TORONTO — °µÍø½ûÇøion is now complete on the new Garry Hurvitz Brain Sciences Centre at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to brain science research and care in Toronto which is expected to begin delivering care to patients by January 2025.
The province invested $60 million to support the project.
The centre will be the first of its kind in Canada, featuring over 120,000 square feet of space and serving as a hub for mental health care and innovative research. Individuals and families living with complex brain disorders and illnesses will be able to connect to interdisciplinary health care teams from across the brain sciences field in one location, including psychiatry, neurology, imaging, neurosurgery and geriatric medicine to advance the research and treatment of brain disorders and illnesses, a release indicates.
Services for youth and adults include:
- 11 new inpatient, fully private mental health beds to connect people to intensive care, bringing the total number of beds to 47;
- a classroom for youth to continue their education while in treatment;
- neurology and neuromodulation services for people with severe medication and treatment resistant mental health disorders;
- brain health clinics to support people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer’s, movement disorders, stroke, seizure disorders, headaches and other neurological conditions; and
- sleep laboratory services, including sleep rooms and ambulatory clinics.
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