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Toronto's standards for education and health care are among the highest in the world. The city benefits from an extensive medical community, world-class medical institutions and research facilities.
In the pursuit of high-quality health care, Toronto researchers continue to make staggering advances in some of the most highly competitive and rapidly changing areas of modern health care research. More than $2 million is spent daily on medical research.
Ontario's publicly funded health care system is recognized as among the best in the world for quality service, facilities and administration. Ontario residents are eligible for Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), a provincially funded medical plan that provides free, essential hospital and medical care to all Ontario residents.
Toronto's hospitals
Toronto has the most sophisticated and comprehensive array of hospital services in Canada. Along University Avenue, in the heart of downtown Toronto, can be found Canada's leading children's hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children; the country's leading cancer hospital, the Princess Margaret Hospital; one of the world's leading centres in biomedical research, the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital; Trillium Health Centre - West Toronto; and one of Canada's leading academic health centres; the Toronto Division of the University Health Network.
St. Joseph's Health Centre
St. Joseph's Health Centre is a 376-bed accredited Catholic community teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, providing health care services to half a million people living in Toronto’s West end. St. Joseph's Health Centre is continually opening new services to meet the needs of their communities including a major redevelopment initiative that will add a new patient care wing to the Health Centre by 2010-2011.
For more information, please log onto www.stjoe.on.ca or call the Public Affairs Department at 416-530-6387.
The Hospital for Sick Children
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), affiliated with the University of Toronto, is Canada's most research-intensive hospital and the largest centre dedicated to improving children's health in the country. As innovators in child health, SickKids improves the health of children by integrating care, research and teaching.
With a staff that includes professionals from all disciplines of health care and research, SickKids provides the best in complex and specialized care by creating scientific and clinical advancements, sharing knowledge and expertise and championing the development of an accessible, comprehensive and sustainable child health system.
Princess Margaret Hospital
Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH), a teaching hospital of the University of Toronto, has achieved an international reputation as a global leader in the fight against cancer and is considered one of the top comprehensive cancer treatment and research centres in the world. Princess Margaret Hospital, together with its research institute the Ontario Cancer Institute, is a member of the University Health Network. Princess Margaret Hospital is the only facility in Canada devoted exclusively to cancer research, treatment and education.
The hospital accommodates 220 patient beds, 160,000 square feet of research space, and 17 radiation treatment machines, making PMH the largest radiation treatment centre in Canada and one of the largest treatment facilities in the world. Princess Margaret Hospital can serve 10,000 new patients a year - over 500 patients a day - and sees about 190,000 outpatients annually for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.
Princess Margaret Hospital ranks among the top centers in the world for bone marrow transplantation, and has achieved a solid international reputation as having some of the longest surviving bone marrow transplant recipients in the world. The hospital's bone marrow transplant unit, established in 1971, was the first in Canada to perform allogeneic transplants -- transplants between unrelated donors.
The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital
The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, a University of Toronto affiliated research centre, is one of the world's leading centres in biomedical research. The Institute comprises 100,000 sq. ft of laboratory space, with an additional 25,000 sq. ft. of pre-clinical research laboratory space.
The Institute's departments include Medical Genetics, Biochemistry, Pathology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Bioengineering, Physiology, Surgery and Pathology. Over 200 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and clinical research fellows are being trained in the Lunenfeld's research programs each year.
The research programs at the Lunenfeld are focused on eight interrelated programs to understand the function of genes and how genetic pathways and environmental factors lead to the development of human disease such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, premature labour, depression and osteoporosis.
Trillium Health Centre - West Toronto
A two-site facility hospital, Trillium Health Centre continues to expand in response to the growing health care needs of the residents it serves in Toronto, Mississauga and the surrounding region. At Trillium Health Centre - West Toronto, we have consolidated our leading-edge ambulatory care centre to offer community residents access to one of the most convenient and comprehensive outpatient services in the country.
Trillium Health Centre - West Toronto features a 14-hour Urgent Care Centre; the Surgicentre, the largest day surgery centre in North America; a comprehensive Diabetes Management Centre; a widely recognized Cardiac Wellness & Rehabilitation Centre; the Kingsway Financial Spine Centre, the first comprehensive spine centre of its kind in Canada; and the Betty Wallace Women's Health Centre with a focus on early intervention and screening of osteoporosis and breast disease.
University Health Network
University Health Network (UHN) combines the skills, proud histories and stellar reputations of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital. UHN is among the world's leading providers of exemplary patient care and innovative research and teaching. Here's a glimpse at UHN - a great place to work, learn, research and practice patient care.
UHN Patients
| Patients served |
| |
Princess Margaret Hospital |
Toronto General Hospital |
Toronto Western Hospital |
Non-site specific |
UHN total |
| Beds |
115 |
353 |
239 |
|
707 |
| Inpatient days |
38,749 |
118,608 |
82,496 |
|
239,853 |
| Ambulatory visits |
209,784 |
224,788 |
388,446 |
6,114 |
829,132 |
| Emergency visits |
n/a |
26,292 |
41,765 |
|
68,057 |
Patient origin
(based on inpatients) |
| Toronto |
57.6% |
| GTA |
15.6% |
| Ontario |
25.1% |
| Other Canada
(out of province) |
1.4% |
| Other country |
0.3% |
Our research
UHN research
(revenues by source in $000) |
| Total number of Researchers |
465 |
| Senior Scientists |
152 |
| Scientists |
47 |
| Affiliate Scientists |
46 |
| CRU/CSRC members |
220 |
| Total number of Trainees |
881 |
| Fellows |
387 |
| Graduate students |
364 |
| Other students |
130 |
| Staff |
1083 |
| Research space |
480,000 sq. ft. |
| Publications |
1191 |
| Total research funding |
$160,700 |
| Peer review grants |
$98,602 |
| Industry grants |
$13,095 |
| Other grants |
$16,950 |
Our staff, students and volunteers
| The Faces Behind UHN |
| Our staff |
|
| Employees |
11,137 |
| Female |
71.97% |
| Male |
28.03% |
| Full-time |
66.14% |
| Part-time |
33.86% |
| Students |
|
| Medical |
1,580 |
| Nursing students |
1,308 |
| Pharmacy |
120 |
| Rehab students |
87 |
| Other |
115 |
| Students total |
3,210 |
| Physicians total |
1,308 |
| Volunteers total |
1,400 |
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