London Health Sciences Centre

 

SNAPSHOT
As London, Ontario’s largest employer and one of Canada’s largest acute-care teaching hospitals. London Health Science Centre is located across three sites -South Street Hospital, University Hospital and Victoria Hospital– and at two family medical centres. They are also home to the London Regional Cancer Program, the Children’s Hospital, CSTAR (Canadian Surgical Technologies & Advanced Robotics) and Lawson Health Research Institute.

FACTS 2008/2009

Beds: Emergency visits: Ambulatory visits: Admissions: Patient days: Operating room cases: Day surgery cases: Medics residents trained: Total Staff:

846 146,903 692,242 44,979 290,451 49,833 29,155 699 10,555

AWARDS-ACHIEVEMENTS
The multi-organ transplant team performs the world’s first liver-bowel transplant (1988), World’s first closed chest, robotic-assisted beating heart coronary artery bypass graft (1999); the world’s first robotic-assisted surgery using tele mentoring (2001); the first time in North America minimally invasive robotic-assisted heart bypass surgery and angioplasty with stenting, performed at the same time in the operating room (2004); and the world’s first robotic assisted left atrial appendage ligation (2005).

SOURCE: http://www.lhsc.on.ca/About_Us/LHSC/Who_We_Are/Facts_And_Stats/index.htm