Help us build the future of
healthcare Women Deserve.
Healthcare wasn’t built for women. For generations, women’s bodies were excluded from the data that shaped medicine. So we started asking the questions medicine had missed.
Today, Canada stands at another defining moment.
Women are living longer, but not healthier. They spend more years in poor health than men and continue to face delays in diagnosis, gaps in research and inequities in care.
These gaps will not close on their own.
With your support, we can shape a healthier future for women and for everyone.
This is not a future we should accept.
Building What Comes Next
Building the future isn’t about one breakthrough. It’s about transforming healthcare at every level.
At Women’s College Hospital, that means redesigning how care is delivered, rewriting what medicine knows and reimagining the systems that shape people’s lives.
Redesign
Rewrite
Reimagine
We’ve Always Built What Comes Next
Our history proves what happens when we challenge the status quo.
When women were excluded, we opened doors. When medicine missed the evidence, we created it.
When better care didn’t exist, we built it.
Again and again, what started here has helped move healthcare forward.
Our history is proof of what is possible when people challenge the status quo and build what comes next.
Dr. Emily Stowe becomes Canada's first woman doctor.
Dr. Emily Stowe helps establish Woman's Medical College in Toronto, opening doors to medical education to women for the first time.
The first hospital opens at 18 Seaton Street with seven inpatient beds. Women's College Hospital becomes Canada's first hospital run by women doctors.
Women's College Hospital and Dispensary officially opens at 125 Rusholme Road.
Women’s College Hospital opens its new home at 76 Grenville Street, expanding access to healthcare for women with space for 140 inpatients.
Dr. Marion Hilliard and Dr. Eva Mader Macdonald collaborate on developing a simplified Pap Test for detecting early signs of cancer.
Ontario's first cancer detection clinic for "well women" opens, pioneering early cancer screening.
Women’s College Hospital becomes a fully accredited teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.
Women’s became the first hospital in Ontario to use mammography for breast cancer detection.
Canada's first Perinatal Intensive Care Unit opens at Women’s College Hospital, along with the Family Practice Health Centre, then the largest in Toronto.
The Bay Centre for Birth Control opens. Dr. Marion Powell becomes its director in 1981.
Women’s opens Canada's first cardiac prevention and rehabilitation program designed exclusively for women.
Dr. Steven Narod and researchers at Women’s College Hospital help advance understanding of BRCA1 and BRCA2, helping reshape how hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk is understood and managed.
Women’s College Hospital begins operating independently under the Public Hospitals Act and the Women's College Research Institute formally launches.
Planning begins for the redevelopment of Women’s College Hospital.
Crossroads Clinic opens, Toronto's first hospital-based refugee health clinic.
The Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care opens. (WIHV).
The new home of Women's College Hospital is completed.
Women’s begins offering same-day joint replacement surgery in an outpatient setting, the first program of its kind in Canada.
Women's Virtual launches at WCH, Canada's first virtual hospital.
Ganawishkadawe - Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health officially opens, Ontario's first hospital-based centre developing a strategy to incorporate traditional and inclusive Indigenous practices into non-Indigenous healthcare spaces.
Women's Age Lab opens, the world's first and only centre dedicated to addressing the health inequities faced by older women.
Women's College Hospital launches Canada's first Centre for Sex and Gender in Health.