Redevelopment
The new Toronto General Hospital Core Lab (operated by Toronto Medical Laboratories) is the largest clinical processing clinical laboratory in Canada. The entire lab is automated from input to refrigerated sample storage, no human hands touch the samples. Results are issued to the physicians automatically by robots. If additional tests are requested by the physician, the robot pulls the sample from the storage unit and undertakes the required tests and re-stores the sample without human intervention. In addition to the Core automated functions, the lab includes an extensive range of wet bench testing including Urinalysis, Microbiology, Haematology and other specialized functions. A major purpose in the renovation was to "repatriate" lab functions to the TGH site into one consolidated platform for operational efficiency and quality assurance. In order to accomplish this, a number of other specialty labs were reorganized and relocated. These included Mass Spectroscopy, Infection Prevention and Control and Malignant Hyperthermia. All these represented small but intensely organized programs each with specialized work flows and equipment.

Location
Toronto, Ontario

Area
25,000 sq. ft.

Construction Cost
$5.5 million

Completion Date
2007