About us
 Welcome to Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH) proudly serving the community of South East Toronto since 1929, when it opened its doors as a 110-bed general hospital. Over the past 78 years TEGH has continually renewed its commitment to the community it serves. Today TEGH is a large, urban, full-service community teaching hospital, providing comprehensive care to a diverse population of 400,000, representing over 45 cultural and linguistic group.
We provide a full range of programs and services for patients from our main location at 825 Coxwell Avenue, including:
- Ambulatory (Outpatient) and Community Services
- Complex Continuing Care and Rehabilitation
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Emergency Laboratory Medicine
- Maternal/Newborn/Child
- Medicine
- Mental Health
- Surgery
TEGH also provides services in the community:
- The Family Health Centre at 840 Coxwell Avenue, part of the South East Toronto Family Health Team and the Family Medicine Teaching program affiliated with the University of Toronto;
- Mental Health Of Community Outreach Services and the Withdrawal Management Centre, both located on Danforth Avenue;
TEGH is a 500-bed facility comprised of acute care, rehabilitation and complex continuing care beds. Annually we admit 20,000 acute care inpatients, deliver 3,500 babies, have 60,000 emergency visits and provide service to over 225,000 outpatients. This is accomplished with the help of 2,500 employees, 400 physicians and over 500 adult and student volunteers.
In addition to the services offered as a full service general hospital, TEGH has many specialty programs and services including: The only Progressive Weaning Centre in Ontario, which was declared a Centre of Excellence in the Province's Long-Term Ventilation Strategy in September 2007. The regional thoracic surgery program, in partnership with Sunnybrook, that provices thoracic surgery service delivery for patients in the North and South East Toronto communities. The regional Paediatric Centre for South East Toronto providing the high standards of care established by the Child Health Network. Our Special Care Level 2 Nursery is specifically designed to care for fragile babies who require special care and monitoring.
TEGH provides an environment welcoming to patients, families and visitors. You can learn about the many services, programs and supports for patients and visitors that TEGH has in place by browsing the Patients & Visitors and Programs & Services sections of this website.
TEGH approved a new Strategic Plan 2008-2011 which will help us to continue to provide high quality programs and services to patients and their families with care and compassion.
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