The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)

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The Hospital for Sick Children, corporately branded as SickKids, is a major pediatric teaching hospital located on University Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto as a member of the Toronto Academic Health Science Network (TAHSN). The hospital was founded by Elizabeth McMaster in 1875 in a rented room with eleven beds, and later expanded to become a formal hospital, known as the Victoria Hospital for Sick Children, in 1891. In 1951, the hospital moved to its present campus in a nine-storey tower with 572 beds. The hospital's corporate and administrative services are located at the adjacent Patient Support Centre, a 22-storey tower on Elizabeth Street. The hospital's Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning on Bay Street is the largest pediatric research centre in the world by area; the skyscraper holds 69,677.28 square metres (750,000.0 sq ft). SickKids is credited with a number of inventions, including Pablum, a fortified children...

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