Province invests $4 million to create a new fetal medicine centre at Mount Sinai Hospital

Yesterday’s Ontario’s budget included exciting news for Sinai Health System with the announcement of a $4 million investment towards creating the Ontario Fetal Centre. Based at Mount Sinai Hospital and in partnership with SickKids, the Centre will be a specialized provincial Centre of Excellence for fetal care, research and education – the first of its kind in Canada

Together Mount Sinai and SickKids perform more than 100 in-utero fetal surgeries and procedures a year. In 2017, clinical teams at both hospitals performed the first Canadian in-utero repair of spina bifida in a fetus at 25 weeks gestation. That same year they collaborated by repairing a congenital heart defect in a fetus a few weeks before birth.

It is a testament to our organization and the talented clinicians in our fetal medicine program that our government has confidence in our programs and ability to deliver this essential service to our patients and families.

Read the full news release here.