Women's College Hospital

Women's College Hospital is well established as a leader in women's health - our remarkable history goes back more than a century in Ontario. We have gone through many changes in the past several years - the most recent being regaining our independent governance on April 1, 2006. This is a very exciting time for us, as we explore new and better ways to provide care to women and their families throughout every phase of their lives.

Women's College Hospital is a community dedicated to achieving leadership in women's health in an ambulatory care setting.

We are the first and only independent ambulatory care hospital in Ontario, and the only hospital in Ontario with a primary focus on women's health. As a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, we support research in women's health and will lead the way in training health-care providers within an ambulatory setting.

The WCH Melanoma and Pigmented Lesion Clinic

Women’s College Hospital’s Melanoma and Pigmented Lesion Clinic is an interdisciplinary clinic that serves patients with melanoma or those who have a high risk for developing melanoma.  This includes patients with a strong family history of melanoma and those with more than 50 irregular moles.  The Clinic’s health care team includes dermatologists, one of whom specializes in dermatologic surgery, and registered nurses.

Staff at the clinic perform the following services:

• Treating newly discovered melanoma in a timely and thorough fashion
• Assessing patients at high risk for melanoma
• Arranging appropriate follow-up and education
• Arranging the taking of full-body photos, which clients use monthly to check skin changes