Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
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Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC), commonly known as Sunnybrook Hospital or simply Sunnybrook, is an academic health science centre located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1] It is the largest trauma centre in Canada and the only accredited Level 1 trauma centre outside of the US.[2] Sunnybrook is a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The hospital is home to Canada's largest veterans centre, in the Kilgour Wing and the George Hees, which cares for World War II and Korean War veterans.
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Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre | |
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Geography | |
Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Coordinates | 43°43′22″N 79°22′29″W |
Organization | |
Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP) |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine |
Services | |
Emergency department | Level I trauma center |
Beds | 1325 (including bassinet beds) |
Speciality | Cancer, heart and vascular, high risk maternal and newborn, image guided brain therapies, trauma |
Helipad | TC LID: CNY8 |
Public transit access | TTC 11A, 11C Bayview; 124 Sunnybrook; 352 Lawrence West; 407 Toronto Rehab Cardiac Centre Community Link |
History | |
Opened | 1948 |
Links | |
Website | www.sunnybrook.ca |
Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
Sunnybrook has made surgical breakthroughs in its history, including the world's first non-invasive opening of the blood–brain barrier being performed in 2015.[3]