Women's College Hospital

Women's College Hospital, or The New Women's College Hospital is a teaching hospital in downtown Toronto.

Women's College Hospital maintains a focus on women's health, research in women's health, and ambulatory care. It was given the distinction of being the only 'collaborating centre' in the Western Hemisphere designated by the World Health Organization.

The hospital was founded on October 1, 1883 as Women's Medical College, and was the first medical school in Toronto to admit women as students. It currently functions as an independent ambulatory care hospital. It moved to its current location in Toronto in 1935, and became a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto in 1961.

Women's College Hospital merged with Sunnybrook Hospital and the Orthopedic and Arthritic Hospital in 1998 under the provisions of Ontario Bill 51, and became Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre. Women's College Hospital de-amalgamated in 2006 to become The New Women's College Hospital.

In 2003, while still part of the erstwhile "Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre", the Women's College site housed the first ambulatory SARS clinic in Canada, (while the Sunnybrook site housed both the first in-patient SARS unit and Intensive Care Unit for SARS in Canada).

The Physician-in-chief is Dr. Gillian Hawker.

Affiliate site: http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/