Critical Care Centre

The center will bring together Sunnybrook’s critical care units into one dynamic physical location. The building will be home to intensive care beds, teaching resources, research facilities, and a digital ‘mission control’ that will enable virtual critical care to take place across the province and provide advice around the world.

A fundamental component of this new structure will also be the province’s greatest resource for the care of patients who have complex malignant hematological cancers such as leukemia. Complementing Ontario’s existing centres, this new space will ensure patients with these intensive illnesses are cared for in the province, without having to be sent to the United States for care.

While this new centre will be an impressive building for those who are onsite, it will be the heart of a high performing critical care network that will extend its reach well beyond its physical structure.

There has been sharp growth in demand for critical care the past few years and this level of complex care requires an epicenter to lead the response to this need. Sunnybrook is already a leader in this area and provides world-class care for specialized trauma, cardiac, cancer, complex malignant hematology, stroke and neurosurgical care. Locating these specialized resources in the focused Critical Care Centre will bring all needed technology and human resources to the patient’s bedside – maximizing their chance of survival – and provide an environment that is most conducive to their healing and recovery.