{"entity":{"id":"st-michaels-hospital-toronto","kind":"institution","name":"St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto","aka":["St. Michael's Hospital","St. Michael’s Hospital - Unity Health Toronto","Unity Health Toronto"],"tldr":"A Catholic teaching hospital in downtown Toronto, part of the Unity Health Toronto network and the University of Toronto, that gives outpatient cancer treatment for breast, bowel, stomach, pancreas, liver, lung, prostate and blood cancers.","summary":"St. Michael's Hospital is a Catholic teaching and research hospital in downtown Toronto, fully affiliated with the University of Toronto and home to the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute; it belongs to Unity Health Toronto with Providence Healthcare and St. Joseph's Health Centre, and the network says the Sisters of St. Joseph opened it in 1892. Unity Health's Oncology and Endoscopy programme provides outpatient cancer care for breast, colorectal and stomach, pancreatic and hepatobiliary, lung and prostate cancers, gastrointestinal stromal tumours and blood cancers such as lymphoma and myeloma, with testing and screening, immunotherapy, chemotherapy and targeted therapy, surgery, endoscopy, clinical trials and palliative care, and with genetic testing and radiation therapy through partner organisations. At St. Michael's it lists a Medical Daycare Unit for outpatient cancer treatment, an inpatient oncology unit in the Peter Gilgan Tower, the CIBC Breast Centre, and an after-hours symptom telephone service run with CAREchart@home and Cancer Care Ontario. Newsweek and Statista's World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026 list for oncology ranks it 297.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"Unity Health Toronto: St. Michael's Hospital","url":"https://unityhealth.to/locations/st-michaels-hospital/"},{"label":"Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 297 (St. Michael’s Hospital - Unity Health Toronto, Toronto)","url":"https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology"},{"label":"Unity Health Toronto: Oncology and Endoscopy","url":"https://unityhealth.to/areas-of-care/programs-and-clinics/oncology-and-endoscopy/"},{"label":"Unity Health Toronto: who we are","url":"https://unityhealth.to/about-unity-health/about-unity-health-toronto/who-we-are/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Toronto","country":"CA","lat":43.653,"lng":-79.377,"institutionType":"hospital","website":"https://unityhealth.to/locations/st-michaels-hospital/","newsweekOncology2026":297,"programs":["Oncology and Endoscopy programme","Medical Daycare Unit (outpatient cancer treatment)","CIBC Breast Centre","After-hours cancer symptom telephone service"]},"route":"/institutions/st-michaels-hospital-toronto/","neighbours":{"collection":[{"id":"newsweek-hospitals","kind":"collection","name":"Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals: Oncology","route":"/collections/newsweek-hospitals/"}]}}