Care system Medicare Standards Tertiary care Headquarters Toronto, Canada Founded 1999 | Hospital type Teaching, research Number of beds 1,295 Standard Health Care | |
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Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada CEO Peter Pisters (1 Jan 2015–) Affiliated university University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Similar Royal College of Physician, St Luke's University Health N, Hackensack University Medical, College of Family Physician, Canadian Institute for Health Inf Profiles | ||
University Health Network (UHN) is a healthcare and medical research organization in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest such research organization in Canada and North America, ranking first in Canada for total research funding. It was named Canada's top research hospital by Research Infosource in 2015. It was created in 1999 by the Government of Ontario through the merger of four major hospitals: Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. All four hospitals are affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and serve as teaching hospitals for resident physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professions. UHN also operates The Michener Institute, an applied health sciences college that opened in 1958.
In 2008, University Health Network was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers by Mediacorp Canada and was named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers by the Toronto Star.