Hi I'm Craig DuHamel and I'm the Vice President of Communications at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
and in the sixty or so years
since the hospital has been founded we have grown considerably and
as a result one of the things we have to take care of is actually coming up with
some street names for the roadways on our campus. The campus is
situated on about 97 acres of parkland and to make it easier for
emergency response staff to respond to a crisis or some kind of emergency
on our campus, we have to be more specific about the addresses on
our site. So follow me as we take a tour of the campus
and you can cast your vote for your favorite roadway name.
Here we are
at Raab Boulevard. Now, the the A and J Raab Boulevard was named
for the Raab family. The boulevard itself actually extends
down to our veteran's residence and that's signficant
because the Raab family were actually immigrants from France during the Second World War
and at the time they were so intruiged with Sunnybrook and
its dedication to care for Canada's War Veterans,
they donated a significant sum of money to the hospital to ensure that Sunnybrook
could continue to care for Canada's war heroes.
So here we are on the north entrance to the campus
and this entrance runs west to east and runs from Bayview Avenue
all the way to our estate properties at the
end of the campus. So your first option is Discovery Drive
and we chose that option primarily because of our research mandate.
The other option is Sunnybrook Drive. We chose that
option because we don't actually have a road on the campus that's
named Sunnybrook. This is option two on
the website, and this curve or small loop actually
leads up to the Vaughan Estate House, and the Vaughan Estate is one of the original
family homes on the Sunnybrook campus. The other is McLean House
and these two estate properties have now been converted into convention
space that are available for corporate or private functions any time of the year.
Your two options here are Learning Curve and
Estates Crescent. Here we are at
option number three on the website. This is a small hill that connects option number
one to the main part of the campus. We have two options for you here, the first is
Veteran's Hill, emblematic of the veteran's centre which is just around
the corner, and the corner is Cardiac Hill. Sunnybrook has a large
heart centre here called the Schulich Heart Centre and it also might be
emblematic of the cardiac issue you have when you climb the hill.
This is option number four on the website. It connects
option number five and comes from the hill option number three.
It runs behind the hospital and there are two choices for you to make
here. One is When It Matters Most Drive, which is consistent with
the tagline of the hospital, When It Matters Most.
And the second is Compassion Road. This is option number five on the website
and this road stretches from the cancer centre to the helopad which
services our trauma program. We have two options for this road
and the first is Lifesaving Way which of course is consistent with the trauma
program. And the second is Nightingale Avenue which
is to honour Florence Nightingale and the more than 2700
nurses who work at Sunnybrook each and every day.
This is option number six on the website. This is probably one of the busier
streets on campus. It stretches from Bayview Avenue and
goes along in front of M wing, the main entrance to the hospital.
We have two choices here for you. Of course, there's always a third option of
giving us your own suggestion. The first option we've selected is Breakthrough Boulevard
and the second is Innovation Avenue.
So this is option number seven on the website and
this option runs parallel to Bayview Avenue, it runs north to
south on the campus, and we've given two choices here.
One choice is Wellness Way, and the other is Patient Care Lane
and those two choices primarily signify our
patient care, obviously, primarily because of the access to
Wellspring, a cancer support centre, and the access to our main patient care
wings.