On December 10, Toronto Public Heath declared a Norovirus outbreak on the Complex Continuing Care unit. Other units and programs are operating as usual. Click for more info.
Please note our ambulatory care services will be closed on Dec. 25-26, 2025, and Jan. 1, 2026. The day program will be closed Dec. 22-26, 2025.
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'This film reminded me that healing and growth happen when we stop hiding parts of ourselves and let others in.'
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Hoops. This is another story about the unnecessary hoops people with disabilities and their families are forced tojump through to get gov...
A year ago I bought my son two pairs of the same New Balance training shoe—one in white and one in black. A colleague had recommended i...
Dr. Paige Church is a neonatologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and a developmental pediatrician who sees children with spina bi...
Susan Wamithi grew up in Nairobi, Kenya. But her medical studies have taken her from Alabama to Grenada to England to Nairobi to Toronto....
Photos by Chelsea DeeIn 2013, BLOOM covered a unique sewing project in Maai Mahiu, northwest of Nairobi, that was changing the lives of K...
Cliff Lee first came to Holland Bloorview as a seven-year-old, when he was hospitalized for a brain injury following a school-yard accide...
After a skiing accident that injured her spine and shoulder, Tamara (Tammy) Gordon had to learn to write with her opposite hand and get a...
Over the last year Jennifer Choi Han made 10 videos about family life with a child with severe disabilities who is fed real, blended food...
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150 Kilgour Road
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