Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
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Place | Toronto, Ontario, (Canada) |
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Care System | Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP) |
Hospital Type | General |
Affiliated University | University of Toronto |
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Emergency Dept. | Level I trauma centre |
Beds | Unknown |
History | |
Founded | 1948 |
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Website | Homepage |
See also | Hospitals in Canada |
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre or Sunnybrook, is a hospital located in Toronto, Ontario. The origins of Sunnybrook go back to the 1880s. The Sunnybrook campus first opened in 1943 after the land, Sunnybrook Farm, was donated by Joseph and Alice M. Kilgour. The Sunnybrook Veterans Hospital opened its doors in June 1948. The hospital merged with Women's College Hospital and the Orthopaedic and Arthritic Hospital in June 1998 under the provisions of Bill 51, but Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre was deamalgamated in April 2006 to create Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the separate Women's College Hospital. Currently, Sunnybrook maintains two campuses, with its main campus (Sunnybrook Hospital) on Bayview Avenue in North York and the satellite Holland Institute (orthopedic and arthritic care) on Wellesley St. E.
Besides being a research hospital for the University of Toronto (since 1966), the hospital is the largest trauma centre in Canada and is one of two major trauma centres in Toronto. The other trauma centre is at St. Michael's Hospital. The Kilgour Wing (K Wing) is a long term care centre with the large majority of patients being war veterans. The hospital was a centre used to handle the wounded after World War II.
Services
- Home Aging & Veterans Care
- Neurosciences
- Holland Orthopaedic & Arthritic Centre
- Perinatal & Gynaecology
- Schulich Heart Centre
- Cardiac Surgey - Cardiac Electrophysiology (Arrhythmia Services) - Cardiac Catheterization - Cardiology
- Edmond Odette Cancer Centre
- Trauma
- General Health
- The Ross Tilley Burn Centre
The hospital employes over 12,000 staff, physicians, volunteers and medical students.
Holland Orthopaedic and Arthritic Centre
The Holland Centre consists of the Orthopaedic Program at Sunnybrook and is located at the two sites of Sunnybrook.
The Holland Orthopaedic and Arthritic Centre was initially founded as the Orthopaedic and Arthritic Hospital by Dr. James E. Bateman and Charles S. Wright II in 1955 based on a charter procured by Dr. C. Stewart Wright, an orthopaedic surgeon. It was founded as a specialty hospital for the treatment of patients with orthopaedic ailments. The building it was founded in was a sanitorium and since then it has undergone a series of renovations and additions.
In 1998, Ontario's Bill 51 amalgamated the hospital into Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre.
As part of the Ontario initiative to reduce hospital wait-times, the Holland Orthopaedic and Arthritic Centre was named as a centre of excellence in Joint Replacement.
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Fully Affiliated Health Care Institutions Bloorview · CAMH · Mount Sinai · Sick Kids · St. Michael's · Sunnybrook · Toronto Rehab · University Health Network (Toronto General Hospital · Toronto Western Hospital · Princess Margaret Hospital) · Women's College Hospital |
Community Hospitals/Health Care Institutions St. Joseph's · North York General · Scarborough General · Surrey Place · Toronto East General · West Park |