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The Toronto Hospital ephemera collection is an assembly of material in various formats that have been accumulated by the UHN Archives from a variety of disparate sources including, but not limited to, family members of former staff or students, other repositories, or anonymous donations. Collection consists of textual records. Material in the collection relates to the history of The Toronto Hospital. Material is arranged by accession. No particular order has been imposed by the Archivist.

Collection consists of a photocopy of the Act to amalgamate TGH with TWH, and various hospital newsletters, guidelines, formularies and reports.

The fonds includes four series of records from the Office of the President:

9.1 Miscellaneous records
9.2 Correspondence and administration
9.3 Board of Trustees correspondence
9.4. Audit reports

Fonds includes eight series of minutes:

8.1 TGH/TTH Board of Trustees minutes
8.2 Toronto Western Hospital Board of Trustees Minutes
8.3 Toronto Western Hospital Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Members
8.4 Audit Committee minutes
8.5 Clinical Quality Assurance Committee minutes
8.6 Finance Committee minutes
8.7. Human Resources Committee minutes
8.8 Planning Committee minutes

Fonds consists of the bound minutes of the Medical Advisory Committees (or Boards) for the Toronto Western Hospital, the Toronto General Hospital, and later The Toronto Hospital. Minutes include discussions of by-laws, clinical policies, salaries, credentialing, and building/renovation projects; lists of appointments to staff and interns; sub-committee reports; and from time to time discussion of a patient and/or disciplinary action on staff.

The fonds includes five series:

7.1 Medical Advisory Committee Minutes / Toronto Western Hospital
7.2 Medical Advisory Board Minutes / Toronto General Hospital
7.3 Medical Advisory Committee Minutes / Toronto Hospital
7.4 Medical Advisory Board Minutes / Toronto Hospital
7.5 Ambulatory Care Committee Minutes

Fonds consists of one series:

6.1 Office of the Surgeon-in-Chief records

Fonds consists of records of The Toronto Hospital’s Finance and Audit Committees from the office of Vice-President, Finance, D. Arsenault. Some are her own personal copies with her handwritten notations. Fonds also includes background documents regarding the TGH-TWH merger from the office of Vice-President, Finance, Mr. J. Elliott, financial statements from the Toronto General Hospital, and patient admission ledgers from the Toronto Western Hospital. Fonds includes five series:

5.1 Finance Committee minutes
5.2 Audit Committee minutes
5.3 TGH-TWH Merger records
5.4 Financial statements
5.5 Patient admission ledgers

The fonds consists of by-laws and agreements maintained by Medical/Legal Affairs. The fonds includes two series:

4.1 Hospital By-Laws
4.2 Corporate Agreements

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by The Toronto Hospital Department of Public Affairs and Communications. The fonds includes 12 series:

2.1 The Toronto Hospital annual reports
2.2 Caring
2.3 Correspondence
2.4 Photographs
2.5 News Releases
2.6 Medical Staff Bulletins
2.7 Canadian Museum of Health and Medicine
2.8 Archives and Historical Committee
2.9 Miscellaneous publications and minutes
2.10 Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital
2.11 Western Hours
2.12 Scrapbooks

The fonds includes one series:

13.1 Correspondence & Administration

Fonds consists of minutes from various strategic planning committees and outgoing correspondence from Michael J. McCartney, Corporate Director of Strategic Planning. The minutes were accumulated by McCartney who served on many of the planning committees.

The fonds includes two series:

12.1 Planning Committees
12.2 Correspondence

The fonds includes one series:

11.1 Correspondence & Administration

The fonds includes one series of minutes:

10.1 Joint Hospital/University Relations Committee Minutes

The record group includes the following fonds:

UHN 1 Policy and Codes Development fonds
UHN 2 Board of Directors fonds
UHN 3 Public Affairs & Communications fonds
UHN 4 Nutrition Services fonds
UHN 5 Radiation Medicine Program fonds
UHN 6 Research fonds
UHN 7 Health Records Services fonds
UHN 8 [undesignated]
UHN 9 Office of the President and Chief Executive Officer fonds
UHN 10 Medical Affairs fonds

