St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto

St. Michael's Hospital is a teaching hospital in Downtown Toronto. It offers tertiary and quaternary care for patients throughout Ontario.

It is unique in many areas and offers services in cardiovascular surgery, neurosurgery, inner city health and therapeutic endoscopy (after absorbing the Wellesley endoscopy group, which had to relocate when Wellesley Hospital was closed).

The hospital is located near the intersections of Queen Street and Yonge Street in Downtown Toronto, and because of its location, caters to a diverse population, that includes the posh 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 hospital is one of two major trauma centres in the Greater Toronto Area and is open 24 hours a day. The only other trauma centre is Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

The current Physician-in-Chief is Dr. Robert Hyland, the Surgeon-in-Chief is Dr. Ori Rotstein and the President is Jeffrey Lozon.

St. Michael’s Hospital is the site of a groundbreaking experiment partnering media and medicine. Until Dec. 2007, award-winning documentary filmmaker Katerina Cizek will team up with frontline health care workers in the National Film Board of Canada's Filmmaker-in-Residence project.

Services

 * Heart and vascular disease
 * Inner city health
 * Trauma and neurosurgery
 * Diabetes comprehensive care
 * Neurology and musculoskeletal disorders
 * Specialized Complex Care
 * Critical care
 * Obstetrics and gynecology
 * Psychiatry
 * Vitreoretinal Surgery

The hospital will be home to a research centre, the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, when it opens in 2009. It is also the home of the Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, a world renowned group of scientists and physcians that perform research in platelet and bleeding disorders.

History
St. Michael's Hospital was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1892, with a specific goal of taking care of the sick and poor of Toronto's inner city.