Toronto General - University Health Network

The Loyal and Patriotic Society of Upper Canada established a trust fund in 1819 to assist the construction and upkeep of a hospital in the provincial capital, the Town of York. Toronto General Hospital (TGH) is one of Toronto's oldest hospitals, dating back to 1819. The General Hospital of the Town of York, located at Simcoe and King Streets, began construction in 1820 and opened to patients in June 1829. In 1856, it extended to Gerrard and Sumach, and subsequently to College Street in 1913 as Toronto General.

TGH was the first hospital in the world to execute a successful single lung transplant in 1983, and the first to perform a double-lung transplant in 1986. The first external heart pacemaker was deployed in open-heart resuscitation in 1950. In 1922, insulin was produced and tested on a young patient at TGH for the first time in the treatment of diabetes.

The hospital's emergency department currently treats about 28,065 people each year, and it also contains Ontario's largest transplantation facility, conducting heart, lung, kidney, liver, pancreas, and small intestine transplants for patients referred from throughout the country.

The hospital acts as a teaching hospital for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. TGH was named the 4th greatest hospital in the world and the first in Canada by Newsweek in 2021. For the ninth year in a row, Research Infosource placed the hospital first in Canada in terms of research.

• Foundation: 1812
• Country: Canada
• City: Toronto, Ontario
• Hospital beds: 727
• Website: www.uhn.ca/