North York General Hospital (NYGH) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, offers acute care, ambulatory and long-term services at multiple sites. Known as North York General, it is one of Canada's leading community academic hospitals and is affiliated with the University of Toronto. The hospital primarily serves north central Toronto and southern York Region. NYGH is one of the three constituent hospitals of the Peters-Boyd Academy of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
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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 Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (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 Clifford Sifton, 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 John Robarts officially dedicated North York General Hospital. The hospital underwent a major expansion that opened in 2003. Today, North York General encompasses multiple sites: the General site, Branson Ambulatory Care Centre, 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.
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General site
The General site is located at Leslie Street and Sheppard Avenue in north central Toronto. It offers services including inpatient acute care services and a 24-hour full service emergency. Some of the key programs and services include:
Cancer Care
The Cancer Program provides treatment for many types of cancers, including breast, colon, prostate, gynecological and urinary.
Emergency Care
The Charlotte & Lewis Steinberg Emergency at the General site is a full-service emergency. The hospital emergency department had 114,384 visits in 2017-18.
Genetics
The Genetics Program is one of Ontario's largest, full service regional genetics centres. It offers assessment diagnosis and counselling for patients as well as laboratory testing. Services are offered for: Prenatal, General Clinical Genetics, Cancer Genetics and Huntington Disease.
Family and Community Medicine
North York General's Family and Community Medicine Program had 196 active physicians in 2017-18.
Maternal, Newborn and Paediatric Care
The Maternal, Newborn and Paediatric Care Program provides care throughout a woman's pregnancy from prenatal screening through labour and birth, to the postpartum experience. NYGH offers a wide range of medical and mental health services for newborns to 18 years. Each year, over 5,000 babies are born at NYGH and over 2,000 children are cared for at the hospital.
Diagnostic Imaging
The hospital offers a wide variety of medical imaging and cardio-respiratory services at its General and Branson sites.
Medicine and Elder Care
The Medicine & Elder Care Program covers a wide range of services with a special focus on the care of the elderly. Inpatient units provide care in: Neurology and Stroke; Cardiology; General Internal Medicine; Respiratory and Gastrointestinal; Critical Care Unit; and Acute Care of the Elderly. In addition, a patient unit in the Reactivation Care Centre at 2111 Finch Avenue West, serves NYGH patients who no longer need acute care services, but find themselves waiting for an alternate care facility, such as convalescent and long-term care.
Mental Health
The hospital offers a wide variety of mental health inpatient, partial hospitalization, outpatient and outreach services for people of all ages and their families.
Palliative Care
The Freeman Centre for the Advancement of Palliative Care offers a program to meet the needs of adult patients and their families who are living with cancer.
Surgery
The comprehensive range of surgical services offered includes: cancer surgery, orthopaedic, paediatric, cataract, glaucoma and ocular oncology surgery, as well as expertise in otolaryngology, head and neck (ear, nose and throat), urology, plastic surgery, oral, maxillofacial, general, vascular and thoracic surgery.
- One of the largest cancer care programs in the GTA.
- The largest centre for orthopaedic joint assessment and surgery volumes in the Central LHIN. The Total Joint Assessment Centre (TJAC) is a hospital partnership between orthopaedic surgeons at Markham Stouffville Hospital and North York General to reduce the time patients wait for hip and knee replacement.
- A regional centre for cataract surgery.
- A major centre for paediatric surgery.
Branson Ambulatory Care Centre
The Branson Ambulatory Care Centre is located at Bathurst Street and Finch Avenue West (formerly North York Branson). It opened in 1957 as the Seventh-day Adventist Hospital. It is named for Mr. William Henry Branson, an Adventist missionary and President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. 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.[4] In May 2018, the hospital announced two new locations would replace the Branson Ambulatory Care Centre.
The Branson Ambulatory Care Centre offers a number of outpatient services that include:
Gale and Graham Wright Prostate Centre
In collaboration with the Odette Cancer Centre at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, the Gale and Graham Wright Prostate Centre provides an interdisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment based on surgical, radiation, chemotherapy treatments and clinical trials.
Cataract High Volume Centre
This regional centre for cataract surgery.
Diabetes Centre
The Diabetes Centre has two centres to meet the needs of patients and families: the Diabetes Education Centre and the Centre for Complex Diabetes Care.
Medical Imaging
Ultrasound, mammography and bone mineral densitometry are located at the Branson site. The Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP) is a provincial program providing early detection breast cancer screening to women.
Mental Health
A number of mental health services for children, adolescents and adults are located at the Branson Ambulatory Care Centre.
Seniors' Health 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 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.
Reactivation Care Centre
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
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External links
- North York General Hospital website
- Reactivation Care Centre: A Central LHIN Hospitals Collaborative
- North York General Foundation
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