London Health Sciences Centre

London Health Sciences Centre is one of Canada’s largest acute care teaching hospitals and the largest employer in the region with more than 13,000 staff and physicians.  As a regional referral centre, London Health Sciences Centre cares for the most medically complex patients including critically injured adults and children in southwestern Ontario and neighbouring regions. Through more than one million patient visits a year accessing a broad range of specialized clinical services. LHSC has been at the forefront of medicine in Canada for 149 years.  Building on the traditions of its founding hospitals to provide compassionate care in an academic teaching setting, London Health Sciences Centre is home to Children’s Hospital, University Hospital, Victoria Hospital, the Kidney Care Centre, two family medical centres, the Verspeeten Family Cancer Centre, and two research institutes – Children’s Health Research Institute and London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute.

As a teaching hospital and a recognized leader in medical discovery and health research, London Health Sciences Centre has a history of more than 70 international and national firsts and attracts top clinicians and researchers from around the world through its commitment to research and innovation. Through our affiliation with Western University and more than 30 other educational institutions, we train more than 4,000 medical and health-care professionals annually.