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The Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre is a children's hospital located in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. A children's hospital is a Hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. St John's (ˌseɪntˈdʒanz French Saint-Jean) is the provincial capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and located on the eastern tip Newfoundland and Labrador (ˈnuːfɨn(dlənd ən(d ˈlæbrəˌdɔr (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador is a province of Canada, the tenth and latest to join the Confederation Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page

It was founded as the Dr. Charles Alderson Janeway Child Health Centre in 1966 and used the former base hospital on the recently-closed Pepperrell Air Force Base in the east end of the city. Pepperrell Air Force Base, previously known as Fort Pepperrell, was a former United States Military base located in St It was named after Charles Alderson Janeway, a pediatrician who is credited with helping to establish the hospital. Dr Charles Alderson Janeway (born 1909 in New York City died 1981 in Weston Massachusetts) was an eminent American Pediatrician, medical Professor The name of the facility was modified to its present form in 2001 when a new state of the art facility was opened as an annex of the Health Sciences Centre. The old facility located in the former Pepperrel AFB will be demolished beginning in early-2008 by the provincial government at a cost of approximately $1 million. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common

The Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre includes:

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