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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.