Bethesda Regional Health Centre, formerly Bethesda Hospital, is a hospital in Steinbach, Manitoba, one of seventeen hospitals operated by the Southern Health - Santé Sud Regional Health Authority. Bethesda is the largest hospital in the Eastman region. The hospital currently has 73 beds to serve the community and area, a new expansion that will add 23 beds began construction in 2023.[2][3]
The first hospital in Steinbach opened in 1929 by Abram Andreas Vogt and his sister Maria and operated under the name of the Vogt Hospital.[4][5] He and his sister operated the facility which then served as a home for disabled and chronically ill patients and was taken over by a local church in 1945.[5] The current building of the Bethesda Regional Health Centre opened in 1963 as a 63 bed facility and its name was taken from the biblical Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem where Jesus miraculously healed a paralyzed man.[2][4]
The hospital underwent a $22 million upgrade to the Emergency Room in 2012.[6][7] The expansion was necessitated by the rapid population growth in the city of Steinbach and area.[8][9] A further CA$23 million expansion for the hospital began in 2023 with a westward expansion of the hospital to establish a new six-station renal dialysis unit and adding a further 15 acute care beds as well as eight surgical beds.[3][10] A short time later, the Government of Manitoba announced another CA$33 million dollar expansion in 2023 to add three modern operating rooms in the hospital and bringing the cost of the expansion to CA$64 million.[11]
The emergency room at Bethesda Regional Health Centre received approximately 25,000 visits a year as of 2011 and prior to the expansion in 2012.[12]
In 2020, 455 births took place at the hospital's obstetrics department.[13]
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