Have Questions?Your Guide to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Posted by Steve Jones
Mon, Feb 3, 2014
Sunnybrook began as a hospital for Canadian veterans, but has grown into a fully affiliated teaching hospital of the University of Toronto to meet the needs of the growing community. Sunnybrook is now the largest single-site hospital in Canada.
Sunnybrook Campuses
Bayview Campus
2075 Bayview Avenue
Toronto, ON
Canada M4N 3M5
416-480-6100
Holland Orthopaedic & Arthritic Centre
43 Wellesley St. East
Toronto, ON
Canada M4Y 1H1
416-967-8500
St. John’s Rehab
285 Cummer Avenue
Toronto, ON
Canada M2M 2G1
416-226-6780
416-226-6265
About Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
In addition to treating over one million patients each year, Sunnybrook also employs over 200 researchers and spends more than $100 million in medical research every year. Even though the hospital has grown from serving veterans to the rest of the community, it still uses nearly half of its beds for long-term care and veteran patients. Sunnybrook is also a teaching hospital, immersing students in a variety of health care specialities.
Specialties
Sunnybrook is passionate about research and finding cures for the untreatable. For this reason, Sunnybrook has four strategic areas of focus:
- Heart and Stroke patients
- Many types of cancer
- Trauma, emergency, and critical care
- Women and babies
Education
As a proud academic health sciences centre, Sunnybrook hosts thousands of students each year to learn from their expert staff and physicians. Students learn through interpersonal education (when two or more professionals learn with and from each other to provide greater health outcomes).
Funding
Private donors have provided more than $36 million for many projects, including the expansion of the Schulich Heart Centre and Canadas most advanced maternity ward. Sunnybrook keeps a watchful eye on funds, ensuring every dollar is being put toward new facilities, breakthrough research, and for the acquisition of the most advanced equipment.
Affiliations
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is affiliated and has partnered with many local, provincial, national, and international organizations. Perhaps the most influential affiliation is with the University of Toronto. Other partnerships include many local hospitals, Ontario Women’s Directorate, Health Canada, Kidney Foundation of Canada, and the Children’s Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai.
Career Opportunities
Sunnybrook staff on caring for patients, conducting leading-edge research, teaching the latest technological advancements, and working with the University of Toronto to be distinguished as Canadas premier academic health sciences centres.
Visit Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre’s career page for a complete listing of available positions.
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