Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, abbreviated SHSC and known simply as Sunnybrook, is an academic health sciences centre located in Toronto, Ontario.

It is the largest trauma centre in Canada and is one of two major trauma centres in Toronto; the other is St. Michael's Hospital. It is also Canada's largest maternity hospital as well as a teaching hospital of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.

The Kilgour Wing (K Wing) is a long term care centre with the large majority of patients being war veterans. The hospital was a centre used to handle the wounded after World War II.

History

Alice M. Kilgour donated the Sunnybrook Farm to the City of Toronto in memory of her husband, Joseph Kilgour, for use as a public park in 1928. With the consent of the Kilgour heirs, part of the parkland was transferred to the Government of Canada to build a hospital for veterans. The Sunnybrook Military Hospital opened its doors in June 1948. In 1991, The Province of Ontario opened major research facilities to house the rapid growth of research on campus.The hospital merged with Women's College Hospital and the Orthopaedic and Arthritic Hospital in June 1998 under the provisions of Bill 51, but Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre was de-amalgamated in April 2006 to create Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the separate Women's College Hospital. On July 1, 2012, Sunnybrook and St. John's Rehab Hospital voluntarily merged, recognizing that their highly complementary programs and services can offer patients a seamless, continuum of care from acute injury or illness, through to rehabilitation and recovery. Currently, Sunnybrook maintains three campuses, with its main campus (Bayview) on Bayview Avenue in North York, the satellite Holland Centre (orthopaedic and arthritic care) on Wellesley St. E., and St. John's Rehab Hospital on Cummer Avenue. SHSC became affiliated with the University of Toronto in 1966.