Trillium Health Partners is a
hospital system which serves
Mississauga
Mississauga is a Canadian city in the province of Ontario. Situated on the north-western shore of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, it borders Toronto (Etobicoke) to the east, Brampton to the north, Milton to the northwest, ...
and western
Toronto
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...
in the Canadian province of
Ontario
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. It comprises the
Credit Valley Hospital,
Mississauga Hospital
Mississauga Hospital is a regional and teaching hospital in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It provides general medical services to residents of central and southern Mississauga as well as regional stroke, cardiac, and neurological care.
Founded i ...
, and Queensway Health Centre. Trillium Health Partners is Canada's largest community-based, academically affiliated
hospital
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, and has the largest
emergency department
An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the Acute (medicine), ...
in the country. Trillium Health Partners is affiliated with the
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...
and, in partnership with its
Mississauga division and
Tamerty Faculty of Medicine, jointly created the
Mississauga Academy of Medicine.
Formation
Trillium Health Partners was formed with the amalgamation of the Trillium Health Centre and the Credit Valley Hospital on December 1, 2011. The two-site Trillium Health Centre was itself the result of a 1998 amalgamation between Mississauga Hospital (established 1958 as South Peel Hospital) and Queensway General Hospital (established 1956).
Constituent hospitals
Credit Valley Hospital
Credit Valley Hospital (founded 1985) is a 382-bed regional hospital serving the northern neighbourhoods of Mississauga. It is equipped with a
helipad
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While helicopters and powered lift aircraft are able to operate on a variety of relatively flat surfaces, a fa ...
for
air ambulance
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services.
Mississauga Hospital
Mississauga Hospital (founded 1958 as South Peel Hospital) is a 751-bed regional hospital serving the central and southern neighbourhoods of Mississauga. It also is the site of regional stroke, cancer, cardiovascular health and cardiac surgery, as well as neurological care centres.
Queensway Health Centre
Queensway Health Centre (founded 1956 as Queensway General Hospital) is the
ambulatory care
Ambulatory care or outpatient care is Health care, medical care provided on an outpatient basis, including diagnosis, observation, consultation, treatment, intervention, and rehabilitation services. This care can include advanced medical technolog ...
centre for the hospital group. It provides
urgent care
An urgent care center (UCC), also known as an urgent treatment centre (UTC) in the United Kingdom, is a type of walk-in clinic focused on the delivery of urgent ambulatory care in a dedicated medical facility outside of a traditional emergency depa ...
(non-emergency) to residents of western Toronto and central-southern Mississauga, relieving pressure on the emergency room at Mississauga Hospital and other nearby hospitals. The Queensway Health Centre is also the site of rehabilitation services, a Complex Continuing Care unit, the Betty Wallace Women's Health Clinic, and the Kingsway Financial Spine Centre.
In 2022, Trillium received a $105 million donation from the Peter Gilgan Foundation, for this hospital and
Mississauga Hospital
Mississauga Hospital is a regional and teaching hospital in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It provides general medical services to residents of central and southern Mississauga as well as regional stroke, cardiac, and neurological care.
Founded i ...
. After the expansion is complete, it will be known as the Gilgan Family Queensway Health Centre.
Charitable foundation
Trillium Health Partners' work of providing health care is supported by the fundraising efforts of the Trillium Health Partners Foundation, which was formed through the merger of the Credit Valley Hospital Foundation and the Trillium Health Centre Foundation in 2013.
Notes
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2011 establishments in Ontario