William Osler Health Centre

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.

Hospitals

 * Brampton Civic Hospital – a 608 bed facility in northeast Brampton
 * Peel Memorial Hospital – Now closed
 * Etobicoke General Hospital – a 262 bed facility, opened in 1972, located in the west of Toronto

Expansion
The Brampton Civic Hospital located on Bovaird Drive and Bramalea Road will open on October 28, 2007, bringing the number of hospitals in WOHC to two as Peel Memorial Hosptial will temporarily close. It will have 608 beds and accommodate 90,000 emergency patient visits, 160,000 ambulatory care visits and 110,000 outpatient visits annually.

Hospital Leadership:

Robert A. Richards, President and CEO

Dawn Barbieri, Site Executive Peel Memorial Hospital

Ruth Beck, Site Executive Etobicoke General Hospital

Lynn Evans, Vice President - Human Resources, Business Services, Support Services & Patient Services

Brenda Elsbury, Chief Nursing Officer

Ian Marshall, General Counsel

Judy Middleton, Chief Information Officer

Vicki Truman, Vice President Corporate Services

Gillian Williams McClean, Director, Communications and Marketing