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North York General Hospital (NYGH) in the former city of North York in Toronto, Ontario offers acute care, ambulatory and long-term services at three sites: General site, Branson Ambulatory Care Centre and Seniors' Health Centre. Known as North York General, it is one of the leading community academic hospitals in Canada, affiliated with the University of Toronto. It is one of the three constituent hospitals of the Peters-Boyd Academy of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. The hospital has one of the busiest emergency departments in Canada with over 107,000 visits in 2015-16.
Contents
- North york general hospital funding announcement
- History
- Cancer Care
- Child and Teen Paediatrics
- Emergency Care
- Genetics
- Family Community Medicine
- Maternal Newborn Care
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Medicine Elder Care
- Mental Health
- Surgery
- Branson Ambulatory Care Centre
- Urgent Care Centre
- Total Joint Assessment Centre TJAC
- Gale and Graham Wright Prostate Centre
- Cataract High Volume Centre
- Diabetes Centre
- Medical Imaging
- Seniors Health Centre
- References
North york general hospital funding announcement
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 three sites: the General site, Branson Ambulatory Care Centre and Seniors' Health Centre. On March 1, 2017, North York General Hospital President and CEO Tim Rutledge 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.
The General site is located at Leslie Street and Sheppard Avenue in north central Toronto. It offers a full range of 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 is one of the largest in the Greater Toronto Area and provides treatment for many types of cancers, including breast, colon, prostate, gynecological and urinary.
Child and Teen (Paediatrics)
The hospital cares for over 2,000 children every year and offers a wide range of medical and mental health services for newborns to 18 years. [http://www.nygh.on.ca/Default.aspx?cid=979&lang=1
Emergency Care
The Charlotte & Lewis Steinberg Emergency at the General site is a full-service emergency.
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 & Community Medicine
North York General's Family and Community Medicine Program has one of the largest complements of family physicians in a Canadian hospital, with 212 active physicians in 2015-16. They provide care from their private practices in north central Toronto and southern York Region. The North York Family Health Team helps give the community better access to basic primary health care services. The team is composed of physicians, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, social workers, mental health workers and other allied health professionals, depending on the needs of patients and their families.
Maternal Newborn Care
The Maternal Newborn Program provides care throughout a woman's pregnancy from prenatal screening through labour and birth, to the postpartum experience. The hospital’s obstetrical centre is one of the largest single site centres in Ontario and each year celebrates the birth of over 5,600 babies.
Diagnostic Imaging
The hospital offers a wide variety of medical imaging and cardio-respiratory services at its General and Branson sites.
Medicine & 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; Progressive care for transition to an alternate level of care facility; Critical Care Unit; and Acute Care of the Elderly. Clinics support the key areas of inpatient work: Heart Function Clinic/Pacemaker Clinic; Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinic; Supportive Cardiology Clinic; Diabetes Education Centre; Stroke Prevention Clinic; Medical Surgical Clinic; and Specialized Geriatric clinics.
Mental Health
The hospital offers a wide range of mental health services for individuals of all ages. Services at the General site include: Inpatient Care – Adult, Geriatric, Child & Adolescent; Partial Hospitalization Program; Outpatient Services; Geriatric Psychiatry Program (GPP); Child and Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health; Women's Clinic; Consultation Liaison Service to Medical/Surgical/Oncology/Paediatric. Mental health services are also offered at the Branson Ambulatory Care Centre.
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.
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 President and CEO Tim Rutledge 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.
The Branson Ambulatory Care Centre offers a number of outpatient services that include:
Urgent Care Centre
The UCC is designed specifically to manage any urgent illness or injury that is not life-threatening (broken bones, cuts,) quickly and efficiently. NOTE: The Urgent Care Centre will be closing as of June 1, 2017.
Total Joint Assessment Centre (TJAC)
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.
Gale and Graham Wright Prostate Centre
The first prostate centre in Ontario to offer timely diagnosis, information, expertise and resources in a community hospital setting. 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 the latest surgical, radiation, chemotherapy treatments and clinical trials.
Cataract High Volume Centre
This regional centre for cataract surgery has one of the highest annual volumes of surgeries in Ontario.
Diabetes Centre
The Diabetes Centre has two unique centres to meet the needs of patients and families: the Diabetes Education Centre and the Centre for Complex Diabetes Care.
Medical Imaging
A wide variety of medical imaging services are located at the Branson site: General Radiology; Ultrasound; Mammography and Bone Mineral Densitometry. The Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP) is a provincial program providing high quality early detection breast cancer screening to women.
Mental Health
A number of mental health services are located at Branson including: Addiction Program] – Adult and Transitional Age Youth; Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders Program; Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT); Child and Adolescent Outpatient Mental Health and Day Hospital; Partial Hospitalization Program; Adult Outpatient Mental Health; Outpatient Groups; Mental Health and Justice Treatment and Support Services; Primary Care Reversed Shared Care Services; and the Participants’ Council – Peer Support.
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.
Some of the clinics include: Osteoporosis & Fracture Prevention Clinic; Memory Clinic; Parkinson’s Education and Exercise Program; Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSM); and Geriatric Medicine and Psychiatry Outpatient Clinics.