SCARBOROUGH, ON, Aug. 19,
2024 /CNW/ - Toyota Canada today announced a
$500,000 donation to Providence
Healthcare in Scarborough for the
renovation of the Toyota Canada Motor Skills Clinic. The
investment will support the modernization of the existing facility
to further enhance the clinic's program delivery.
First established in 2006, Providence Healthcare's Toyota
Canada Motor Skills Clinic brings outdoor mobility settings
indoors, creating a space that includes real-life elements,
including a vehicle, wheelchair cut-outs, streetlights, a paved
sidewalk, and curbs. With the purpose of assisting patients who are
regaining and re-learning strength and mobility, Providence
Healthcare's relationship with Toyota Canada is rooted in shared
values.
"At Toyota, we believe in the power of human movement and
enabling individuals to live out their full potential through
mobility," said Leslie Miller, VP,
Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer of Toyota Canada.
"Providence Healthcare has been a local leader in rehabilitation,
and we're proud to support their mission through the modernization
of the Toyota Canada Motor Skills Clinic."
Toyota's vision of becoming a global mobility company aligns
with the clinic's commitment to enable patients and families, often
with new onset mobility limitations, to re-enter and participate in
their communities more safely and confidently.
"Many of the patients undergoing rehabilitation at
Providence—whether they are recovering from a stroke, critical
illness, orthopedic surgery or an amputated limb—feel like they are
facing an impossible road ahead," said Dr. Ashley Verduyn, Vice-President of Medical
Affairs and Chief of Providence Healthcare, a site of Unity Health
Toronto. "Thanks to Toyota Canada's generous support, they and
their families can approach their recovery journey with confidence.
Thank you, Toyota Canada, for helping us break down barriers to
accessibility."
The Toyota Canada Motor Skills Clinic's modernization
project plans to incorporate new technologies to take it to the
leading edge over the next two years. This includes advanced
simulations incorporating virtual reality and artificial
intelligence.
About Providence Healthcare
Providence Healthcare, a site of Unity Health Toronto in
Scarborough, is a national leader
in rehabilitation, seniors' care and palliative care. Its rehab
experts take in patients with the greatest degree of disability
from stroke, falls, illness and orthopedic surgery, and return to
them the strength and mobility they have lost.
Its health teams, renowned for their compassion, also provide
exceptional care to patients in the later stages of their
lives—never forgetting that what is most important always is
quality of life.
About Toyota Canada Inc.
Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) is the exclusive Canadian distributor
of Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Toyota has sold over six million
vehicles in Canada through a
national network of 287 Toyota and Lexus dealerships. Toyota is
dedicated to bringing safety, quality, dependability and
reliability to the vehicles Canadians drive and the service they
receive. TCI's head office is in Scarborough, with regional offices in
Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Halifax, and parts distribution centres in
Clarington and Vancouver. Toyota also operates two
manufacturing facilities in Canada. Having produced more than 11 million
vehicles, popular Canadian models built at these facilities include
Toyota RAV4, Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, Lexus RX 350 and RX 450h hybrid,
as well as Lexus NX 250, NX 350 and NX 350h hybrid. The company has
sold more than 20 million electrified vehicles worldwide and is the
number one seller of electrified vehicles in Canada.
SOURCE Toyota Canada Inc.