North York General Hospital

North York General Hospital (NYGH)
Geography
Location	4001 Leslie Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada M2K 1E1
Organisation
Care system	Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP)
Hospital type	Community academic hospital
Affiliated university	University of Toronto
Services
Emergency department	Yes (acute, subacute and ambulatory care)
Beds	419 acute care beds and 192 long-term care beds
History
Founded	1968
Links
Website	http://www.nygh.on.ca/

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.

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.

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