Credit Valley Hospital is a regional hospital located in

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. Officially opened on November 5, 1985, it is now part of the Trillium Health Partners hospital group and primarily serves the communities of north Mississauga: Streetsville, Meadowvale,

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and the surrounding area. In 2012, it was ranked as the best hospital in the Greater Toronto Area in a study conducted by the

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Services

The hospital provides services and covers areas of medicine including: *Cardiac services *Continuing care/rehabilitation *Emergency *General medicine *Genetics *Mental health *Diagnostic Imaging *

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and

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*Surgery The hospital is equipped with a ground level

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north of the hospital at Eglinton Avenue West and Credit Valley Road.

Expansion

The hospital has expanded to include a new

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treatment centre (''The Carlo Fidani Peel Regional Cancer Centre'') and also a regional maternal child care program. The cancer centre serves a catchment area of 1.6 million people. In addition to chemotherapy, there are six linear accelerators (

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machines).

Bus Terminal

The Credit Valley Hospital Bus Terminal is located in western

, Canada. It is situated on the northern side of the hospital. The bus terminal contains bus shelters.

MiWay routes

For the Mississauga site, bus service is exclusively by

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. However,

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indirectly serves the terminal by stopping at the entrances of Eglinton Avenue and Erin Mills Parkway All MiWay routes are wheelchair-accessible ().

GO Transit

GO Transit buses stop at the entrances of the hospital.

References

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