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Women's College Hospital Timeline

Date Event
1883 Woman’s Medical College opens
1911 Women’s College Hospital and Dispensary opens: a seven-bed hospital where medically trained women could practise medicine.
1947 Collaborated in the development of the simplified Pap test for detecting early symptoms of cancer, particularly of the cervix.
1948 Opening of the first Cancer Detection Clinic in Ontario
1963 WCH became the first hospital in Ontario to use mammography as a diagnostic tool to detect breast cancer.
1971 WCH partnered with the Tri-Hospital Diabetes Education Centre, Canada’s first comprehensive teaching program in an ambulatory setting for people with diabetes.
1971 The first Perinatal Intensive Care Unit in Canada opens at WCH.
1973 Opening of the Bay Centre for Birth Control, the first hospital-supported walk-in clinic.
1976 Psoriasis Education and Research Centre opens – the first centre in Canada to place emphasis on self-care treatment.
1977 Henrietta Banting Breast Centre opens – a treatment, education and research centre for breast disease.
1981 Perinatal Intensive Care Unit was declared the Regional High-Risk Pregnancy Unit - The first of its kind in Canada.
1984 WCH opens the first regional Sexual Assault Care Centre in Ontario.
1987 Urgent Care Centre opens – the first of its kind in Ontario.
1987 Established the Brief Psychotherapy Centre for Women, the first outpatient therapy program in Canada.
1988 Regional Women’s Health Centre opens.
1988 WCH delivered the first test-tube quintuplets in Canada.
1991 Ricky Kanee Schachter Dermatology Centre opens – Centre opens to pursue dermatological research, education and patient care.
1991 The first colorectal cancer clinic in Toronto was launched by WCH (U of T Jessie Gray Colorectal Clinic)
1994 Opening of the first multidisciplinary osteoporosis clinic of its kind in Canada.
1995 WCH was designated a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Women’s Health, the first in the hemisphere.
1996 Opening of the Environmental Health Clinic, the only one of its kind in Ontario.
1996 Establishment of Canada’s first cardiac prevention and rehabilitation program designed exclusively for women (Women’s Cardiovascular Health Initiative).
2000 Creation of www.womenshealthmatters.ca, the first hospital-based consumer health information website for women.
2001 Response Centre and the 23-Hour Day Unit open.
2002 Labyrinth opens – Canada's first and only hospital-based labyrinth.
2003 The first SARS Assessment Clinic in Canada opens (Women’s College ACC).
2006 WCH became Ontario’s only academic ambulatory hospital with a primary focus on women’s health as it begins operating independently under the Public Hospitals Act.
2008 Completed Canada’s first breast implant reconstruction in a single stage.
2009 Opening of the Centre for Headache, Ontario’s only hospital-based headache centre.

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