For other hospitals in Toronto named "general hospital", see Toronto General Hospital (disambiguation).
Hospital in Toronto, Ontario
Toronto General Hospital
University Health Network
Geography
Location
200 Elizabeth Street Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4
Organisation
Care system
Medicare
Type
Teaching
Affiliated university
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Patron
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh
Services
Emergency department
Yes
Beds
471
Speciality
Cardiology and Transplantation
History
Opened
1812
Links
Website
www.uhn.ca/OurHospitals/TGH
The Toronto General Hospital (TGH) is a major teaching hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and the flagship campus of University Health Network (UHN). It is located in the Discovery District of Downtown Toronto along University Avenue's Hospital Row; it is directly north of The Hospital for Sick Children, across Gerrard Street West, and east of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Mount Sinai Hospital. The hospital serves as a teaching hospital for the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. In 2019, the hospital was ranked first for research in Canada by Research Infosource for the ninth consecutive year.[1]
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. The hospital is the largest organ transplant center in North America, performing 639 transplants in 2017.[2] The hospital is also renowned for cardiac and thoracic surgery. The world's first single and double lung transplants were performed at TGH in 1983 and 1986 and the world's first valve-sparing aortic root replacement was done by Tirone David at Toronto General Hospital in 1992.[3] The Lung Transplant program is currently the largest in the world, performing 167 lung transplants in 2017.[4] In 2015, surgeons performed the world's first triple organ transplant (lung, liver and pancreas) in 19 year old Reid Wylie at Toronto General Hospital.[5] TGH teaches resident physicians, nurses, and technicians; it also conducts research through the Toronto General Research Institute.
Currently, Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, as a member of the Canadian Royal Family, is patron of the hospital.
^"UHN RANKED NO. 1 IN CANADA'S TOP 40 RESEARCH HOSPITALS FOR 2017". UHN. UHN. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
^"UHN now largest adult transplant program in North America". UHN. Retrieved 3 Jan 2019.
^David, TE (April 1992). "An aortic valve-sparing operation for patients with aortic incompetence and aneurysm of the ascending aorta". J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 103 (4): 617–622. doi:10.1016/S0022-5223(19)34942-6. PMID 1532219.
^"UHN now home to largest transplant program in North America". UHN. 5 March 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
^"Triple Transplant Teen Doing Well at Three Months After Rare Surgery". Newswise. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
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