1845
September 2: Four Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph (RHSJ) arrive in Kingston
September 4: The RHSJ move into the Hospital Building at 229 Brock Street
September 7: The Sisters see their first patient, Mrs. Delaney, “a very sick woman”
Late October: The RHSJs move into their Monastery at 233 Brock Street
1847
Summer: Construction begins on a new hospital building at 227 Brock St. and will not be completed until 1848
A typhus epidemic arrives in Kingston. Sisters treat Irish immigrants stricken by the disease at the fever tents on the shore
|December 24: 100 Irish orphans are brought to the Hotel Dieu Orphanage
1848
Construction of building connecting hospital & monastery (231 Brock St.) to house Chapel and Novitiate
1869
May to December: Enlarged monastery built at 235 Brock St)
1892
February 26: RHSJ sign the preliminary agreement to acquire the former Regiopolis College building on Sydenham Street
September: Lease for Regiopolis College property formally signed
|Late December: After extensive renovations, patients are moved into the new hospital property on Sydenham Street
1894-1895
Hospital Chapel built
1897
Sisters’ Monastery building built
The RHSJs of Kingston found the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Cornwall; they would go on to found hospitals in Chicago, IL (1903), Polson, MO (1916), Hartford, WI (1926), & St. Catharines, ON (1944)
1899
Modern surgical theatre built on corner of Sydenham & Johnson Streets
1902
Agreement signed with Queen’s University to formally allow medical school faculty to use wards and operating room for the clinical instruction of medical students
1905
Women’s Auxiliary (now Volunteer Services to Hotel Dieu Hospital Inc.) founded
1909
Brock St. Wing expansion built on corner of Sydenham and Brock Streets
1910
Orphanage is transferred to the Sisters of Providence
Obstetrics Department opened
1912
St. Joseph's School of Nursing founded by Sister St. Charles (Louise O’Connor) with first formal classes held June 1913.
1920
Hotel Dieu becomes one of the first hospitals in Ontario to be accredited, earning recognition for excellence
1922
Alumnae of the St. Joseph’s School of Nursing founded
1923
Construction of the second nurses’ residence (now known as the Mary Alice Wing) began replacing he first nurses’ residence at 235 Brock Street
1929-31
St. Joseph’s Wing on Brock St. built.
1935
School of Medical Record Librarians opened, the first of its kind in Canada along with school at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto
1948
Construction begins on the first two floors of the Jeanne Mance Nurses’ Residence; an additional 3 floors completed in 1955
1949
School of Medical Technology opened
1950
Centennial Wing on Johnson St. built, replacing the surgical theatre
1951
Hospital Advisory Board created
1952
The RHSJ English Generalate (later St. Joseph Province) and novitiate moves from the hospital to Mount St. Joseph on Perth Road. In 1957 they would move to the St. Joseph Provincial House in Amherstview
1966
Johnson Wing built, replacing the Sisters’ Monastery
1966
Eric Brown is appointed first lay CEO of the Hospital.
1966
Gastroenterology Unit established, one of the first integrated units in Canada; Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Unit was established in 1982. Both would be renamed after their founder, Dr. Ivan Beck, in 1989.
1971
Pastoral Care Department established
1972
Kingston Health Sciences Complex inaugurated linking local hospitals and Queen’s University to increase cooperation and access to shared funds and to reduce duplication of services
1973
Obstetrics Department transferred to Kingston General Hospital
1974
Last class of the St. Joseph’s School of Nursing graduates
1974-76
Construction of the Family Medicine Centre on Bagot & Johnson Streets
1976-81
Murray Building constructed in the former Public Library building on Bagot Street
1978-84
Jeanne Mance Wing built on site of former nurses’ residence
1983
Detoxification Centre opened.
1984
Child Development Centre and Children's Outpatient Centre, both begun at KGH in the 1970s, open at Hotel Dieu as pediatric services are consolidated at HDH
1985
Native Patient Services (now called Ininew Patient Services) established and Geaganano House opened
1997
Emergency Department closed and Urgent Care Centre is opened
1998
February 23: Health Services Restructuring Report for Frontenac and Lennox & Addington released ordering HDH closed; “Save the Dieu” campaign begun; RHSJs fight order to the Supreme Court of Canada but are ultimately unsuccessful; order to close not rescinded until May 2006
1999
Official opening of the Breast Assessment Centre
2013
Redevelopment Project begun in 2010 is completed, transforming floors 4 & 5 of the Jeanne Mance Wing into clinical space; 80 clinics are transferred from KGH with an annual increase of 50,000 patient visits to the hospital
2016
June 28: Announcement that Hotel Dieu and Kingston General Hospitals would integrate
2017
April 1: HDH and KGH merge into one corporation to become Kingston Health Sciences Centre
2020
Hotel Dieu Hospital celebrates 175 years of compassionate care in Kingston
