North York General Hospital

North York General Hospital
	North York General Hospital from the northwest (Leslie and Sheppard)
Geography
Location	North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Organization
Care system	Public Medicare (Canada) (OHIP)
Hospital type	General
Services
Emergency department	Yes (acute, subacute and ambulatory care)
Beds	434
History
Founded	1968
Links
Website	home page
Lists	Hospitals in Canada

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North York General Hospital (NYGH) is one of Toronto's many hospitals and serves the area of north central Toronto (formerly North York). The current Chief of Medicine is Dr. David Baron. It is also a community hospital that is partnered with the University of Toronto.

[edit] Main site

The main site is at Leslie Street and Sheppard Avenue was opened in 1968 by the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE), Missionary Health Institute and Canadian Mothercraft Society. Some 3,000 volunteers collected $3.2 million of the $8.6 million cost of the new hospital.

The hospital underwent an expansion in the 2003 and work is now completed with additional bed spaces.

North York General is a primary multi-care facility (open 24 hours) in the North York area, a teaching hospital and famous for neo-natal care. It was one of a few Toronto area hospitals that had SARS cases.

North York General Hospital from the southwest parking lot.

[edit] Secondary site

The secondary site is located at Bathurst Street and Finch Avenue West (formerly North York Branson). It opened in 1957 as the Seventh-day Adventist Hospital and completed with donations from Atkinson Foundation, community contributions ($16,000) and Adventist members from Loma Linda, California. 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 the NYG (as NYG-Branson Division) after restructuring by the Conservative provincial government of Mike Harris.