6-638: Victoria General Hospital ( VGH ) is an acute care facility located in View Royal , British Columbia , Canada , a western suburb of Victoria . VGH provides emergency, general surgery and medical treatment services. It is one of two acute-care hospitals on southern Vancouver Island, along with the Royal Jubilee Hospital . VGH is the only one of the two hospitals which provides maternity services. The facility has 344 acute care beds, 30 Neuro-Rehabilitation beds and 40 Geriatric Ward beds. It
12-515: A severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery. In medical terms, care for acute health conditions is the opposite from chronic care, or longer-term care . Acute care services are generally delivered by teams of health care professionals from a range of medical and surgical specialties. Acute care may require a stay in a hospital emergency department , ambulatory surgery center , urgent care centre or other short-term stay facility, along with
18-421: Is also a teaching hospital for UBC's Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. The current hospital was constructed in 1983. It was known as Victoria General Hospital North until Victoria General Hospital South (in downtown Victoria) was closed a year later. VGH South was known before 1983, as Victoria General Hospital and before that as St. Joseph's Hospital. St. Joseph's Hospital was founded in 1875, and taken over from
24-721: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Victoria by the provincial government in 1972. Victoria General Hospital is one of three hospitals supported by the Victoria Hospitals Foundation, which also provides financial support to the Royal Jubilee Hospital and the Gorge Road Hospital , both in Victoria. Acute care Acute care is a branch of secondary health care where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for
30-850: The Special Commission of Inquiry into Acute Care Services in NSW Public Hospitals", known as The Garling Report , documented a series of high-profile medical controversies in the New South Wales public hospital system, and issued over one hundred recommendations that stimulated considerable discussion and controversy. A federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) "requires most hospitals to provide an examination and needed stabilizing treatment, without consideration of insurance coverage or ability to pay, when
36-541: The assistance of diagnostic services, surgery, or follow-up outpatient care in the community. Hospital-based acute inpatient care typically has the goal of discharging patients as soon as they are deemed healthy and stable. Acute care settings include emergency department, intensive care, coronary care, cardiology, neonatal intensive care, and many general areas where the patient could become acutely unwell and require stabilization and transfer to another higher dependency unit for further treatment. The 2009 "Final Report of
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