Toronto General Hospital

• by EVOMT
• 2020-05-09

Toronto General Hospital is located in the center of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the eight hospitals that form the medical network of Canadian universities, the largest and most funded medical research institution in Canada, and also the largest transplant center in North America. The hospital is a teaching hospital at the University of Toronto School of Medicine, and has won many "firsts" in medical research and innovation; The hospital's Peter Munk Heart Center is a global leader in open heart surgery and cardiovascular health.

Toronto General Hospital is affiliated with the Canadian University Health Network (UHN), which includes Toronto General Hospital and Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and UHN's Mickner School of Education. UHN's research scope and complexity of its cases provide it with domestic and international resources for discovery, education, and patient care, as well as Canada's largest hospital based research program. Major research areas include cardiology, transplantation, neuroscience, oncology, surgical innovation, infectious diseases, genomic medicine, and rehabilitation medicine.

• The emergency room of the hospital needs to give first aid to 29743 patients every year. It is also a transplant operation center in Ontario. It has expertise in heart and kidney disease, and is also the largest AIDS treatment center in Canada. Serious patients with visceral diseases such as heart, lung, kidney, and liver throughout the country are generally referred here.

Comprehensive ranking and specialist ranking

In 2019, Toronto General Hospital was selected by Newsweek magazine as one of the top ten hospitals in the world. Ranked first in the 2018 Canadian 40 Research Hospitals Ranking, and has been at the top since Research Infosource Inc. began ranking in 2011.

In 2020, Toronto General Hospital (TGH) was ranked as one of the world's best hospitals in the global rankings for the second consecutive year. TGH ranked fourth - up three places from last year's first ranking - again becoming the only Canadian hospital in the top 10.

Hospital characteristics

Toronto General Hospital is the world's leading hospital, having conducted the world's first successful single lung transplant in 1983, followed by the first double lung transplant in 1986. In 1950, the first external cardiac pacemaker was used for open heart resuscitation. In 1922, insulin was developed and used for the first time in the treatment of diabetes in a young patient. Recently, the world's first three organ transplant (lung, liver, and pancreas) was successfully performed in 2015