Harbor View Health Care Center

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; Toronto General Hospital is a major teaching hospital in downtown Toronto Toronto is home to twenty public hospitals including the Hospital for Sick Children Mount Sinai Hospital St Michael's Hospital North York General Hospital Toronto General Hospital Toronto Western Hospital Etobicoke General Hospital St Joseph's Health Centre Scarborough General Hospital Scarborough Grace Hospital Centenary Hospital Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre many of which are affiliated with the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine In 2007 Toronto was reported as having some of the longer average ER wait times in Ontario Toronto hospitals at the time employed a system of triage to ensure life-threatening injuries receive rapid treatment. After initial screening initial assessments by physicians were completed within the waiting rooms themselves for greater efficiency within a median of 1.2 hours Tests consultations and initial treatments were also provided within waiting rooms 50% of patients waited 4 hours before being transferred from the emergency room to another room the least-urgent 10% of cases wait over 12 hours the extended waiting-room times experienced by some patients were attributed to an overall shortage of acute care beds Toronto's MaRS Discovery District is a centre for research in biomedicine Toronto's Discovery District is a centre of research in biomedicine It is on a 2.5-square-kilometre (620-acre) research park that is integrated into Toronto's downtown core It is also home to the Medical and Related Sciences Centre (MaRS), which was created in 2000 to capitalize on the research and innovation strength of the Province of Ontario Another institute is the McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine (MCMM) Specialized hospitals are also outside of the downtown core These hospitals include the Baycrest Health Sciences geriatric hospital and the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital for children with disabilities Toronto is also host to a wide variety of health-focused non-profit organizations that work to address specific illnesses for Toronto Ontario and Canadian residents Organizations include Crohn's and Colitis Canada the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada the Canadian Cancer Society the Alzheimer Society of Canada Alzheimer Society of Ontario and Alzheimer Society of Toronto all situated in the same office at Yonge and Eglinton the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research Cystic Fibrosis Canada the Canadian Mental Health Association the ALS Society of Canada and many others These organizations work to help people within the GTA Ontario or Canada who are affected by these illnesses as well most engage in fundraising to promote research services and public awareness Transportation, Besides marine travel Upper Canada had a few Post roads or footpaths used for transportation by horse or stagecoaches along the key settlements between London to Kingston The Governor's Road was built beginning in 1793 from Dundas to Paris and then to the proposed capital of London by 1794 the road was further extended eastward with new capital of York in 1795 his road was eventually known as Dundas Road A second route was known as Lakeshore Road or York Road which was built from York to Trent River from 1799 to 1900 and later extended eastwards to Kingston in 1817 This road was later renamed as Kingston Road United States relations. .