Toronto General Hospital (TGH) is the main teaching hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and the flagship campus of the University Health Network (UHN). It is located in the Discovery District of downtown Toronto on a stretch of University Avenue known as “Hospital Row”.
It is directly north of the Hospital for Sick Children, across Gerrard Street West and east of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Mount Sinai Hospital. The hospital serves as a teaching hospital for the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine.
HISTORY
- The hospital began as a small shed in the old town and was used as a British army hospital during the War of 1812, after which it was established as a permanent institution – York General Hospital – in 1829 on John and King Street (now the Bell Lightbox).
- In 1855, a new home for the hospital was built on the north side of Gerrard Street, east of Parliament, to the design of architect William Hay.
- In 1913 the hospital moved to College Street , not far from its present location, and in the years that followed it expanded and modernized.
- The 1913 building, formerly called College, was eventually sold by the hospital to become home to the MaRS Discovery District after the new wing for TGH was completed and opened in 2002.
Toronto General Hospital (TGH) is the largest and most funded research organization in the country and the largest transplant center in North America.
As the University of Toronto’s teaching hospital, the facility conducted a number of transplant studies in 2015, including three organ transplants (lung, liver and pancreas). TGH is home to the Peter Munk Cardiology Centre (named after the founder of Canadian mining company Barrick Gold, who donated more than $175 million), a world leader in open heart and cardiovascular surgery.
