WCH opens one of the first COVID-19 Assessment Centres in downtown Toronto.

Together with our partners, launch LTC+ to support primary care providers and nurse practitioners in long-term care homes with access to virtual consults and help avoid emergency department visits.

WCH introduces COVIDCare@Home to help individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 to safely recover from home.

Launch a community response team to support mobile COVID-19 testing in long-term care residences, retirement homes and congregate settings.

12 bed in-patient surgical unit in the Acute Ambulatory Care Unit (AACU) is opened to relieve pressure on the growing hospitalizations across the city.

WCH starts supporting Kensington Gardens long term care facility with testing and infection prevention, control and management.

WCH begins offering COVID-19 saliva testing as an alternate testing method for children aged 4-18 or people with a medical or anatomical problem that makes it difficult to have an NP swab.

First members of #TeamWCH are vaccinated as part of a pilot with our hub partner UHN.

WCH opens temporary 12-bed Alternate Level of Care (ALC) unit to help provide relief to the health care system.

Deploy first mobile vaccination team to Kensington Gardens and begin vaccinating long-term care residents and staff.

Our COVID-19 Assessment Centre reaches a milestone of 100,000 COVID-19 tests processed.

WCH Crossroads Clinic, with Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants and Refugee 613, launch multi-language COVID-19 vaccine information bulletin series to breakdown language barriers.

Together with partners, the Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health launched Maad’ookiing Mshkiki – Sharing Medicine – a virtual hub providing culturally relevant and trauma-informed information about COVID-19 vaccinations for First Nations, Inuit and Métis.

In partnership with the Mid-West Toronto Ontario Health Team, open a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the West End YMCA for front-line healthcare workers and community residents at greatest risk.

71% of eligible WCH staff and physicians roll up their sleeves and receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

WCH receives our first delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine for Family Practice Health Centre patients.

WCH Family Practice Health Centre (FPHC) opens a vaccine clinic and begins vaccinating eligible patients.

WCH joins partners at our first pop-clinic and vaccinates 3,190 people over 2 days at Jane & Finch.

46 WCH healthcare professionals redeployed to UHN and Mount Sinai Hospitals to support inpatient care and respond to the needs of the 3rd wave.

WCH, together with our partners, joins City of Toronto Sprint Strategy to vaccinate individuals in communities with the highest rates of COVID-19 and hosts ~160 clinics over the next four months.

WCH selected to pilot providing COVID-19 vaccines to youth aged 12-17 years old.

After four months of operations, we officially close the COVID-19 vaccination clinic at West End YMCA after providing 23,000 vaccines to front line workers and community members at high risk.

Together with our partners, WCH administers over 100,000 vaccines in communities with the highest rates of COVID-19 and lowest vaccination rates.