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Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
Baycrest is a research and education hospital on Bathurst
Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1918 for the care of the
elderly. While Baycrest serves all of the elderly, it was originally founded by
and for the Jewish community and thus caters specifically to the needs of the
Jewish elderly, including those of Holocaust survivors. Baycrest's facilities
include a full-service hospital, the Jewish Home for the Aged nursing home, the
Baycrest Terrace Assisted Living facility, and a research facility affiliated
with the University of Toronto.
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Bridgepoint Health
Bridgepoint Health is a rehabilitation hospital in Toronto
and affiliated with the University of Toronto. Its mission includes
rehabilitation, treatment of complex chronic disease and management of
disability.
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Etobicoke General Hospital
The Etobicoke General Hospital was opened in 1972. It has
262 hospital beds and serves over 230 000 residents in Etobicoke and the
surrounding areas. The hospital cares for over 50 270 outpatients, 15 785
inpatients, and 64 044 emergency visits. It employs 1026 health care
professionals, and has more than 200 affiliated family physicians and
specialists. It also has 400 dedicated volunteers including a wide variety of
co-operative education students. It is a member of the William Osler Health
Centre group of hospitals.
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Hospital for Sick Children
The Hospital for Sick Children, also known as SickKids, is
a world-renowned children's hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a
teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, and it is home to
the world's second largest hospital-based paediatric research facility. It was
founded in 1875, inspired by the example of Great Ormond Street Hospital in
London, England. The hospital is located on University Avenue in the city's
Discovery District, a block south of Queen's Park near Queen's Park and St.
Patrick subway stations.
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Humber River Regional Hospital
Humber River Regional Hospital is a major hospital serving
the former cities of North York and York, Ontario. It operates from three sites:
York Finch campus - formerly York-Finch Hospital, Church Street campus -
formerly Humber Memorial Hospital and Keele Street campus - formerly
Northwestern Hospital. The three sites serves 800,000 residents in the northwest
GTA, plus patient catchment area that stretches from the eastern edge of Toronto
to Barrie.
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Mount Sinai Hospital
Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH) is a hospital in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada. Although it is physically linked by bridges and tunnels to two
University Health Network hospitals (Toronto General Hospital and Princess
Margaret Hospital), Mount Sinai is an independently operated facility. It is one
of many hospitals on Hospital Row, a section of University Avenue where several
major hospitals are located.
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North York General Hospital
North York General Hospital (NYGH) is one of Toronto's many
hospitals and serves the area of north central Toronto (formerly North York).
The current Chief of Medicine is Dr. David Baron. It is also a teaching hospital
for the University of Toronto.
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Princess Margaret Hospital
Princess Margaret Hospital is located in downtown Toronto,
Ontario, Canada on University Avenue at College Street. It is part of the
University Health Network. Located in the city's Discovery District, Princess
Margaret is a cancer research hospital fully affiliated with the University of
Toronto, and is under royal patronage of Anne, Princess Royal, as a member of
the Canadian Royal Family. The hospital was named after the late Princess
Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Rouge Valley Health System
Rouge Valley Health System is the operating body for two
hospitals and three outpatient mental health facilities in east Toronto and west
Durham Region: Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering (Ajax) and Rouge Valley Centenary
(Scarborough).
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Runnymede Healthcare Centre
Runnymede Healthcare Centre is a story of historic
endurance, determined persistence and passionate commitment. Since 1945, it has
endured as one of Canada's most innovative hospitals for a diversity of young
and older adults who require the specialized care and treatment that can no
longer be given at home. In the face of an ever changing healthcare system and
the challenges of a physical structure originally built as a public school in
1908, Runnymede has maintained a fierce determination to keep its doors open to
the community and people it has served for over 60 years.
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Scarborough Hospital
The Scarborough Hospital (TSH) is located in Scarborough, a
district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Scarborough Hospital was created in
September 1998, through the amalgamation of The Salvation Army Scarborough Grace
Hospital and Scarborough General Hospital.
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St. John’s Rehab Hospital
St. John’s Rehab Hospital is the only hospital in Ontario
solely dedicated to specialized rehabilitation. As the site of Canada’s only
dedicated organ transplant rehabilitation program and Ontario's only dedicated
burn rehabilitation program, the hospital develops individually customized
inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services.
