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Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare

hospital in Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ5964514 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare is a 313-bed regional provider of post-acute care services in Windsor-Essex. This includes all programs and services at the Prince Road campus such as complex care, palliative care, regional rehabilitation, cardiac wellness, bariatric services, specialized mental health and addictions, and children's mental health.

History

The Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital was created by an agreement between two hospitals to share services. In 1991, the CEOs of the hospitals began meeting to discuss the options. An agreement was signed two years later on December 1, 1993, and after about three years of discussions and planning, the alliance went into effect as of April 1, 1994.

Hôtel-Dieu of St. Joseph Hospital

Hôtel-Dieu of St. Joseph Hospital is the oldest hospital in Windsor, Ontario. It was founded in 1888 by Dean James Theodore Wagner, pastor of St. Alphonsus Parish, and five sisters from the Religious Hospitallers of St.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare” as hospital in Canada. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1993, 1994, 1888—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Hôtel-Dieu, Grace and Healthcare can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5964514. Authority coordinates are 42.308, -83.032. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991, 1993, 1994 and 1888.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.