Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

The Burn and Trauma Rehab unit supports patients recovering from burns, traumatic injuries and other complex conditions that can bring significant, life-altering changes. These injuries can affect physical function and appearance, but the impact often reaches much further, affecting a person’s identity, daily life and the roles that matter to them. For many of our patients…

Sunnybrook’s Ross Tilley Burn Centre has opened a new operating suite to help improve access to life-saving care for seriously injured burn patients. Each year, the team in the Ross Tilley Burn Centre perform close to 700 surgeries for those injured by thermal (fire, steam, hot liquids), chemical, electrical and radiation burns, making it the largest centre of its kind in Can...

The flames got very high, very quickly. Blanca remembers grabbing the pan and the flames jumping to her hair and then to her body. The last thing she recalls is stopping to roll outside. “It was so fast,” she says, of the kitchen fire in the summer of 2024. She had placed some oil in a pan and left to take a quick call, only alerted to the danger once her son called for her.<...

In July, Sunnybrook became the first hospital in Canada to achieve American College of Surgeons (ACS) Quality Verification Program (ACS QVP) focused verification status. When Sunnybrook’s Surgical Quality Team embarked on the process, they had a clear goal: to connect quality initiatives across the Integrated Surgical Program (ISP), and provide teams the guidance, tools…

Content warning: This story contains a surgical image that viewers may find graphic, including exposed bone. Viewer discretion is advised. On September 1, Dr. David Wasserstein, a Trauma and Knee Reconstruction Specialist at Sunnybrook, performed a first-in-Canada procedure at the Holland Orthopaedic & Arthritic Centre – a national leader in orthopaedic care and research…...