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BON SECOURS DEPAUL MEDICAL CENTER FACT
SHEET
History
In
1855, the City of Norfolk was struck
with a yellow fever epidemic when the
captain of an American steamer ignored
the quarantine of the port authorities
and pumped the ship’s bilge water
into the Elizabeth River. At the height
of the epidemic, between 50-80 people
died each day. Despite the dangers,
eight Sisters of the Daughters of Charity,
who had come to Norfolk in 1839 to operate
the St. Mary’s Orphan Asylum,
offered to nurse the ill and dying door-to-door
and in make-shift hospitals. A wealthy
patron of the orphanage, Ann Plume Behan
Herron, opened and donated her home
to the Daughters of Charity to use as
a hospital. The Hospital of St. Vincent
DePaul, Norfolk’s first public
hospital, was incorporated by the Virginia
Legislature on March 3, 1856. As the
Sisters’ mission expanded, they
added a clinic for the poor in 1892
and started a training school for nurses
in 1893. In 1939, the need was recognized
for a large, more modern facility. The
hospital purchased land at the corner
of Granby Street and Kingsley Lane and
constructed a new building. The new
facility, named DePaul Hospital, admitted
its first patients in May 1944. Throughout
its long history, DePaul Medical Center
maintained a strong commitment to meeting
the needs of patients from throughout
the region. On November 1, 1996, the
sponsorship of DePaul was transferred
from the Daughters of Charity to the
Bon Secours Health System. With the
transfer, the facility was renamed Bon
Secours DePaul Medical Center.
Key
Information
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| Number
of Beds |
Bon
Secours DePaul Medical Center including:
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238
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- DePaul
Rehabilitation Center 14 beds
- Transitional
Care Unit 24 Beds
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| Number
of Employees |
895.2
FTEs |
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| Key
Statistics FY03 |
Emergency
Room Visits: 35,552
Inpatient Discharges: 8,371
Births: 895
Surgeries: 10,716 |
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| Affiliated
Entities
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Ambulatory Centers |
The Ambulatory Care Pavilion
The Eye Center
Bon Secours Health Center at Virginia
featuring: |
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- Bon
Secours Virginia Beach Ambulatory
Surgery Center Beach (proposed
- under COPN review)
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| Continuing
Care Services |
Province
Place of DePaul, a Bon Secours Assisted
Living Residence Transitional Care
Unit
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Other
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Services |
The
Center for Birth
The MidWifery Center
The Endovascular Center
Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE)
Unit
The Senior Health Program, featuring: |
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- The
Senior Health Program and Resource
Center (The Elise and Henry
Clay Hofheimer, II Gerontology
Institute)
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The Senior Assessment Program
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Transportation Services
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The
Wound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen
Center
The Cancer Center
The Image Recovery Center
The Hearing and Balance Center
On-site Express Care Services
in the Emergency Department Bon
Secours Home Care
Bon Secours Private Care
Bon Secours DePaul Health Foundation
Worker’s Compensation Services
in the Emergency
Member of Virginia Health Network
(VHN)
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