Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

• ‘No surgery date in sight’: Ontario child desperately needs help to stabilize leg

  For nine-year-old Grace Anstey, from Barrie, Ont., a cartwheel a year ago turned her life upside down, and it’s kept spinning ever since. Her family is desperate for a solution.

  Canada

  Jul 14, 2023
  
• Scarborough couple loses baby, injured following crash involving suspected impaired driver

  Their dreams were shattered after the couple was seriously hurt in collision minutes from their Scarborough home and lost their baby from the injuries she suffered.

  Crime

  Jun 27, 2023
  
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• IndyCar driver Devlin DeFrancesco raising funds for Toronto’s Sunnybrook hospital

  Devlin DeFrancesco was born 15 weeks premature at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

  Canada

  Jun 22, 2022
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• Canadian Armed Forces winding down COVID-19 task force at Toronto’s Sunnybrook hospital

  A Canadian Armed Forces spokesperson told Global News critical care nursing officers will be the last to leave Sunnybrook. Their duties will end on May 31 as previously scheduled.

  Health

  May 26, 2021
• Canadian military’s COVID-19 medical task force assuming duties at Toronto’s Sunnybrook hospital

  Dubbed Task Force Presidio, a military spokesperson for Joint Task Force Central confirmed to Global News around 50 military members are a part of the initial deployment.

  Health

  Apr 29, 2021
• Toronto’s Sunnybrook hospital building field unit in parking lot amid 3rd COVID-19 wave fears

  'We're ready for anything that might come our way,' Robert Burgess, Sunnybrook's senior director of patient flow, emergency preparedness and pre-hospital medicine, said.

  Health

  Mar 10, 2021
• Toronto nurses upset over COVID-19 vaccine access, allege frontline medical staff not being prioritized

  “We literally throw our bodies onto people’s chests just so they can live a second longer and this vaccine is life-saving,” a nurse said, stressing the need for vaccinations.

  Health

  Jan 8, 2021
• Toronto hospitals encouraged by early stages of virtual ER programs introduced during COVID-19

  The head of the virtual emergency department at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre said staff have seen about 250 patients since Dec. 1.

  Health

  Jan 7, 2021
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• Sunnybrook Hospital offers ‘virtual emergency department’ appointments in 6-month pilot project

  Patients can book a virtual emergency department appointment between 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. Monday to Friday, Sunnybrook Hospital said

  Health

  Dec 2, 2020
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• ‘World first’ Parkinson’s treatment undergoing clinical trial in Toronto

  The ultimate goal of the new treatment would be to treat symptoms of Parkinson’s, prevent further decline in patients and reduce the amount of medications that people need to take for the illness, said Dr. Nir Lipsman.

  Canada

  Oct 29, 2020