Ste. Anne’s Hospital remains fully operational and will continue to offer quality and innovative health care services to our traditional Veterans of the Canadian Forces who are hospitalized as well as to those who will require hospitalization in the future. It also continues to offer health care services to younger generation Veterans who don’t require long tern hospitalization but rather specialized out-patient mental health and rehabilitation services for operational stress injuries.
Services provided to “traditional aging Veterans”:
• Ste. Anne’s Hospital has 446 beds for long term care geriatric hospitalization. Each of these beds is located in newly renovated private rooms of which 116 are located in the Remembrance Pavilion specialized in psycho geriatrics (dementia). The Hospital also offers home care support services to aging Veterans of the community through its Liaison Day Centre;
• Following the modernization of the Hospital, which was completed in 2009, there have been a diminishing number of requests for hospitalization by admissible traditional Veterans of the Second World War and of the Korean War whose average age is well over 88 years.
Services provided to younger generation Veterans:
• Between 200 and 300 Veterans of the younger generation receive health care services from Ste. Anne’s Hospital for traumas related to operational stress injuries including post-traumatic stress disorders. They receive these specialized services through out-patient clinics for mental health problems, a pain management clinic and rehabilitation programs including a residential treatment clinic.
Visit the link of Ste. Anne’s Hospital on the Veterans Affairs Canada Web site to get additional information.
The transfer of Ste. Anne’s Hospital
to the Government of Quebec
In brief
Since it was established 93 years ago, Ste. Anne’s Hospital’s “raison d’être” has been to serve Veterans, to provide them with the highest standards of care, and to be a symbol of remembrance for the community and the country. This commitment to Veterans will remain at the core of Ste. Anne’s Hospital’s mission regardless of ownership.
Presently
• Canadian Veterans continue to receive quality health care services from Ste. Anne’s Hospital.
• Veterans of the Second World War and of the Korean War continue to be admitted for hospitalization to Ste. Anne’s Hospital.
• Younger generation Veterans of peacekeeping missions and military operations having served in areas including Bosnia, Rwanda, Afghanistan and countless others, continue to receive specialized out-patient health care services for operational stress injuries.
• Younger generation Veterans continue to have access to hospitalization services for short term stabilisation and residential rehabilitation programs.
• Ste. Anne’s Hospital Foundation continues to be a viable and essential partner to support the quality of services to Canadian Veterans who receive services from Ste. Anne’s Hospital.
• Ste. Anne’s Hospital Foundation continues to need the financial support from its donors and from the community to pursue its ongoing mission.
What to expect in the future
• The process to transfer the hospital from Veterans Affairs to the provincial government could take a number of years.
• With the aging of the traditional Veteran population of the Second World War and of the Korean War, the number of requests for hospitalization from these Veterans will decrease rapidly over the next few years, leaving even more beds unoccupied.
• The eventual admission of civilians to beds unoccupied by Veterans would serve our community in desperate need of long term care beds for its aging population.
• Plans for an eventual transfer of the hospital will benefit Veterans and residents of our community alike as well as ensure that the hospital continues to be a leader in geriatrics and other areas of expertise it has developed.
• The first priority of the Government of Canada is to ensure that our Veterans at Ste. Anne’s continue to receive priority access to the exceptional care they have earned and deserve, in the official language of their choice, now and after the hospital is transferred to provincial jurisdiction. The Government of Canada will continue to fund a high level of quality health care services for Veterans and assure the necessary resources to this end.
• Hospitalized Veterans will continue to benefit from the same high quality care they have always received over the years. These services include hospitalization for traditional Veterans of the Second World War and of the Korean War, specialized out-patient health care services for younger generation Veterans who suffer from operational stress injuries, as well as hospitalization services for short term stabilisation and residential rehabilitation programs.
• Veterans across the country will continue to receive high quality health care services, whether provided directly by Veterans Affairs Canada or, contracted by Veterans Affairs Canada to provincial or private health care providers.
The Foundation’s future
• Ste. Anne’s Hospital Foundation will continue to support the well-being of Veterans at Ste. Anne’s Hospital and welcomes the challenge of supporting a new clientele from our community that will eventually receive hospitalization and other health care services from Ste. Anne’s Hospital.
• The Foundation will continue to support Ste. Anne’s Hospital and its unique areas of expertise such as psycho geriatrics and operational stress injuries by financing the development of new technologies and research that lead to better quality health care services for Veterans and all Canadians.
• The Foundation will continue to rely on financial support from its traditional donors for the care of Canadian Veterans at Ste. Anne’s Hospital.
• The Foundation will welcome financial contributions from the community to sustain its enlarged mission which will also include supporting high quality health care services to non-Veteran residents and out-patient clients.
