Daring to transform care

Holland Bloorview 2025-2026 Impact Report

Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is committed to transforming care and building an inclusive world. This report highlights how, together, we are raising the bar in excellent, safe care; accelerating insights and innovation through our learning health system; preparing the next generation of experts in pediatric disability; and scaling programs beyond our walls so that children, youth and families across this province and beyond can receive the right care, at the right time, closer to home.

Land acknowledgement

Some white flowers

As we reflect on the past year, we affirm our commitment to truth and reconciliation. This commitment is grounded in trust, respect, continuous learning and unlearning, and honouring diverse ways of knowing, being and healing.

We are grateful to be in Tkaronto (Toronto), a Mohawk word meaning, “the place in the water where the trees are standing.” We live, work and provide care on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee-speaking nations, including the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and Mohawk. For more than 15,000 years, this land has been a place of gathering.

On our journey toward truth and reconciliation, we continue to examine our responsibility to support decolonization in pediatric rehabilitation across the health-care system and to value all ways of healing. Over the past year, Holland Bloorview has continued to take meaningful action, including creating accessible smudging spaces to support inclusive, culturally and spiritually sensitive care for Indigenous clients and families.

We recognize this work is ongoing. Guided by the wisdom of the communities we serve, we remain committed to listening, learning and taking action across this territory known as Turtle Island (North America).

Chi Miigwetch, Nia:weh, Merci – Thank you.

Letter from CEO and board chair

At Holland Bloorview, transformation is not an aspiration. It is a responsibility. As pressures rise across pediatric health care, we’re daring to redesign care around what matters most: safer experiences, inclusive practices, better outcomes and more seamless support for children, youth and families.

Over the past year, we have strengthened the foundations of safe, high-quality care while embracing new ways of thinking informed by data, AI, technology, lived experience and partnership. From advancing personalized treatment approaches to building our learning health system, our work reflects a deep commitment to improving outcomes today while shaping a more responsive and inclusive health-care system for the future.

Equally important is how we invest in our team. We are supporting the next generation of clinicians, researchers and leaders by building environments where everyone feels they belong. We are also taking thoughtful steps to reduce our environmental footprint so that we can further extend impact well beyond our walls.

This progress is made possible through the dedication of our staff, volunteers and learners. We are deeply grateful for their continued partnership and for the trust of government, research partners and donors.

Looking ahead, we will focus on scaling what works – expanding access, removing barriers, strengthening outcomes and deepening partnerships across the system – so more children, youth and families can benefit from Holland Bloorview’s specialized care, when and where they need it.

We are confident in our shared ability to lead change as we dare to transform care as Canada’s hospital for children with disabilities and developmental differences.