The Hospital for Sick Children
in Toronto, CanadaCategory: Attraction
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Sick Kids (The Hospital for Sick Children), 555 University Ave, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada Print route »
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The Hospital for Sick Children, corporately branded as SickKids, is a children's hospital and teaching hospital located on University Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is affiliated with the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, and is the second-largest paediatric research hospital in the world, after the Boston Children's Hospital. The hospital's Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning is the largest pediatric research building in the world at 69677.28 square metres. Founded in 1875, the hospital was inspired by the example of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.The hospital is located in the Discovery District of Downtown Toronto on University Avenue, adjacent to the Toronto General Hospital and across from Mount Sinai Hospital and the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre—collectively forming a complex known as Hospital Row, each connected by underground tunnels and bridges. The hospital is known for its advertisement campaigns and the largest amounts of donations received for any Canadian hospital.
