General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics

Patients often have complex medical conditions and need an extensive level of care with admission to hospital on our General Internal Medicine inpatient wards. Patients may need a diagnosis for a challenging set of symptoms, or have multiple complex medical conditions that involve more than one organ. They may require coordinated care with multiple physicians and healthcare team members such as social workers, occupational and physical therapists.

The typical internal medicine patient has 4-5 chronic medical conditions and is taking upwards of 10+ medications.

 

Internal Medicine patients are often frail, elderly and economically disadvantaged, and a significant percentage do not speak English.

Our Internal Medicine patient wards are the largest inpatient units UHN and are located at both Toronto General Hospital (~100 beds) and Toronto Western Hospital sites (~100 beds). Together, the Internal Medicine service is responsible for over 50 per cent of all patients hospitalized at UHN, including those who come through our two Emergency Departments.

Embedded within these wards are our Clinical Teaching Units, where our Faculty physicians provide foundational training to medical students and resident education for our inpatients. We also have our Acute Inpatient Medicine (AIM) Service, where patients are cared for directly by physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners with specific expertise in hospital medicine.

Our division also provides on-call specialty consult advice to other programs in the hospital with our Medical Consults Service and our Geriatrics Consult Service – where our team provides medical and geriatric expertise to patients admitted to other wards in the hospital, including programs such as surgical services, psychiatry and oncology.

Contact our Inpatient Wards

Toronto General Hospital General Internal Medicine Inpatient Unit

13 Eaton South | Phone: 416 340 4800 ext. 3860
14 Eaton South | Phone: 416 340 4800 ext. 4023

Toronto Western Hospital General Internal Medicine Inpatient Unit

Fell Pavilion | Phone: 416 603 5797
4B Fell Pavilion | Phone: 416 603 5740
8A Fell Pavilion | Phone: 416 603 5194
8B Fell | Phone: 416 603 5167