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Campaign for the Walter and Maria Schroeder BRAIN&HEART Centre

Join our $42-million campaign so we can do what no one has done before. We’re creating a centre where the world’s top specialists treat the toughest brain and heart cases — together.

St. Michael’s will soon be Canada’s only hospital that takes an integrated approach to health care for the brain and heart – without the silos that get in the way of the best medicine.

Thanks to the remarkable $19.125-million gift from legendary Canadian philanthropists Walter and Maria Schroeder, we’re building the Walter and Maria Schroeder BRAIN&HEART Centre.

It’s based on the latest medical thinking that the separation between brain and heart is artificial. What happens to one very often impacts the other.

  • A brain aneurysm can stop a heart
  • A heart attack can cause a stroke
  • Degenerative brain diseases like Alzheimer’s share a genetic link with heart disease
  • Though some diseases may show up in only one area, they still affect both the brain and heart

So why are the brain and the heart treated separately?

At St. Michael’s Hospital, they’re not. Unlike other hospitals in Canada, our brain and heart specialists work together to treat patients, and to invent medical tools and procedures that are best for both organs.

When it’s completed, The Walter and Maria Schroeder BRAIN&HEART Centre will have state-of-the-art facilities and equipment, and a space dedicated entirely to medical discovery and invention.

For the first time, care will be structured around the patient – not medicine.

Our campaign is 85 per cent completed. Please help us finish our new centre and lead the brain and heart revolution.

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Campaign for the Walter and Maria Schroeder BRAIN&HEART Centre

Join our $42-million campaign so we can do what no one has done before. We’re creating a centre where the world’s top specialists treat the toughest brain and heart cases — together…. more