Hennick Humber Hospital
Hennick Humber Hospital (Humber) is Lighting New Ways in Healthcare. In 2015, the lights were turned on at our new, state-of-the-art hospital, which is now home to the Schulich Family Medicine Teaching Unit (FMTU).
Serving a catchment area of more than 850,000 people, Humber is a 1.8 million square foot, fully-digital acute care facility. Our mission is to work together to deliver innovative, safe and compassionate healthcare in our community.
The Hospital’s commitment to safety has been recognized by the Canadian College of Health Leaders’ with the 2021 Excellence in Patient Safety Award. Our Command Centre acts as a “mission control” to manage patient flow and drive the quality of care using real-time data feeds from across the Hospital resulting in improved flow, better patient safety and outcomes.
At Hennick Humber Hospital learners are exposed to socially accountable, comprehensive family medicine in the hospital based Schulich Family Medicine Teaching Unit and through partnerships with community family doctors. Learners are also exposed to interdisciplinary care in the unit, working alongside social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, dieticians, and pharmacists.
Address:
1235 Wilson Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario,
M3M 0B2
UNDERGRADUATE: MD Program Details
POSTGRADUATE: Residency Program Details
Chief of Family Medicine
Dr. Priya Sood and Dr. Patrick Safieh
Teaching Site Facility (Wilson):
- Hospital – based Schulich Family Medicine Teaching Unit centrally located on the ground floor of the hospital
- 6 family physicians (growing to 8), 18 residents, social worker, dietician, nurses, and soon to include nurse practitioner and pharmacist
- High Emergency Department volumes, seeing approximately 140,000 patients each year.
- Over 4,500 births per year at Humber along with an average of 15,000 paediatric outpatient visits annually.
- There are three research chairs at the Hospital's Research Institute, focusing on Technology, Community Connection, and Primary Care and Population Health Systems.
The Location:
The Hospital is located at Keele Street and Wilson Avenue, at the 401. It is easily accessed by car, TTC and GO Transit. At the crossroads of urban and suburban communities, lending to diverse patient populations for learners to see.
The Demographics:
- Humber serves a large, diverse and equity-deserving community in Northwest Toronto, Etobicoke, Rexdale and York Region, making our catchment area 850,000 people.
- The community has the 2nd highest percentage of racialized populations, as well as the highest percentage of unemployed individuals.
- With birth rates amongst the highest in the GTA, along with an increasing elderly adult population, learners gain exposure to all facets of family medicine from cradle to end of life care, and everything in between.
- Regarding primary care, North West Toronto has a low number of physicians surrounded by high primary care need.
- There is a lack of access to comprehensive interdisciplinary primary care in our community, with only 12.2% of the local population enrolled to a Family Health Team compared to 23.3% of the provincial average.