St. Joseph's Health Centre

St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto is a large Catholic community teaching hospital in western Toronto. It is located west of downtown, along the Lake Ontario shore at 30 The Queensway, the intersection of The Queensway and Sunnyside Avenue, just west of Roncesvalles Avenue. It was founded in 1921 by the Sisters of St. Joseph order, which had earlier opened St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, on the site of an orphanage.OverviewSt. Joseph's Health Centre receives more than 97,000 emergency room visits every year, and sees more than 272,000 visits in its outpatient ambulatory care clinics. More than 21,000 patients are admitted to a hospital bed every year, with an average stay of five to six days and an occupancy rate of 90%. Yearly, more than 3,000 children are born at St. Joseph's. Over 160,000 diagnostic imaging procedures are done ever year and more than 30,000 surgeries.St. Joseph's is affiliated with the University of Toronto and accepts placement trainees in various specialties. Trainees are placed through U of T, and include students of other university medical programs. Over 800 trainees are placed at St. Joseph's and 200 faculty members at U of T. The medical education program is administered by the Department of Medical Education & Scholarship. St. Joseph's also accepts nursing trainees from universities and colleges.Services Birthing Centre & Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Diagnostic Imaging Services Emergency, Critical Care & Access Clinics Laboratory Services Medicine, Ambulatory & Seniors' Health Clinics Mental Health & Addictions Clinics Surgery & Oncology Clinics Pharmacy Women's, Children's & Family Health The Women's, Children's and Family Health Program launched the St. Joseph's Urban Family Health Team (UFHT) at 27 Roncesvalles Ave. The main focus of UFHT is to improve population health by focusing on chronic disease prevention and management. It offers patient education, health promotion, disease prevention and chronic disease management programs.