{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2026}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital | org_group = Sinai Health | image = Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital 2022.jpg | image_size = | caption = | logo = Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital logo.jpg | logo_size = | address = 1 Bridgepoint Drive | region = Toronto | state = Ontario | country = Canada | coordinates = {{coord|43|39|59|N|79|21|16|W|region:CA-ON_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | type = Specialist | speciality = Rehabilitation hospital and complex care | emergency = No | affiliation = Temerty Faculty of Medicine (University of Toronto) | beds = 464<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lavoie|first1=Joanna|title=Voluntary merger results in creation of new Sinai Health System|url=https://www.toronto.com/news-story/5294674-voluntary-merger-results-in-creation-of-new-sinai-health-system/|accessdate=February 15, 2018|work=Beach Mirror|date=January 30, 2015|language=en-CA|publisher=Metroland Media Group}}</ref> | founded = 1875 | website = {{URL|www.hennickbridgepointhospital.ca}} }} '''Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital''', formerly '''Bridgepoint Active Healthcare''', is a complex care and rehabilitation hospital in Toronto, Ontario. It is a member of the Sinai Health system and affiliated with the University of Toronto.
In October 2021, Bridgepoint Active Healthcare was renamed Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital in recognition of a $36 million gift from Jay S. Hennick and Barbara Hennick, longtime leaders and supporters of Sinai Health. Jay Hennick was the Chair of the Board of Directors of Mount Sinai Hospital and Sinai Health from 2013 to 2016, while Barbara Hennick sat on the Sinai Health Foundation's Board of Directors and was President of the Auxiliary from 2005 to 2007."<ref>Sinai Health to rename Canada's largest complex care and rehabilitation hospital in celebration of transformative $36 million gift {[https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/sinai-health-to-rename-canada-s-largest-complex-care-and-rehabilitation-hospital-in-celebration-of-transformative-36-million-gift-805468500.html https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/sinai-health-to-rename-canada-s-largest-complex-care-and-rehabilitation-hospital-in-celebration-of-transformative-36-million-gift-805468500.html accessed 2021-10-28]</ref>
==Location== The hospital is located next to the Don River in the Riverdale neighbourhood of Toronto and includes the historic Don Jail building, which is now the administration building for the hospital. The municipal address is 14 St. Matthews Road, Toronto, Ontario, at the corner of Broadview Avenue and Gerrard Street. The hospital building towers over the east side of the Don Valley Parkway.
==History== The "House of Refuge" was built on the site in 1860 as a home for "vagrants, the dissolute, and for idiots". The facility became the "Riverdale Isolation Hospital" in 1875 during a smallpox epidemic.<ref name="e" /> It became a specialized facility located on the edge of the city to house patients with communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis. As times changed, in 1957, the hospital's name and mandate were changed; its focus was shifted to helping those with chronic ailments and/or needing rehabilitation, as the Riverdale Hospital. The architecturally distinctive brown brick "half-round" Riverdale Hospital - which become Bridgepoint Health in 2002 - was completed in 1963; was amalgamated structurally into the new Bridgepoint Active Healthcare campus. In 1997 as part of Mike Harris' cutbacks the government moved to close the original facility, but a community lobbying effort kept it open, and saved the historic Riverdale Hospital building.
