Toronto East General Hospital

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Coordinates: 43°41′23.40″N 79°19′32.50″W / 43.6898333, -79.3256944

Toronto East General Hospital
Toronto East General Hospital
Coxwell Avenue entrance
Location
Place East YorkToronto, Ontario, (Canada)
Organization
Care System Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP)
Hospital Type Teaching
Affiliated University University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Services
Emergency Dept. Yes (acute, subacute and ambulatory)
Beds 470
History
Founded 1929
Links
Website Homepage
See also Hospitals in Canada

Toronto East General Hospital is a teaching hospital located at 825 Coxwell Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, in the former borough of East York.

The hospital has 382 acute care beds, as well as 13 rehabilitation and 75 complex continuing care beds. In 2006/07, the hospital had over 60,000 emergency room visits and more than 19,000 in-patient admissions.[1]

Approximately 3,500 babies were delivered during this period at the hospital's Maternal Newborn and Child Health Centre, which provides Level II Maternity and Neonatal Care and is a regional paediatric centre of the Child Health Network of Toronto.[2]

The hospital's chief of staff is Dr. Alfio Meschino and its president and CEO is Rob Devitt.[3]

[edit] Services

Two nurses at Toronto East General Hospital in 1955
Two nurses at Toronto East General Hospital in 1955
  • Ambulatory and Community Services
  • Complex Continuing Care and Short-Term Rehabilitation
  • Emergency
  • Maternal/Newborn/Child
  • Medicine
  • Mental Health
  • Pharmacy
  • Surgery
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Laboratory Medicine[4]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Toronto East General Hospital. TEGH Facts and Figures. Retrieved on 2007-09-23.
  2. ^ Toronto East General Hospital. Maternal Newborn and Child Health. Retrieved on 2007-09-23.
  3. ^ Toronto East General Hospital. About Us: Executive Team. Retrieved on 2007-09-23.
  4. ^ Toronto East General Hospital. TEGH Fast Fact Sheet. Retrieved on 2007-09-23.
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Coordinates: 43°41′23″N 79°19′33″W / 43.689788, -79.325704