YCHhas grown from six beds to 420 YCH operated nursing school NEWMARKET filiated littleknown Hospital It has gone through contributed too much since the hospitals founding June of for anyone to be singled out would be its founders Dr Lowell Dales and Dr J H Wesley both of Newmarket For it was through their faith determination and risk that the first direly needed hospital opened big house on opposite No 1 fireball lawyer Joseph 0 Dales hospital for the community At one point shortly after World War town council launched a determined but unsuccessful drive to obtain Pickering College as a Soldiers Memorial General Hospital The college had been used for convalescing soldiers during the war But support from senior levels of government never came and ironically when the two Newmarket doctors took matters into their own hands and established a private hospital they were unable to get grants from either York County or Newmarket provincial governments Business boomed and throughout 1925 and patients had to be turned away from the little Main St nursing school Thieves stole watchdog too needed and the board purchased the Cane obviously estimated in goods it thee rofH Eli Lilly and Company Canada Limited Extends Its Congratulations To YORK COUNTY HOSPITAL On The Of The Opening Of Their New Expanded Facilities Eli Lilly and Company Canada Limited LTD RESTAURANT INSTITUTIONAL RESTAURANT INSTIl Table Top Specialists Eastslde Drive TORONTO ONT Wish To Congratulate York County Hospital On TheOfficial Opening Of Their New Expanded Facilities CONGRATULATIONS TO York County Hospital From the member Institutions of Hospital Purchasing Inc the group purchasing program for Healthcare Institutions In The Toronto Region Congratulations to York County Hospital From National Baby Formula Service Midwest Road Scarborough Ontario From the first the hospital was busy but obviously strapped for cash By the end of twelve beds were in use and five nurses in attendance A lot of charity work was being handled It was said of the week preceding Sept 24 that every day a grave surgical emergency admitted and successfully treated in fact after six months operation the hospital was able Davis Dr and Prospect St Renovations and addition were started but halfway through the work the building burned to the ground The fire proved fortuitous Out of its ashes rose a brand new brick hospital Opened in this building houses the administration offices and Its guard dog style look January 1923 Dr Dates and another irket physician Dr Stuart Scott made an appeal for a county grant but were turned down i the Cone family as a through an unlocked fro irses residence and on Jan 1946 the hospitals door police reported d capacity rose to 55 with the opening of the socalled Best Wishes From YORKTOWN PHARMACY Davis Dr Newmarket YORK COUNTY HOSPITAL on the opening of the new East Wing Addition today Were open to serve you Frl Saturday 30 am 3 pm Telephone formally known as the Margaret Wing it wing contained the emergency department the laboratory and the radiology automatically closed to the department Now it has a bed medicalsurgical nursing unit the employee health service the morgue and locker rooms The south wing of the hospital the one that is partly hidden from the street side entered service March 1956 and the bed capacity reached although Newmarket still boasted a population hovering around the mark Tills wing had operating rooms the maternity unit rehabilitation services and the dietary department The fourth addition the cast wing contains a new and the building rented and expanded emergency ward radiology and lab a cafeteria and maintenance shops And an additional 143 beds to boost the hospitals total to Today with the formal addition of 164 more bod spaces York County Hospitals capacity has reached beds a far cry from the six it started with in an old house on Main St and it must continue to grow Two years ago hospital administrator predicted that by todays official opening the hospital may well be operating close to Its capacity Even now in the dim secret reaches of the York County Hospital boardroom there may be tentative hospital business and equipment v Dr Crawford Rose of Aurora the hospitals official historian Dr Dales must have breathed a sigh of relief With the greatest courage and in the face of dire adversity lie had proven to himself and to the people of Newmarket that a local hospital lhal it would be operated in a milled to transform fact Now he would and the gradual growth of IN SERVICE FOR YEARS tersecllon of Davis Dr and Prospect St Total t about million Carroll Wire Sales Etabicake Ontario We consider it a privilege to have been chosen as a supplier of equipment for this new modern addition to the York County Hospital Our very best wishes to administration and departmental personnel Carroll Wire Sales Etabicoke Ontario New addition plagued with delays freezes over a J 0year period Today iho ilai formulated tor it and the fact I without heilll i tin Mil Ilfttl government changes in grant si Planning started li hi i hospital to the role of an emergence cart hospital Mr Rubin said York County Hospital SO overloaded the situation had become critical He said Die average length of a patients stay in the Newmarket lospiltl wis program Die li was back on the new government Fire reported in King home Regional Police and delay smoke about rule When lie directors deplore the itigate he discovered kitchen ablaze called firemen said suspected NEWMARKET Lou Hartley I Hi I irn period E of Scarboro and third period John Cole of OPEN HOUSE YORK COUNTY HOSPITAL The Board of Directors of York County Hospital Extends a Cordial Invitation to attend a Tour and Open House of the new East Wing Addition on Wednesday December Oth 975 from pm to 9 pm and on Thursday December 1975 from 30 pm to pm and from 6 pm to 9 pm of the limited parking space you are invited to make a special Bus Service to and from the Newmarket parking lot on Davis Drive and Upper Canada Mall parking lot at the corner of Davis Drive and Street Newmarket