William Osler Health Centre
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The William Osler Health Centre (WOHC) is one of the largest hospital corporations in the Canadian province of Ontario. It serves a geographic area of over 2,400 square kilometres including Brampton and Etobicoke. It provides programs and services to over 900,000 residents of those and surrounding communities. With a health care team of more than 670 physicians, 3,700 staff and 1,000 volunteers, it provides services through two hospital facilities while striving to provide a single standard of care. It has an annual operating budget of $260 million CAD. The hospital is named for Dr. William Osler, a Canadian physicians and one of the most influential figures in the history of modern medicine. Also there was a significant amount of money raised for the hospital, most notably by the Sikh community, which raised up to 2 million dollars.
[edit] Hospitals
- Brampton Civic Hospital – a 608 bed facility in northeast Brampton which opened 2007.
- Peel Memorial Hospital – Closed for renovations
- Etobicoke General Hospital – a 262 bed facility, opened in 1972, located in the west of Toronto
Georgetown Hospital was previously part of the William Osler Health Centre but in 2005 it was transferred to Halton Healthcare Services
