Toronto General Hospital

Infobox Hospital
Name = PAGENAME
Org/Group = University Health Network


Caption = Toronto General Hospital from the northwest (College Street and University Avenue).

Location =
Region = Toronto
State = Ontario
Country = Canada
HealthCare = Medicare
Type = Teaching
Speciality = Cardiology and Transplantation
Standards =
Emergency = Yes
Affiliation= University of Toronto
Patron = Sophie, Countess of Wessex
Beds = 471
Founded = 1812
Closed =
Website = http://www.uhn.ca/tgh/
Wiki-Links = |The Toronto General Hospital (TGH), is a part of the University Health Network, and a major teaching hospital in downtown Toronto, Ontario. It is located in the Discovery District, directly north of the Hospital for Sick Children, across Gerrard Street West, and east of Princess Margaret Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital, across University Avenue. They are steps from Queen's Park and the Queen's Park subway station.

The emergency department now treats 28,065 persons each year, while the hospital also houses the major transplantation service for Ontario, performing heart, lung, kidney, liver, pancreas and small intestine, amongst others, for patients referred from all over Canada. In doing this, the TGH teaches resident physicians, nurses, and technicians, and conducts research through the Toronto General Research Institute.

Currently, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, as a member of the Canadian Royal Family, is patron of the hospital.

History

The hospital started as a small shed and was used as a military hospital during the War of 1812, after which it was founded as a permanent institutionndash York General Hospitalndash in 1829, at Simcoe and King Streets. In 1913, the hospital moved to its current location, since expanding and upgrading over the ensuing years. The 1913 structure, previously called the "College Wing", was eventually abandoned by the hospital, to become the home of the MaRS Discovery District after a new wing for the TGH was completed and opened in 2002.

=Additional

ee also

* List of Canadian organizations with royal patronage

External links

* [http://www.uhn.ca/tgh/ Hospital website]
* [http://www.uhnresearch.ca/institutes/tgri/index.htm Research]
* [http://www.ehealthinnovation.org/ Health Innovation]
* [http://www.marsdd.com/mars/About-MaRS/History/heritage-building-history.html MaRS Discovery District's "History of the MaRS Heritage Building"] touches on the TGH's early history and design.