 2000 Fafard Theogene Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online University of Toronto Universite Laval Retrieved 1 November 2009 Facts and Figures Hopital St Boniface Hospital Retrieved 26 November 2019 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