Women’s College Hospital Foundation

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What We Do & Why It’s Important

Women’s College Hospital is revolutionizing healthcare for a healthier, more equitable world. The support from our donors, sponsors and partners enables Women’s College Hospital to think – and act – differently. We’re breaking down barriers to care by launching Canada’s first virtual hospital; we’re transforming surgeries such as joint replacements to day surgery, and we’re becoming a provincial hub for critical networks such as Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Care Centres and Substance Use care programs. We are always working to build a healthcare system that is more accessible, effective and inclusive for everyone. Because of you, Women’s College Hospital is Canada’s leader in women’s health, focused on equitable care for all. And we’re just getting started.

Our healthcare system needs to change. High costs, hallway medicine and a lack of gender-focused research are pressing challenges threatening the health of Canadians today.

Your support helps Women’s College Hospital drive change, close health gaps and create a more equitable system. You share our vision of healthcare revolutionized – a new future in which healthcare is radically redesigned. With your support, WCH is building on its established success to continue its role as a major catalyst for modernizing a 1950’s model of care within healthcare.

We aim to shift the balance of power, to confront gender and social inequities that threaten people’s health, to bring virtual care into the mainstream and reimagine how ambulatory healthcare services are delivered to close health gaps for all.

We can only do this with your ongoing support. Please join us by donating today.

Women’s College Hospital: At a Glance

Founded in 1883, WCH became the first place in Canada where women could study and practice medicine.
The only fully ambulatory, academic hospital in Canada focused on the health of women and health equity for all.
Home to one of the only hospital-based research institutes in the world dedicated to women’s health.
Major teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto
Mandated by the Ontario government to be a leader in health system solutions, Women’s College Hospital is now home to the provincial Centre for Digital Health Evaluation which is leading a national initiative to strengthen Canadian capacity to evaluate digital health interventions.

Did you Know?

In 2019, Women’s College Hospital launched Women’s Virtual, Canada’s first virtual hospital. Working with our health system partners, WCH has developed a series of virtual care programs focused on enhancing care, as well as supporting and working with providers in primary care and long-term care.
Women’s College Hospital is home to Ontario’s first hospital-based sexual assault centre and is the provincial hub for the Ontario Network of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Treatment Centres, supporting 37 sites across the province.
In 2018, Women’s College Hospital became the first public hospital in Canada to offer a transition-related surgery program.
75% of Women’s College Hospital patients are women.

Our Future

Women’s College Hospital Foundation relies on the generous support of donors like you to:

raise life-changing funds for new women’s health research;
support clinical care that puts the unique needs of women and their families first; and
fuel innovations to improve and create stronger, more equitable, health systems.

Our Foundation is proud to support Women’s College Hospital as a leader in women’s health and broadening health care access and advancing equity in underrepresented groups.

We are guided by our strong values and our commitment to building a better Canada by advancing health equity for women and for all. As a member of our donor family, you can count on us to stand by our values as we pursue our shared vision and mission for the future of healthcare together.