Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Partnership to help optimize access to high quality health care services

New Mackenzie Health and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Partnership to Enhance Patient Care

Picture of leaders posing after signing the partnership documentIn February 2014, Mackenzie Health and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Sunnybrook) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to expand and formalize their collaboration to optimize access to high quality health care services for the people of York Region and beyond.

The goals of the partnership are to:

  • Enhance each organization's ability to provide high quality services to the patients they serve
  • Reduce duplication and improve health system capacity by using the program strengths of each organization
  • Create a corridor of care for referral and repatriation for highly specialized tertiary and quaternary services needed by the residents of York Region
  • Explore opportunities for enhanced research and teaching activities between the organizations

Clinical services, including a number of existing collaborations, that Mackenzie Health and Sunnybrook agreed to explore include but are not limited to:

  • Vascular Surgery
  • High Risk Maternal and Newborn
  • Cardiac Services
  • Cancer Services
  • Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Rehabilitation and Complex Continuing Care
  • Stroke Services
  • Seniors' Care