Lakeridge Health Oshawa

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Lakeridge Health Oshawa, formerly Oshawa General Hospital, is a hospital located in Oshawa, Ontario. Founded in August 1910 as a two-story building, major additions occurred until 1970 with the addition of the surgical and maternity wings in the 1920s and numerous other sponsored wings and halls from the 1940s to 1970s.

In 1998 the hospital, along with Memorial Hospital Bowmanville, North Durham Health Services, and Whitby General Hospital were placed under the administration of the Lakeridge Health Corporation. The hospital was re-named and, with the closing of Whitby General as a full-service hospital, was given health responsibility over both Oshawa and Whitby.

The hospital is now the largest in Durham Region, with 437 beds and more than 60,000 emergency visits and over 18,000 surgeries a year.