Bridgepoint Health is comprised of:
Bridgepoint Hospital provides complex care and complex rehabilitation to individuals living with complex chronic disease and disability through a broad range of inpatient and outpatient services. Currently, Bridgepoint Hospital has 455 inpatient beds.
Located in Toronto’s Riverdale community, patients come to Bridgepoint from across Ontario to receive specialized care and support in understanding and managing their complex chronic conditions.
Our focus is on providing coordinated and integrated care to patients living with multiple chronic diseases and disabilities. We also provide care to patients who are recovering from a major trauma, such as a brain injury caused by a car accident; seeking rehabilitation after a sudden illness, such as a stroke; or recovering from a major surgery, or a long-stay in an intensive care unit.
We help thousands of individuals recover completely or learn to manage their chronic conditions, while living full lives. We help our patients to regain as much independence as possible and work with them to rebuild their lives in their community, or in another care setting, such as supportive housing, or long-term care.
We are also teaching a new generation of health care providers about complex chronic disease and, through our research, we are developing and promoting the latest advancements in care to this patient population.
Our approach to patient care is holistic. Our patients don’t come in parts and so they should not be treated in parts. Bridgepoint patients receive integrated care from an interdisciplinary team of health professionals including physicians, nurses, speech language pathologists, occupational and physical therapists, dieticians, and pharmacists who work together to ensure that their mind, body and spiritual needs are effectively and safely met.
Bridgepoint currently provides two core clinical programs: Complex Care and Complex Rehabilitation. We also provide a number of outpatient and support services that are offered through on-site clinics.
Serves people with severe stroke, advanced dementia, progressive neurological/degenerative diseases, moderate to severe brain injury, advanced diabetes with complications, and advanced HIV/AIDS. It also serves complex frail elders and end-stage cancer patients with complications, many of whom may be transitioning from a serious or prolonged stay in another hospital.
Serves stroke patients with moderate function loss, patients with acquired brain injury, patients with multiple, severe fractures and patients who have gone through a long-term, debilitating treatment, or major surgery with complications. Rehabilitation is provided on an inpatient basis and on an outpatient basis through our Day Treatment Program.
The Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation serves as virtual hub, bringing together the best and the brightest minds from across the globe to address the growing challenge of complex chronic disease.
Like care models, conventional research models have been focused on symptoms, single diseases and the urgency of saving lives. Until now, there has been little coordinated research into the inter-relationships of diseases or conditions that are typical of people with multiple chronic diseases or complex chronic disease. But research into this specialized area is beginning to attract supporters and advocates and the Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation is leading the way with the development of new research models that cross disease boundaries and examine how best to treat patients with many diseases.
Dr. Renée Lyons is the first Chair in Complex Chronic Disease Research in Canada and the TD Financial Group Scientific Director of the Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation.
Under Dr. Lyons’ leadership, and through our affiliation with The University of Toronto, we will support research focused on examining:
- The impact that one disease has on another;
- The implications of treating multiple diseases at the same time;
- The efficacy of different care models; and,
- The impact of self-managed care.
In building our research agenda, we will:
- Establish benchmarks for measuring positive change;
- Improve standards of practice; and,
- Develop international research partnerships to bring advanced learning from elsewhere to the Canadian health care environment.
Our relationships will be reciprocal and our impact will be both global and local. Our research and education agenda is guided by our wellness philosophy, which permeates all aspects of our care.
At Bridgepoint, we know that preventing chronic disease starts with effective family health care. That’s why we opened the Bridgepoint Family Health Team.
The Bridgepoint Family Health Team brings family physicians together with interdisciplinary health care professionals - including a nurse practitioner, registered nurse, social worker and pharmacist, who work as a team to provide you with:
- Comprehensive family medicine services;
- Health promotion services;
- Focused care for patients living with complex chronic disease.
Funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the Bridgepoint Family Health Team serves patients both in the Riverdale community and from across the Greater Toronto Area. The Team operates with an innovative service model that includes the patient as a full partner and participant in their care.
Bridgepoint Health Foundation supports the mission of Bridgepoint Health through charitable giving and community partnerships. Our generous donors make it possible for Bridgepoint to provide medical equipment, patient care programs, education and research that change the lives of people living with complex chronic disease.
The Foundation’s Life.Changes. campaign seeks to raise $60 million to support the creation of the new Bridgepoint Hospital and the establishment of the Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation.
Bridgepoint Health Foundation is a registered Canadian charity (Charitable Registration No. 88923 4399 RR0001), incorporated in 1990. It adheres to Imagine Canada’s voluntary Ethical Fundraising and Financial Accountability Code.