Unity Health Toronto: St. Joseph’s Health Centre
St. Joseph’s Health Centre (SJHC) is a 376-bed community teaching hospital situated in west-end Toronto, serving a core population of over 500,000. Situated next to expansive High Park, the neighbourhoods surrounding the hospital are home to a diverse community of long established Polish, Ukrainian, and Portuguese families alongside recently arrived immigrants, refugees and young families from all over the world and many walks of life. The quiet, tree- lined residential streets surrounding the hospital and the waters of Lake Ontario, visible from the hospital windows, belie the fact that the city centre is only 20 to 25 minutes away by car or subway. An ambitious redevelopment plan is transfiguring the hospital, especially with the opening of the new Lakehouse Palliative Care unit, as well as plans to build a state-of-art patient care tower and expanded emergency department, starting in 2026.
Through its affiliation with the University of Toronto, St. Joe’s is now part of the Unity Health Toronto along with St. Michael's Hospital and Providence Health Centre, and has a clearly stated vision to be ‘the best community-based teaching hospital in Canada’. This is a vision supported by the hospital’s administration, the Department of Medical Education and Scholarship and the numerous clinicians in the hospital involved in teaching on a daily basis. No department has more to gain from this vision than the Department of Family Medicine, home to the largest number of patients in the hospital.
Address:
30 The Queensway
Ground Floor, East Wing
Toronto, Ontario
M6R 1B5
Note: The family medicine clinic will be moving to a new facility during the 2026-2027 academic year due to construction of a new building at St. Joseph’s Health Centre requiring the clinic to move. The new clinic will be located at 2340 Dundas St. West (right at Dundas West subway station).
Affiliated family medicine clinics include: SJHC Urban Family Health Team (SJHC UFHT), Sherbourne Health Centre, Community Health Centres (CHCs), private MD offices
Chief of Family Medicine
Teaching Site Facilities:
We’re proud that St. Joseph’s Health Centre is ranked among the top 10 community teaching hospitals in Ontario by Newsweek’s World Best Hospitals 2026.
- Over 27, 000 clinic visits per year
- Family physician preceptors have a special interest in at least one of addictions/palliative/obstetrics
- Opportunity to work within interprofessional health care team
- 2 nurse practitioners, a clinical pharmacist, 2 social workers, registered dietician and an Intake/access patient navigator
- Fantastic cafeteria food with very reasonable prices and a diversity of dishes & flavours
- Gift store with local artists and unique products
- Ambitious, +$1,000,000,000 redevelopment plan is transfiguring the hospital by building a brand-new patient care tower
- Lakehouse Palliative Care and a newly renovated emergency department
The Area:
Our unique location is at the crossroads of the inner city and its surrounding urban/suburban base. This means that our residents experience the full spectrum of family medicine.
Proximity to downtown Toronto: 6.5 km, 15 to 20 minutes by car or subway.
Demographics:
Our patient population is diverse with respect to age, socioeconomic scale, culture and language; providers have easy access to telephone and online interpretation services.