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Toronto General Hospital

Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Summary

Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Field	Value
name	Toronto General Hospital
org_group	University Health Network
image	Toronto - ON - Toronto General Hospital.jpg
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location	200 Elizabeth Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 2C4
healthcare	Medicare
type	Teaching
speciality	Cardiology and Transplantation
standards
emergency	Yes
affiliation	University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
patron	Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh
beds	471
founded	1812
closed
website
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Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4 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.

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. 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. The Lung Transplant program is currently the largest in the world, performing 167 lung transplants in 2017. 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. 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.

History

The Toronto General Hospital as it appeared in 1895

The hospital started as a small shed in the old town and was used as a British Army military hospital during the War of 1812, after which it was founded as a permanent institutionYork General Hospitalin 1829, at John and King Streets (now home to Bell Lightbox). In 1855 a new home for the hospital was built on the north side of Gerrard Street, east of Parliament, using a design by architect William Hay. In 1913, the hospital moved to College Street, near its current location, expanding and upgrading over the ensuing years. The 1913 structure, previously called the College Wing, was eventually sold 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.

Ajmera Transplant Centre

Toronto General Hospital was the largest organ transplantation center in North America in 2017, performing 639 transplants in total.

Lung - TGH performed 167 lung transplants, making it the largest lung transplant program in the world.
Liver - TGH performed 195 liver Transplants with 39 of those living donor transplants in 2017 making the program the largest in North America.
Kidney - TGH performed 202 kidney transplants, 65 of those were living donor transplants, making the program the largest in Canada
Heart - TGH performed 34 heart transplants in 2017, making the program the largest in Canada
Pancreas - TGH performed 8 pancreas transplants in 2018, making the program the largest in Canada.
Kidney-Pancreas - TGH performed 34 kidney-pancreas transplants in 2017, making the program the largest in Canada.
Small Bowel - TGH performed 1 small bowel transplant in 2018.

Peter Munk Cardiac Centre

Toronto General Hospital is the home of the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre (PMCC), which is one of the largest open heart centers in Canada and is ranked first in Canada and in the top ten in North America for academic productivity. Many clinical firsts in cardiovascular care were performed at TGH. The center is named after Peter Munk, the founder and chairman of Barrick Gold corporation, who donated $100 million in 2017, the largest donation to a hospital in Canadian history, at the time. He donated a total of $175 million since 1993 to the hospital.

Research

Toronto General Hospital has had many research achievements, including:

The development and first clinical use of insulin in the treatment of diabetes – 1922
World's first clinical use of the anticoagulant heparin – 1935
World's first external heart pacemaker used in open heart resuscitation – 1950
World's first successful valve transplant – 1955
World's first coronary care unit – 1965
World's first successful single lung transplant (Tom Hall) – 1983
World's first successful double lung transplant (Ann Harrison) – 1986
World's first aortic valve transplant using the Toronto Heart Valve – 1987
Canada's first and largest HIV/AIDS clinic, the Immunodeficiency Clinic – 1994
World's first successful triple organ transplant (lung, liver and pancreas) – 2015
Canada's first hand transplant – 2016

References

"UHN RANKED NO. 1 IN CANADA'S TOP 40 RESEARCH HOSPITALS FOR 2017". UHN.
"UHN now largest adult transplant program in North America". UHN.
(April 1992). "An aortic valve-sparing operation for patients with aortic incompetence and aneurysm of the ascending aorta". J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.
(5 March 2018). "UHN now home to largest transplant program in North America".
"Triple Transplant Teen Doing Well at Three Months After Rare Surgery". Newswise.
"Cardiac Care Network". Cardiac Care Network.
(11 January 2018). "A donor is giving a record $100 million to CAMH — and doesn’t want to be named". Toronto Star.
(19 September 2017). "Peter Munk donates $100 million to the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre". Toronto Star.
"UHN:".
"PMCC Firsts in Cardiology".
"Triple Transplant Teen Doing Well at Three Months After Rare Surgery".
"Trillium Gift of Life Network - Ontario's Organ and Tissue Donation Agency : Transplants". Trillium Gift of Life.

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