St. Joseph's Health Centre's 7th Annual Fall Golf Classic successfully raised $75,000 in support of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that will be located in the new Our Lady of Mercy (OLM) patient care wing when it opens in 2012.

The new OLM wing will provide Toronto's south west community with care close to home in a state-of-the art four-storey patient care wing.

"On behalf of the Foundation, I'd like to thank our main sponsors - Baxter, RBC Investments, BMO Financial Group, Mercer, Specialty Care, Precise ParkLink, Kathleen O'Neill and Armco, as well as our golfers, prize and silent auction donors, hole sponsors and our golf committee for their efforts in coordinating a very successful event, especially in these hard economic times. Your ongoing support continues to help us put patients first, while enhancing the communities we serve," said Barbara Millar, Executive Director, St. Joseph's Health Centre Foundation.

The Our Lady of Mercy Patient Care Wing will be a 130,000 sq.ft 4-storey building that will also house our new Paediatric Unit, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, an expanded Family Birthing Centre, and three new inpatient areas with a total of 92 beds.

When the new Our Lady of Mercy patient care wing opens it will provide the community we serve with:

• 20 bassinettes (an increase from the current 12 bassinettes) in the new NICU
• An expanded Family Birth Centre to accommodate 4,000 births annually (an increase from the over 3,300 births last year)
• A new Paediatrics Unit which will include 6 surgical day care beds, 6 medical day care beds, and 6 observation beds
• 92 inpatient beds
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

The patient care wing is being built on top of the new three-storey underground parking garage, which can accommodate parking for 300 cars.

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