===Redevelopment=== In 2003, a $200 million expansion project was announced, which modernized and expanded the facility. The final result is the purpose-built, 10-storey, 404-bed Bridgepoint Hospital building,<ref name="a" /> which is connected by a glass walkway to the old Don Jail building.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://globalnews.ca/news/1296589/torontos-doors-open-event-adds-more-than-40-new-locations/|title=Toronto's Doors Open event adds more than 40 new locations|date=May 23, 2014|work=Peter Kim|publisher=Global News|accessdate=July 14, 2014}}</ref> Part of the former Don Jail was demolished in 2014 as part of the Bridgepoint Redevelopment project.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=http://globalnews.ca/video/1185055/deconstruction-of-the-don-jail-begins|people=Mark McAllister (Reporter)|date=March 3, 2014|title=Deconstruction of the Don Jail begins|location=Canada|publisher=Global News}}</ref>
The Community Master Plan was approved by the City of Toronto in 2006.<ref name="d" /> The new facility serves as a 'living lab' to foster the research and treatment of complex chronic disease. It serves as a research base for the Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation.<ref name="d" />
Bridgepoint Active Healthcare and Infrastructure Ontario partnered with Plenary Health to design, build, finance and maintain the new facility for 30 years after completion.<ref name="d">{{cite web|url=https://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/2501420-bridgepoint-health-unlocking-new-future-for-healthcare/|title=Bridgepoint Health unlocking new future for healthcare|date=March 7, 2013|work=Tara Hatherly|publisher=InsideToronto.com|accessdate=July 14, 2013}}</ref><ref name="e" /> Construction started in the fall of 2009,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://globalnews.ca/news/479096/bridgepoint-hospital-moving-400-patients-to-new-building/|title=Bridgepoint hospital moving 400 patients to new building|date=April 14, 2013|work=Brian McKenchnie|publisher=Global News|accessdate=July 14, 2014}}</ref> and the facility has been fully operational since April 2013.<ref name="c" /><ref name="b" />
Patient services moved to the new hospital building on April 14, 2013.<ref name="a">{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/hospitalnews/docs/hospital_news_september_2013_editio/23?e=8107642/4642397|title=Introducing Bridgepoint Active Healthcare|date=September 1, 2013|work=Marian Walsh|publisher=Hospital News|accessdate=July 14, 2014|archive-date=July 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707112306/https://issuu.com/hospitalnews/docs/hospital_news_september_2013_editio/23?e=8107642/4642397|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media|url=http://ici.radio-canada.ca/widgets/mediaconsole/medianet/6659739|people=Stéphane Blais|date=April 14, 2013|title=Déménagement de l'hôpital Bridgepoint|location=Canada|publisher=Radio-Canada|language=French|access-date=June 8, 2017|archive-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909073929/http://ici.radio-canada.ca/widgets/mediaconsole/medianet/6659739|url-status=dead}}</ref> The 10-storey hospital building is adjacent to the former Don Jail building (completed in 1864), which now serves as the administrative wing of the hospital.<ref name="e">{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/property-report/torontos-bridgepoint-hospital-weaves-healing-into-its-design/article6171194/|title=Toronto's Bridgepoint Hospital weaves healing into its design|date=December 10, 2012|work=Angela Kryhul|publisher=The Globe and Mail|accessdate=March 21, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media|url=http://globalnews.ca/video/479432/touring-the-new-bridgepoint-hospital|people=Kris Reyes (Reporter)|date=April 14, 2013|title=Touring the new Bridgepoint Hospital|location=Canada|publisher=Global News|access-date=July 14, 2014|archive-date=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909113125/https://globalnews.ca/video/479432/touring-the-new-bridgepoint-hospital|url-status=dead}}</ref> The new building officially opened on June 25, 2013.<ref name="c">{{cite web|url=http://globalnews.ca/news/671635/new-bridgepoint-hospital-opens/|title=New Bridgepoint Hospital opens|date=June 25, 2013|work=James Armstrong|publisher=Global News|accessdate=July 14, 2014}}</ref><ref name="b">{{cite AV media|url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2013/06/25/new-bridgepoint-health-centre-officially-opens-in-toronto/|people=Galit Solomon|date=June 25, 2013|title=New Bridgepoint Health Centre officially opens in Toronto|location=Canada|publisher=CityNews}}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery> House of Refuge Toronto 1860s.jpg|House of Refuge, 1865 Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital interior 2025.jpg|Interior of hospital Bridgepoint Hospital and Don Jail.jpg|Newly constructed Bridgepoint Hospital building, connected to the former Don Jail, now the facility's administrative wing BRIDGEPOINT logo.png|Former logo prior to Sinai Health System affiliation </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}} <!--*"What to do with a Riverdale landmark?" Dave LeBlanc. ''The Globe and Mail.'' Toronto, Ont.: June 17, 2005. pg. G.6 *"Hospital blazes a trail in complex care" Brian Dexter. ''Toronto Star.'' Toronto, Ont.: May 10, 2003. pg. K.01-->
==External links== {{Commons category|Bridgepoint Health}} *[http://www.bridgepointhealth.ca Official website] *[http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2009/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-17931.pdf City zoning approval]
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