The Home News magazine was first issued in 1957 to keep the public informed about the activities and operation of the Jewish Home for the Aged and Baycrest Hospital. Initially, it also provided residents with a forum for expression as some of them sat on the magazine's Editorial Board. In Sept. 1969, the publication changed its name to Baycrest News to reflect Baycrest's name change to the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. Another change to the publication took place in 1982, when its format was altered from a magazine to a tabloid. It was issued between three and four times each year. Baycrest News is no longer published.
Scope and Content
Sub-series consists of issues of the Baycrest News and its predecessor, Home News.
This item is a photograph of Dora Till with Abe Posluns and an unidentified woman at the groundbreaking for the New Baycrest Hospital. All three are holding gold ceremonial shovels in the ground. Pictured on the far left is Sid Cooper.
Subjects
Building
Hospitals
Repro Restriction
Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
File consists of general brochures, information handbooks, patient lists, and Audiology Clinic appointment form, and a map and directions to the Baycrest Centre.
In 1913 a charitable organization called the Ezras Noshim Society was formed to help elderly women. Ezras Noshim start collecting funds in 1917 to purchase a home that would be converted into Toronto's first Jewish Old Folks Home. The forerunner to Baycrest Centre opened in 1919 as the Toronto Jewish Old Folks Home on Cecil Street in downtown Toronto, where the women of Ezras Noshim made beds, cooked kosher meals, washed sheets, and sponsored fundraising events.
In 1954, the Jewish Home for the Aged opened on Bathurst Street to accomodate their expanding needs and a new feature: Baycrest Hospital.
This location continued to expand including a new building for residents in 1968, the Baycrest Terrace and The Joseph E. and Minnie Wagman Centre in 1976. These additions enabled Baycrest to expand their services to include a community centre, an enhanced apartment building, a home for the aged, a day care service and a hospital.
In 1986 a new Baycrest Hospital was erected, and in 1989, the Rotman Research Institute, which is also affiliated with the University of Toronto, opened to create a research facility enabling top researchers to study and find new treatment methods for the elderly.
In recent years, Baycrest's research activities have expanded to include the Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation Unit (est. 1995), which evaluates clinical programs and conducts long-term studies of health issues affecting older adults and the Kunin Lunenfeld Clinical Research Unit (est. 1996), which links researchers with Baycrest clinical departments to enable prompt implementation of research findings. These two programs merged in 1998 to become the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit.
Apotex Centre, the Jewish Home for the Aged and the Louis and Leah Posluns Centre for Stroke and Cognition opened in 2000. This centre is responsible for residents with progressive dementia and vascular dementia.
Baycrest Centre also provides numerous cultural and religious programs for the inhabitants and the greater community, including a heritage museum, art exhibits and a Holocaust program.
Scope and Content
Photograph of the groundbreaking ceremony for Baycrest Hospital on Bathurst Street, which was erected along with the new building of the Jewish Home for the Aged.
Abe Posluns is on the far right.
Name Access
Baycrest Hospital
Posluns, Abe
Subjects
Building
Hospitals
Portraits, Group
Repro Restriction
Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
This file contains Board of Director lists for the Mount Sinai Hospital and an itinerary for a volunteer training workshop held at the Bloor and Spadina YM-YWHA.
File consists of two exterior views of the new Mount Sinai Hospital at 550 University Avenue, Toronto. The remaining five photos are interior shots of equipment, a research lab, and Dr. N. N. Levinne.
File consists of correspondence regarding the building of, and fundraising for, the New Mount Sinai Hospital. Also included is a summary report on fundraising pledges.
File consists of records documenting the activities of the Women's Auxiliary's Baycrest News Editorial Committee. Included are meeting notices and minutes, memos, correspondence, and articles submitted for publication. Also included is a photograph of editors of the Baycrest News, Miriam Kerzner (left) and Frances Wintrob (right).
File consists of meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, annual reports and administrative forms for or related to the Jewish Home for the Aged and Baycrest Hospital. Included in the file is the code of intake policies and procedures, the final draft of the constitution and general by-laws.
With the post-war expansion of Toronto's Jewish population, the original Mount Sinai Hospital on Yorkville Avenue became overcrowded, while its treatment capacities appeared ever-more outdated. By 1949, an improved economy made it possible to begin the necessary planning for a much large replacement hospital at 550 University Avenue. Although fundraising for the construction this facility was not the responsibility of the United Jewish Welfare Fund, many of its senior executives were also on the hospital's board. Also, the entire Toronto Jewish Community was to be canvassed for the funds to build it. The proven fundraising expertise of the UJWF, its donor lists, and the goals of its own annual campaign ensured that constant correspondence and cooperation between the two was both necessary for success and vital to the avoidance of campaign competition. The continued success and growth of community contributions to both was the outcome of this ongoing collaboration. The New Mount Sinai Hospital opened in mid-1953, while the campaigns to continue improving and expanding its resources continue to the present.
Scope and Content
Series consists of correspondence and occasional reports documenting the relationship between the UJWF and the board of the New Mount Sinai Hospital about the fundraising campaigns for the new hospital being constructed on Univeristy Avenue during the 1950s. Also included are two photographs of the new hospital. Files in this sub-series have been arranged chronologically.
Accession consists of photographs documenting the construction of the New Mount Sinai Hospital at 550 University Avenue, Toronto.Included are photos of a building fund exhibit, surgeons in an operating room, and mother and baby in a maternity ward room.
Administrative History
The New Mount Sinai Hospital was first envisioned in 1944 and the sod turning was held in 1948. The hospital moved from the Yorkville location with the opening of the new building in 1953. In 1974 Mount Sinai moved to a third location next door at 600 University Avenue. The old site at 550 University has been used by several rehabilitation organizations, and is currently a branch of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.
File consists of records documenting the opening of the Jewish Home for the Aged and Baycrest Hospital. Included are programmes, correspondence, and photographs of Fred Gardiner (mayor of North York) speaking at a podium, a crowd gathered outside the building, and people looking out the windows in the building. Leslie Frost is also likely captured in the photographs standing with his wife.
Physical Condition
The photographs were removed from a scrapbook and still have some glue residue on the verso. Some of the photographs also have bent and missing corners.
File consists of one image of Rabbi Gunther Plaut visiting the Jewish Home for the Aged, and one image of the architectural model of the new Jewish Home for the Aged and Baycrest Hospital.
Repro Restriction
Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
31 photographs : col. slides and b&w negatives ; 35 mm
Scope and Content
File contains 35 mm colour slides of the chapels at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and for the Mt. Sinai Hospital chapel. 35 mm negatives are of the Beth Abraham Jacob Synagogue at the Joseph and Minnie Wagman Centre.
Subjects
Synagogues
Repro Restriction
Copyright is not held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
This file consists of small photographs of Maurice Berg, staff, and visitors at the Weston Sanitorium. The illness Berg was suffering from is unknown but may have been tuberculosis.
Notes
Some details of Berg's experience in the hospital can be found in his diary from 1935, File 1.