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About Baycrest Hospital

Although Baycrest Hospital serves a variety of in-patient needs, it is not an acute care hospital. This means patients do not have access to certain services such as surgery and certain diagnostic procedures.

The seven-storey, 300-bed Hospital (Ben and Hilda Katz Building) includes five patient-care floors, with two Units per floor designated as East or West as follows:

Long-stay Units

Complex Continuing Care:

• 5 East
• 5 West
• 6 East
• 7 East
• 7 West  

Short-stay Specialized Units

• Monitored/Step Down Transitional Care: 3 East
• Geriatric Assessment and Treatment Unit/In Patient Rehabilitation: 3 West
• In Patient Behavioural Neurology: 4 West In Patient Psychiatry: 4 East
• Palliative Care: 6 West

 

Each Unit has rooms containing four beds (ward), two beds (semiprivate) or one bed (private), and each room has its own bathroom. We encourage patients and families to personalize their environment with family photos and other familiar, personal objects.

Each floor also has a large Activity Room which is available for recreational activities and meetings and may also be used as a dining room for patients. Each Unit has its own nursing station, a kitchenette/servery, and a small Quiet Room which patients and visitors can use when they need some privacy.