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North York General Hospital (NYGH) is a
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in
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district, as well as southern
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, it offers acute care, ambulatory and long-term services at multiple sites. It is one of Canada's leading community academic hospitals and is affiliated with the
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. NYGH is one of the three constituent hospitals of the Peters-Boyd Academy of the
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History

North York General Hospital at Leslie Street and Sheppard Avenue was opened in 1968. The four founding partners were: Friends of North York General (later to become the North York General Hospital Foundation); the
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(IODE), a Canadian women's charitable organization; the Missionary Health Institute; and Volunteer Services. In 1960, a group of local citizens established the North Metropolitan Hospital Association to explore building a hospital to serve the growing area of North York. Under the leadership of Colonel
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, plans were made and funds raised for a 70-bed community hospital on the corner of Leslie and Sheppard. By November 1962, land on the Leslie site was obtained. Some 3,000 volunteers collected $3.2 million of the $8.6 million cost of the new hospital. On March 15, 1968, Premier
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officially dedicated North York General Hospital. The hospital underwent a major expansion that opened in 2003. On 1 April 2003 a nurse was infected with
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. Dr.
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recalls poring over patient charts throughout the Victoria Day weekend, held that year on 19 May, when he hypothesized that a disease that caused the emergency that the province had declared finished a few days earlier was actually still spreading among health-care workers and hospital patients. Low resumed containment efforts and it took a city-wide effort to beat the outbreak completely. On July 2, the
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removed Toronto from the list of affected cities. In Canada, health-care workers made up 43 per cent of SARS cases. North York General encompassed satellite sites, such as Branson Ambulatory Care Centre and the Seniors' Health Centre and Reactivation Care Centre. On March 1, 2017, North York General Hospital announced the hospital would not be renewing its lease at the Branson Ambulatory Care Centre in 2019 and would begin to transition services from that site. On December 10, 2017, the Reactivation Care Centre: A Central LHIN Hospitals Collaborative opened at 2111 Finch Avenue West. In May 2018, the hospital announced two new locations would replace the Branson Ambulatory Care Centre. In 2019, North York General Hospital was ranked the second best hospital in Canada and one of the top 100 hospitals world by
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Services

The General site is located at
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and
Sheppard Avenue Sheppard Avenue is an east–west principal arterial road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The street has two distinct branches near its eastern end, with the original route being a collector road leading to Pickering via a turnoff, and the main ro ...
in north central Toronto. It offers services including inpatient acute care services and a 24-hour full service emergency. The Charlotte & Lewis Steinberg Emergency at the General site is a full-service emergency. In the 2019-2020 fiscal year there were 28,091 inpatient stays with an average length of stay of 5.1 days. The hospital emergency department had 118,800 visits in 2019-20. The Cancer Program provides treatment for many types of cancers, including breast, colon, prostate, gynecological and urinary. Other services in the hospital include family and community medicine, genetics testing, maternal and pediatric care, diagnostic imaging, geriatric care, mental health, surgeries


Satellite sites


Branson Ambulatory Care Centre

The Branson Ambulatory Care Centre is located at Bathurst Street and
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West. It opened in 1957 as the North York Branson Hospital by the
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. It was named for Mr. William Henry Branson, an Adventist missionary and President of the
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. In 1997 it became part of North York General Hospital (as NYGH-Branson Division) after the final report by the Health Services Retructuring Commission. On March 1, 2017, North York General Hospital announced the hospital would not be renewing its lease at the Branson Ambulatory Care Centre in 2019 and would begin to transition services from that site. In May 2018, the hospital announced two new locations would replace the Branson Ambulatory Care Centre. Due to the
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, it is currently being used as a COVID-19 assessment centre. The assessment centre occupies the former Urgent Care Centre.


Seniors' Health Centre and Reactivation Care Centre

The Seniors' Health Centre opened in 1985 and is located at 2 Buchan Court (Leslie and Sheppard). It houses both a
long-term care Long-term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long-term care is focused on individualized and ...
home with 192 beds and Specialized Geriatric Services. These services are aimed at seniors with medical or mental health problems that threaten their independence or the ability to live at home. Along with the day hospital, the Seniors' Health Centre offers many elder care clinics. The Reactivation Care Centre is a collaborative and innovative approach designed to help patients who no longer need acute care services, but often find themselves waiting for an alternate care facility, such as convalescent and long-term care. NYGH has a patient unit in the centre.


References

* North York General Hospital receives 2017 Patient Safety Champion Award recognizing its innovative approach to Never Events
www.patientsafetyinstitute.ca
June 13, 2017 * North York General offers breast cancer surgery, reconstruction at once
InsideToronto.com
Dec. 26, 2016 * Health Heroes: Paediatric Surgeon Dr. Sharifa Himidan
Reader's Digest, Canada's Health Heroes
December 2016 * Innovative biopsy procedure for prostate cancer
CTV News
November 25, 2016 * North York General Hospital get $1.9 million provincial "HIRF" grant for facility upgrades
InsideToronto.com
August 8, 2016 * Nurses drive 'closed loop medication administration' success
Canadian Healthcare Technology
July 7, 2016 * North York General Hospital's breast cancer program receives full accreditation from the NAPBC
InsideToronto.com
June 8, 2016 ;Citations


External links


North York General Hospital website

Reactivation Care Centre: A Central LHIN Hospitals Collaborative

North York General Foundation
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