The Hospital for Sick Children | |
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Geography | |
Location | 555 University Avenue Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8 |
Coordinates | 43°39′26″N 79°23′19″W / 43.6571°N 79.3885°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | Medicare |
Funding | Public hospital |
Type | Specialist |
Affiliated university | University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine |
Services | |
Emergency department | Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Centre (Tertiary) |
Beds | 453 |
Speciality | Children's hospital |
Helipad | TC LID: CNW8 |
History | |
Opened | 1875 |
Links | |
Website | www |
The Hospital for Sick Children (HSC), corporately branded as SickKids, is a major pediatric teaching hospital located on University Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto, the hospital was ranked the top pediatric hospital in the world by Newsweek in 2021.[1]
The hospital's Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning is believed to be the largest pediatric research tower in the world, at 69,677.28 square metres (750,000.0 sq ft).[2]