Michael Garron Hospital


Michael Garron Hospital, formerly Toronto East General Hospital, is a community teaching hospital located at 825 Coxwell Avenue in East York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Overview

During the 2019-2020 fiscal year, the Michael Garron Hospital had nearly 20,000 acute inpatient stays and more than 80,000 emergency visits, 265,000 outpatient visits, and 2,900 baby deliveries. MGH has a total of 388 beds, nearly 2,600 employees, and 470 physicians and midwives on staff. The total operating budget in 2019-2020 was. The hospital provides an extensive range of ambulatory, inpatient, and community-based programs and services.
Accreditation Canada awarded the hospital "Full Accreditation with no recommendations" immediately after its June 2009 survey. Those results placed MGH in the top five percent of hospitals in Canada.
As a community teaching hospital, MGH is affiliated with the University of [Toronto Faculty of Medicine|Faculty of Medicine] at the University of Toronto, the Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto, and other educational institutions.
MGH is a designated Pediatric Centre in south-east Toronto for maternal, newborn and pediatric care; it is also a partner hospital in the Child Health Network of the Greater Toronto area. MGH's Emergency Pediatric area has been formally affiliated with Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children since 2004. The child-centric emergency room opened in 2010 to provide a quiet area, separated from the rest of the ER, with private, glass-doored treatment rooms offering toys and televisions. The staff in this area are all specially trained in pediatrics. This type of ER is almost unique in Toronto. The new facility is partially funded by public sources.
Approximately 3,500 babies are delivered annually at the hospital's Maternal Newborn and Child Health Centre; it provides Level II Maternity and Neonatal Care, and it is a regional pediatric centre of the Child Health Network of Toronto.

History

Michael Garron Hospital began operations in 1929 as Toronto East General Hospital, opening with 110 beds. After this date, a new wing was built approximately once per decade.
Phase I of a 50-year redevelopment project was implemented in April 2007, when Ontario's Ministry of Health and [Long-Term Care (Ontario)|Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care] approved an investment of. This project included expansion and renovation of the Emergency Department, in addition to the Hematology and Oncology Clinic. The new Oncology Clinic opened in September 2008, and the ER opened in 2010.
On December 2, 2015, the main campus of the hospital was renamed to Toronto East Health Network, after a donation from Myron and Berna Garron.

Administration

The hospital's chief of staff is Dr. Sheila Laredo, and its president and CEO is Melanie Kohn.

Services

In August 2019, the hospital opened an Indigenous sweat lodge.

Future

A major redevelopment began in the summer of 2018, and it is expected to be completed by 2023. The first phase of the project is scheduled to be completed in 2021, with a new building on the south-west portion of the campus. The building will be called The Ken and Marilyn Thomson Patient Care Centre, after a gift from Ken and Marilyn's son Peter Thomson. The new eight-storey facility will be fully wheelchair-accessible, and it will include ambulatory care clinics, in-patient beds and family space, in addition to four levels of underground parking. The total cost of the project is, and funding sources include Ontario's Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Michael Garron Hospital, and donors to the Michael Garron Hospital Foundation.