The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)

SickKids is the city’s pediatric emergency department and the pediatric trauma centre for Toronto and the GTA. The campus mailing address is 555 University Avenue; official coming-to-hospital notes put the main entrance at 170 Elizabeth Street (open 24/7) with University Avenue used mainly for weekday drop-offs. The Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at sickkids.ca states it is the primary-care pediatric hospital for downtown, the tertiary pediatric referral centre for the GTA, and the pediatric trauma centre, with approximately 200 major trauma cases a year managed in the ED and more than 80,000 ED visits annually. Phone on city health-line listings for the ED is 416-813-5807; hospital switchboard is 416-813-1500. First-timers: this is children and youth, not a general adult trauma bay. Underground parking is off Elm Street; St. Patrick and Queen’s Park subway stations are the walk-in pair. Check sickkids.ca for current family-presence rules before you go — they change.