Our fundraising priorities

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

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

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

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