Leader for Ontario’s upcoming women and kids’ hospital

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Trillium Health Partners announced that Remi Ejiwunmi (pictured) as been appointed vice president of the future Shah Family Hospital for Women and Children. The hospital will be the first of its kind in Ontario and located within the future Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital, which is currently known as Mississauga Hospital.

Remi has been a visionary leader in the field of midwifery through her 28 years of service and has held leadership roles with Trillium Health Partners, the Association of Ontario Midwives, the Ontario Midwifery Steering Committee and the Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada (HIROC). She is also an Adjunct Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University and an Adjunct Scientist at McMaster University Midwifery Research Centre.

Born in London, England to parents from Nigeria and Iran, Remi came to Mississauga with her family as a new immigrant in 1980. Driven by her personal experience and passion for the diversity of the city she calls home, Remi has a deep commitment to building equity, inclusion and anti-racism within the health system. She is a founding member of the Black Reproductive Working Group, where she helps to create policies, improve reproductive health and reduce inequities within the Black community.

Remi’s leadership and experience will help shape the development of the new women’s and children’s hospital, the first of it’s kind in Ontario, which will be purpose-built for families, offering specialized services and integrated care enabled by health system partnerships.

The Shah Family Hospital for Women and Children will profoundly impact the generational health of the community, through all stages of infancy and childhood and through all phases of adulthood for women.

The new hospital will be innovative and reimagine how women and children receive care to ensure the whole person is supported, while caring for complex medical and mental health conditions. This work begins now and will benefit all people and families accessing reproductive, gynecological, paediatric and postpartum care, including those who identify outside of the gender binary.

For more information, please visit trilliumhealthworks.ca.