North York General Hospital

North York General Hospital (NYGH) is one of Toronto's many hospitals and serves the area of north central Toronto (formerly North York). The current Chief of Medicine is Dr. David Baron. It is also a teaching hospital for the University of Toronto.

Main site
The main site is at Leslie Street and Sheppard Avenue was opened in 1968 by the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE), Missionary Health Institute and Canadian Mothercraft Society. Some 3,000 volunteers collected $3.2 million of the $8.6 million cost of the new hospital.

The hospital underwent an expansion in the 2003 and work is now completed with additional bed spaces.

NYG is a primary multi-care facility (open 24 hours) in the North York area, a teaching hospital and famous for neo-natal care. It was one of a few Toronto area hospitals that had SARS cases.

Secondary site
The secondary site at Bathurst Street and Finch Avenue West (formerly North York Branson). It opened in 1957 as the Seventh-day Adventist Hospital and completed with donations from Atkinson Foundation, community contributions ($16,000) and Adventist members from Loma Linda, California. It is named for Mr. William Henry Branson, an Adventist missionary and President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. In 1997 it became part of the NYG (as NYG-Branson Division) after restructuring by the Conservative provincial government of Mike Harris.