Unity Health Toronto is a
Catholic
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hospital network
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serving
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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,
Canada
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. It was initially founded in 2017 under the provisional name Our Shared Purpose through the merger of
St. Michael's Hospital,
Providence Healthcare and
St. Joseph's Health Centre
St. Joseph's Health Centre is a large Catholic teaching hospital in western Toronto, Ontario. It is located west of downtown Toronto, along the Lake Ontario shore at the intersection of The Queensway and Sunnyside Avenue, just west of Roncesvalle ...
.
It is the largest Catholic health care network in Canada.
All three facilities in the network are members of the Catholic Health Sponsors of Ontario and the CHSO is responsible for ensuring consistency with the founding principles of the
Sisters of St. Joseph
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.
Tim Rutledge is the CEO.
In the 2019-2020 fiscal year, there were nearly 46,000 inpatient stays across the 3 constituent hospitals and over 173,000 emergency department visits. The average length of inpatient stays was 6.3 days.
Constituent hospitals
Providence Healthcare
Providence Healthcare (founded 1857 as the House of Providence) is a 245-bed
rehabilitation hospital located in the
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district of Toronto. It also provides
long-term care and
palliative care
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for the elderly.
St. Joseph's Health Centre
St. Joseph's Health Centre (founded 1921) is a 376-bed
general hospital
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in western Toronto.
St. Michael's Hospital
St. Michael's Hospital (founded 1892) is a 463-bed
teaching hospital
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in the
Garden District of
downtown Toronto that is fully affiliated with the
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
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. It is one of two level 1 adult
trauma centre
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s in the
Greater Toronto Area
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, and is equipped with a helipad for
air ambulance
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services.
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Hospitals in Toronto
Hospitals established in 2017
Hospital networks in Canada
Hospitals affiliated with the University of Toronto
2017 establishments in Ontario
Catholic hospitals in North America
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