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St. Joseph's Health Centre
St. Joseph's Health Centre is a large Catholic community
hospital in western Toronto. Founded in 1921, the hospital's history is linked
to Sunnyside Residence orphanage, which was founded by the Congregation of the
Sisters of St. Joseph's in 1876. The hospital once had a school of nursing, but
it was closed in 1974. Our Lady of Mercy Hospital was a separate hospital
created in 1941 and located next to St. Joseph's. The two hospitals merged in
1980.
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St. Michael's Hospital
St. Michael's Hospital is a Catholic teaching hospital in
Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It offers tertiary and quaternary care for
patients throughout Ontario. It is unique in many areas and offers services in
cardiovascular surgery, neurosurgery, inner city health and therapeutic
endoscopy (after absorbing the Wellesley endoscopy group, which had to relocate
when Wellesley Hospital was closed).
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Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, abbreviated SHSC and
known simply as Sunnybrook, is an academic health sciences centre located in
Toronto, Ontario. It is the largest trauma centre in Canada and is one of two
major trauma centres in Toronto; the other is St. Michael's Hospital. It offers
comprehensive care and is a national leader in image-guided therapies.
Sunnybrook recently made history when it received an unprecedented $74.6 million
dollar research award. It is one of the fastest growing hospitals in North
America, and is scheduled to become the nation's largest maternity hospital.
Sunnybrook is home to the Edmund Odette Regional Cancer Centre and the Schulich
Heart Centre, both national leaders in the respective areas of medicine. As of
October 2008, Sunnybrook was named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers by
Mediacorp Canada Inc., which was announced by the Toronto Star newspaper.
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Toronto East General Hospital
Toronto East General Hospital is a teaching hospital
located at 825 Coxwell Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, in the former borough of East
York. The hospital has 382 acute care beds, as well as 13 rehabilitation and 75
complex continuing care beds. In 2006/07, the hospital had over 60,000 emergency
room visits and more than 19,000 in-patient admissions.
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Toronto General Hospital
The Toronto General Hospital (TGH), is a part of the
University Health Network, and a major teaching hospital in downtown Toronto,
Ontario. It is located in the Discovery District, directly north of the Hospital
for Sick Children, across Gerrard Street West, and east of Princess Margaret
Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital, across University Avenue. They are steps from
Queen's Park and the Queen's Park subway station.
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Toronto Grace Hospital
Run by the Salvation Army, the Toronto Grace Hospital first
opened in 1905. Located on the corner of Church and Bloor Street in downtown
Toronto. The six-storey facility was known as a maternity hospital up to the
1970's when the hospital closed its pregnancy ward. It was one of the first
hospitals in Canada to introduce palliative care. It is now a long term and
palliative care facility.
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Toronto Western Hospital
The Toronto Western Hospital is located at the corner of
Bathurst Street and Dundas Street West in Toronto, Canada. It is part of the
University Health Network. TWH has 256 beds, with 46,000 visits to its emergency
department annually. It is known for neurosurgery and was one of the first
centers in Canada to use the gamma knife. It is also home to the Donald K.
Johnson Eye Centre.
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Trillium Health Centre
Trillium Health Centre is a hospital serving the residents
of central and south Mississauga and south Etobicoke (now the western part of
the City of Toronto) in Ontario, Canada, and has campuses located in Mississauga
and Etobicoke/West Toronto. It was formed with the amalgamation of the
Mississauga Hospital and the Queensway General Hospital in April 1998.
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West Park Healthcare Centre
Located on a picturesque piece of land on the banks of the
Humber River in West Toronto, West Park Healthcare Centre has been helping
patients live the fullest lives possible since 1904. Founded as a sanitarium for
tuberculosis patients, West Park has expanded on its role as a leader in
tuberculosis care to develop services for other respiratory illnesses and
complex conditions.
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Women's College Hospital
Women's College Hospital, or The New Women's College
Hospital is a teaching hospital in downtown Toronto. Women's College Hospital
maintains a focus on women's health, research in women's health, and ambulatory
care. It was given the distinction of being the only 'collaborating centre' in
the Western Hemisphere designated by the World Health Organization.