A donation to the Heart of the East is an investment in the well-being of everyone in East Toronto. With your support, the Heart of the East will achieve four ambitious goals to create health for our community:
- Embracing our community
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Designing our new campus to be responsive to the needs of a diverse community, including:
- A friendlier, more welcoming start to a family’s visit to the hospital, with a new, more inviting entrance and atrium
- Community amenities including gathering spaces, outdoor event space, children’s play areas, and gardens
- A multifaith prayer and meditation space
- Supporting children and families
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Providing children and families with high-quality paediatric care closer to home, by creating:
- Renewed space for child and adolescent mental health
- A family-centred approach to our BMO Child & Youth Centre, consolidating paediatric outpatient clinics into one convenient, family-friendly space
- Children’s play areas to make all family members feel as comfortable as possible
- Creating a better experience
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Investing in a more pleasant, private and safe experience for patients and their families through single rooms, family zones, and restful spaces for day procedures:
- Increase in single-patient rooms to 80 per cent of all beds
- Relocating outpatient spaces in one wing near the main entrance for easier navigation to and from appointments
- Enhancing patient privacy and dignity through a new, patient-centred diagnostic imaging centre, ensuring faster and more precise diagnosis of a wider range of health conditions with a new CT scanner and MRI
- Reducing wait times and length of stay by relocating a CT scanner to the emergency department
- Teaching and learning
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Enhancing our ability to educate tomorrow’s medical leaders and our role as the largest community and family medicine teaching program affiliated with the University of Toronto:
- New education spaces including a simulated learning space, a medical library, a medical education centre, classrooms, and an auditorium
- Research and academic leadership through the funding of chairs in specialty areas and the creation of a new innovation fund