Toronto East General Hospital

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Name = Toronto East General Hospital
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Caption = Toronto East General Hospital
Coxwell Avenue entrance

Location = East York,
Region = Toronto
State = Ontario
Country = Canada
HealthCare = Medicare
Type = Teaching
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Emergency = Yes (acute, subacute and ambulatory)
Affiliation= University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Beds = 470
Founded = 1929
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Website = http://www.tegh.on.ca
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Toronto East General Hospital is a teaching hospital located at 825 Coxwell Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, in the former borough of East York.

The hospital has 382 acute care beds, as well as 13 rehabilitation and 75 complex continuing care beds. In 2006/07, the hospital had over 60,000 emergency room visits and more than 19,000 in-patient admissions. [cite web |url=http://www.tegh.on.ca/bins/content_page.asp?cid=8-60&lang=1 |title=TEGH Facts and Figures |author=Toronto East General Hospital|accessdate=2007-09-23]

Approximately 3,500 babies were delivered during this period at the hospital's Maternal Newborn and Child Health Centre, which provides Level II Maternity and Neonatal Care and is a regional paediatric centre of the Child Health Network of Toronto. [cite web |url=http://www.tegh.on.ca/bins/content_page.asp?cid=3-22&lang=1 |title=Maternal Newborn and Child Health|author=Toronto East General Hospital |accessdate=2007-09-23]

The hospital's chief of staff is Dr. Alfio Meschino and its president and CEO is Rob Devitt. [cite web |url=http://www.tegh.on.ca/bins/content_page.asp?cid=8-57&lang=1 |title=About Us: Executive Team |author=Toronto East General Hospital|accessdate=2007-09-23]

Services

* Ambulatory and Community Services
* Complex Continuing Care and Short-Term Rehabilitation
* Emergency
* Maternal/Newborn/Child
* Medicine
* Mental Health
* Pharmacy
* Surgery
* Diagnostic Imaging
* Laboratory Medicine [cite web |url=http://www.tegh.on.ca/bins/content_page.asp?cid=8-61&lang=1|author=Toronto East General Hospital |title=TEGH Fast Fact Sheet |accessdate=2007-09-23]

ee also

* Joseph Henry Harris

References