St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, in partnership with Hamilton Health Sciences, using novel approach to care for patients awaiting physical rehab, long-term care. 

A hotel might not be the first place you’d expect to receive health care. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, when hospital beds and spaces in long-term care were limited, a hotel was the perfect solution to care for patients waiting to be transitioned out of hospital and into community care settings. 

“When push comes to shove, [health-care workers] come together … we put in the hours because we all got into health care for a reason, and it’s to care for patients,” - Amanda Weatherston, Senior Manager, St. Joe’s.

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Learn more about the Satellite Health Facility on StJoes.ca/SHF 

Take a virtual tour of the facility in the below video: