| St. Michael's Hospital | |
| St. Michael's, Queen Street entrance | |
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Location in Toronto
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| Geography | |
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| Location | 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP) |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine |
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| Emergency department | Level I trauma center |
| Helipad | TC LID: CTM4 |
| Beds | 550 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1892 |
| Links | |
| Website | www.stmichaelshospital.com |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
St. Michael's Hospital is a teaching hospital and medical centre in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was established by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1892, with the founding goal of taking care of the sick and poor of Toronto's inner city.[1] The hospital provides tertiary and quaternary services in cardiovascular surgery, neurosurgery, inner city health and therapeutic endoscopy. It is one of two Level 1 adult trauma centres in Greater Toronto, along with the larger Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
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The hospital is located near the intersection of Queen Street and Yonge Street in downtown Toronto's Garden District. The hospital serves a diverse population that includes the affluent condominium complexes in Harbourfront, the underprivileged of the inner city of Regent Park, and the gay and lesbian community in Church and Wellesley. The hospital has over 550 beds and extensive outpatient clinics.
The current Physician-in-Chief is Dr. Tom Parker,[2] the Surgeon-in-Chief is Dr. Ori Rotstein[3] and the President and CEO is Dr. Bob Howard.[4] The hospital also has a large team of volunteers that contribute their skills and caring to help achieve the Hospital's commitment to healing. The hospital absorbed the Wellesley endoscopy group after Wellesley Hospital was closed.
St. Michael's was the subject of a groundbreaking experiment partnering media and medicine. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Katerina Cizek teamed up with frontline health care workers in the National Film Board of Canada's Filmmaker-in-Residence[5] project. The website received the 2008 Webby Award for best online documentary series.[6]
In October 2008, St. Michael's was named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc., which was announced by the Toronto Star newspaper.[7] The hospital was also named one of the Top 20 Best Employers for New Canadians for the second consecutive year in April 2009.[8]
St. Michael's Hospital was founded in 1892 by the Sisters of St. Joseph, who operated the Notre Dame des Anges, a boarding house for working women. Originally an old Baptist church, the hospital on Bond Street was created in response to a diphtheria epidemic that was sweeping Toronto and an appeal by the city's medical officer of health.[9]
The hospital opened with a bed capacity of 26 and a staff of six doctors and four graduate nurses. Within a year, it was expanded to include two large wards and an emergency department.
As early as 1894, St. Michael's Hospital started receiving medical students. It negotiated a formal agreement with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 1920 that continues to this day.
By 1912, bed capacity had reached 300, and a five-room operating suite was added.Ongoing physical expansion, most prominent in the 1960s, increased the original 26 bed facility to a high of 900 beds.
Between 1892 and 1974, St. Michael's school of nursing graduated 81 classes, totalling 5,177 graduates. The school was closed in 1974 when nursing education was moved into the province's community college system. Thereafter, the hospital opened a school for medical record librarians, the first in Canada, and also participated in the preparation of dietitians and X-ray and laboratory technologists.
In March 2010, the hospital re-branded itself simply as St. Michael's to reflect its growing moment into medical research. At the same time a new motto: "Inspired Care. Inspiring Science." was also revealed.[10]
The hospital is also home to the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, with a state-of-the-art building, opened on October 18th, 2011.[11][12] The Knowledge Institute aims to bring together the areas of research and education to bring advances to patient care sooner. It is also the home of the Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, a group of scientists and physicians that perform research in platelet and bleeding disorders.
St. Michael's is one of a few GTA hospitals with helicopter landing facilities and one of two in downtown Toronto (the other is at the Hospital for Sick Children). The helipad (TC LID: CTM4)[13] is located the on the roof of the main hospital wing in the north end at Shuter Street and Victoria Street.
Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:St._Michael%27s_Hospital_(Toronto) St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto)] at Wikimedia Commons
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