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St. Michael's Hospital is a teaching hospital and medical centre in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was established by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1892, with the founding goal of taking care of the sick and poor of Toronto's inner city. The hospital provides tertiary and quaternary services in cardiovascular surgery, neurosurgery, inner city health and therapeutic endoscopy. It is one of two Level 1 adult trauma centres in Greater Toronto, along with the larger Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. It is one of the teaching hospitals of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. ==Overview== The hospital is located near the intersection of Queen Street and Yonge Street in downtown Toronto's Garden District. The hospital serves a diverse population that includes the affluent condominium complexes in Harbourfront, the underprivileged of the inner city of Regent Park, and the gay and lesbian community in Church and Wellesley. The hospital has 463 inpatient beds and extensive outpatient clinics.〔http://www.stmichaelshospital.com/about/snapshot.php〕 The current Physician-in-Chief is Dr. Tom Parker,〔(Hyland shares insights with Parker on new Physician-in-chief role )〕 the Surgeon-in-Chief is Dr. Ori Rotstein〔(Ori D. Rotstein )〕 and the President and CEO is Dr. Bob Howard.〔(Executive Team )〕 The hospital also has a large team of volunteers that contribute their skills and caring to help achieve the Hospital's commitment to healing. The hospital absorbed the Wellesley endoscopy group after Wellesley Hospital was closed. St. Michael's was the subject of a groundbreaking experiment partnering media and medicine. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Katerina Cizek teamed up with frontline health care workers in the National Film Board of Canada's Filmmaker-in-Residence〔(Filmmaker-in-Residence )〕 project. The website received the 2008 Webby Award for best online documentary series.〔(NFB Filmmaker In Residence ) Webby Award Winner〕 In October 2008, St. Michael's was named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc., which was announced by the ''Toronto Star'' newspaper. The hospital was also named one of the Best Employers for New Canadians for six consecutive years from 2008 to 2013.〔(St. Michael's Hospital named one of 40 Best Employers for New Canadians )〕〔(St. Michael's Working Here page )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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