Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) offers specialized and tertiary services to residents in Vancouver and across the province. VGH takes patients referred from other parts of the province requiring highly specialized services. VGH is also a teaching hospital, affiliated with the University of British Columbia, and home to one of the largest research institutes in Canada.

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Some of the specialized services provided include:

• Alzheimer Disease
• Arthritis
• Bone Marrow Transplant and Leukemia
• Burns and Plastics
• Epilepsy Surgery Program
• Immunology
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Organ Transplant
• Orthopaedics
• Psychiatry
• Rehabilitation
• Sleep Disorders
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Sports Medicine
• Trauma Services

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As one of Canada’s pre-eminent patient care, research and academic health science centres and one of Greater Toronto’s Top 50 Employers, Mount Sinai Hospital has a well-earned reputation for excellence in the community and also well beyond our borders.

We focus on three broad organizational goals:

• patient and family-centred care;
• increasing our role as an academic health sciences centre and teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto; and
• enhancing our community health partnerships.

In 1923, we began our history as a 33-bed maternity and convalescent hospital. Today, we are a state-of-the-art, 472-bed patient care, teaching and research hospital, but the reason we’re here has not changed since the day we opened our doors — serving our patients and their families.

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