Hospital for Sick Children
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The Hospital for Sick Children, also known as Sick Kids, is a children's hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that specializes in the treatment of children. It is one of the largest children's hospitals in the world. It is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto. It was founded in 1875.
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Address
The Hospital for Sick Children
555 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
M5G 1X8
Telephone: (416) 813-1500
The hospital is located a block south of Queen's Park off of University Avenue.
History
During the spring of 1875 a group of Toronto women led by Elizabeth McMaster rented an 11-room house for $320 a year. They set up six iron cots and "declared open a hospital 'for the admission and treatment of all sick children.'" Their first patient, Maggie, was a scalding victim, and came in on April 3.
"In that first year, 44 patients were admitted to the Hospital. Sixty-seven others were treated in outpatient clinics." [1]
Recent events
Recently, Sick Kids helped save the life of 10-year-old Djamshid Popal from Afghanistan by treating his heart problem, after the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario diagnosed it and refed the patient to them. [2]
