Michael Garron Hospital, Toronto East Health Network

01/02/2026

our Emergency Department offers same-day or next-day appointments for minor injuries like sprains, fractures and small broken bones?

This helps ensure you and your family get the care you need in an easy and convenient way that’s close to home.

Learn more or book an appointment: tehn.ca/MinorInjuryED

12/31/2025

This year marks 10 years since Myron and Berna Garron’s extraordinary gift, a legacy that continues to shape care at MGH every day. 💙

We are honoured to celebrate Michael’s legacy and grateful to the Garron’s for their generosity and lasting impact on our community.

12/30/2025

When F**d Farahani’s father was diagnosed with advanced cancer, Dr. Sayf Gazala helped transform despair into hope. When other specialists who claimed the cancer was uncurable, Dr. Gazala, Thoracic Surgeon said it was possible to treat.

“I almost couldn’t process the words. I repeated them in Farsi to ensure my father and mother both understood the news,” F**d says.

This is the kind of care that Michael Garron Hospital provides every day to patients in East Toronto and its surrounding areas. Care that never gives up, even when the odds seem impossible.

Read F**d’s full story here: https://bit.ly/4954Wft

12/30/2025

This holiday season, our Paediatrics Department was filled with extra warmth and joy thanks to the generosity of our community. 💚

From creative moments to comforting surprises, these thoughtful gifts helped brighten the days of our youngest patients and their families during the holidays. ✨

Thank you to our community members and donors for your kindness and continued support of MGH this season.

Here’s a look at some of the gifts that were shared with us:

🧸 Toy donations supporting our Child Life Specialists, who help bring joy and comfort to children during their hospital stay

📚 Books for Bravery donated through Starlight Canada, encouraging young readers that literacy is fun

🎨 Holiday crafts with volunteers from Crafting for a Cure

💃 A special visit from ballerinas through Crafting for a Cure’s Smiles for All program, bringing joy to children in hospital

12/29/2025

This holiday season, teams across MGH spread warmth and support through local initiatives. Here are just a few ways our teams have been giving back:

🎵 Members of our Emerging Leaders Program supported our Staff in Need Fund by hosting a festive bake sale and fun music gram service.

👚 MGH volunteers collected and organized clothing donations for patients in the Stavro Emergency Department who don’t have adequate clothing to leave the hospital in. Pictured is Bobbie, who has championed this program for over 20 years.

❤️ The Organizational Development Team assembled and donated Love Boxes to help make the holidays brighter for our toddler and teen patients.

Thank you to all those who took part in supporting these initiatives!

12/23/2025

If you find yourself needing care during the holidays, check out the places below:

👉 For an urgent, non-life-threatening health issue, consider one of these resources in East Toronto: tehn.ca/PlacesToGetCare.

👉 For an urgent, potentially life-threatening health issue, our Emergency Department remains open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

We appreciate your kindness and patience as our team does their best to provide urgent care for patients as safely and quickly as possible.

12/22/2025

MGH’s Psychiatric Emergency Zone (PEZ) is a new model that will improve mental health and substance use care for patients in the Stavro Emergency Department (ED).

Across Toronto, demand for psychiatric care is at an all-time high, and many patients with significant complexities must wait in emergency departments before being admitted.

The PEZ has:

🥼 Increased staffing and specialized care
🫶 New capacity to accommodate children and youth
⬆️ Improved patient flow
🏥 Enhanced spaces for patients and staff

Thank you to Ontario Hospital Association for sharing this important service!

With psychiatric and substance-use needs at an all-time high across Toronto and more patients waiting in emergency departments for specialized care, Michael Garron Hospital, Toronto East Health Network has opened its new Psychiatric Emergency Zone (PEZ).

Some of the key improvements in the new PEZ care model include increased staffing and specialized care, capacity to accommodate children and youth, improved patient flow through coordinated efforts, and enhanced spaces for patients and staff.

By creating a safer, more responsive environment for people in crisis, this model strengthens mental health and substance-use care within the Stavro Emergency Department and ensures patients receive the tailored, compassionate support they need when it matters most. Learn more: https://ow.ly/PSfZ50XH8eK

12/22/2025

Winter is a time for fun, family and friends, but it’s also time for bacteria and viruses. 🦠

Check out these top tips from Victoria Serapion, Infection Prevention Practitioner at MGH, to help you and your loved ones stay safe and healthy this winter season! ❄️

12/19/2025

Every year, hospitals plan on respiratory season bringing a surge in patient volumes. How does MGH plan to continue to provide high-quality, patient-centred care as the volume of patients increases?

Part of the plan is to scale the frontline: accelerate the hiring of nurses and ensure new hires can be onboarded, trained and ready to practice safely and confidently within tight timelines.

“It’s a testament to the culture of teamwork at MGH to see how quickly teams mobilized towards helping our nurses onboard. Within two weeks, MGH was able to build our capacity to onboard up to 80 nurses a month,” says Wendy Cheuk, Director of Nursing, Interprofessional Practice & Education, Patient Experience, Spiritual Health, Academic Affairs & Ethics.

👉 Learn more about how MGH adapted and scaled up our nursing onboarding program in our Newsroom: https://bit.ly/4oZxNbf

12/18/2025

This week MGH staff, physicians, volunteers and learners took home a ready-to-eat holiday appreciation meal!

We hope everyone enjoyed the prepared meal with loved ones and spent time resting and recharging. Thank you for all that you do. 💚

Thank you to Berna and Myron Garron & Doug Farley for your generous support in making this holiday meal possible.

12/18/2025

We have a lot to be proud of at MGH, and this holiday season, we’re saying thanks and celebrating our 2025 achievements and the people that made them. 🫶

Many of our successes this year were made possible by you – our dedicated teams, donors, partners and community.

In addition to supporting our hospital’s areas of greatest need and emerging opportunities, you helped us:

✅ Bring the benefits of robotic-assisted surgery to more patients with the purchase of a new da Vinci Surgical System

✅ Fund a new scribe tool in our Stavro Emergency Department (ED) that helps physicians save time so they can see more patients (Fun fact: some of these donors were also ED physicians!)

✅ Purchase a new CT Scanner which will help reduce wait times and catch diseases earlier – our new machine arrives early 2026

✅ Enable expansion of our Cedric E. Ritchie Cath Lab, building capacity to diagnose and treat more heart patients

💝 Read more about our 2025 achievements: https://bit.ly/44XQ3KG