The record group includes 14 fonds:
TH 1. Nursing Education and Research Department fonds
TH 2. Department of Public Affairs and Communications fonds
TH 3. Status of Women Committee fonds
TH 4. Medical/Legal Affairs fonds
TH 5. Finance Directorate fonds
TH 6. Surgical Directorate fonds
TH 7. Medical Advisory Committee fonds
TH 8. Board of Trustees fonds
TH 9. Office of the President fonds
TH 10. Joint Hospital/University Relations Committee fonds
TH 11. Office of the Chief Operating Officer fonds
TH 12. Department of Strategic Planning fonds
TH 13. Office of the Executive Vice-President fonds
TH 14. The Toronto Hospital Auxiliary fonds

Series consists of bound minutes and documents accumulated by the Office of the President. Much of the material relates to the Toronto General Hospital. File 9.1.4 includes a banking by-law from October 16, 1989.

Series consists of the draft minutes, agendas, correspondence, and reports of the TTH Board of Trustees Planning Committee. File 8.8.3 includes a report titled “Linking the Senior Management Team to the Hospital Mission: Inter-Related Roles and Responsibilities, April 1, 1993” which contains an organizational chart dated April 1, 1993. File 8.8.4 consists of reports from the Priority Programs Directorate, the Surgical Directorate, and the Professional/Diagnostics Services Directorate. The official minutes for these years have not been transferred to the Archives.

Series consists of the draft minutes, agendas, correspondence, and reports of TTH Board of Trustees Human Resources Committee. File 8.7.17 includes a draft organizational chart of the hospital dated December 7, 1992. The official minutes for these years have not been transferred to the Archives.

Series consists of the draft minutes, agendas, correspondence, and reports of the TTH Board of Trustees Finance Committee. The official minutes for these years have not been transferred to the Archives. Some of the files also contain minutes from the Fiscal Advisory Committee which was created in 1990 to make recommendations to the Board with respect to the operation, use, and staffing of the hospital.

File 8.6.8 includes minutes from TWH Fine Arts Committee dated June 21, 1991. File 8.6.18 includes minutes from the Fiscal Advisory Committee dated May 1992. File 8.6.20 includes minutes from the Fiscal Advisory Committee dated July 1992. File 8.6.33 includes minute from the Fiscal Advisory Committee dated January 1994.

Series consists of the official minutes of the TTH Board of Trustees Clinical Quality Assurance Committee as well as quality management reports presented to the Committee from various TTH departments.

The files were originally stored by year in 3 separate binders. Files are arranged chronologically as per originally binders. Original binder names have been included as headings within the file list.

File 8.5.2 includes a quality management report from the Surgical Directorate, October 1993. File 8.5.3 includes a quality management presentation from the Department of Radiology. File 8.5.4 includes a quality improvement report from the Neurological Centre. File 8.5.5 includes a quality improvement report from the Multi-Organ Transplant Program. File 8.5.7 includes a copy of a quality improvement presentation from the Oncology Program dated May 31, 1994. File 8.5.8 includes a quality improvement report from the Cardiac Centre dated 1994. File 8.5.10 includes a TTH quality improvement status report dated August 1994. File 8.5.11 includes a quality improvement presentation from the Department of Psychology. File 8.5.12 includes a quality report from the Occupational Therapy Department. File 8.5.16 includes a quality report from the Department of Speech-Language Pathology. File 8.5.17 includes a quality report from the Social Work Department. File 8.5.20 includes a quality report from the Department of Clinical Biochemistry. File 8.5.21 includes quality improvement presentations from the Departments of Microbiology and Medical Imaging. File 8.5.22 includes a quality improvement report from the Department of Multi-Organ Transplant. File 8.5.24 includes a quality survey report from the Volunteer Resources Department dated October 1996.

Series consists of the draft minutes, agendas, correspondence, and reports of the TTH Board of Trustees Audit Committee from 1989 to 1994. The official minutes for these years have not been transferred to the Archives. File 8.4.5 includes a report from the Office of the Provincial Auditor for The Toronto Hospital - Toronto General Division, 1990-1991. File 8.4.14 includes a report from the Internal Audit Department entitled “Strategic Directions, 1993/94-1995/96.” File 8.4.17 includes 1994 audit reports from the Audit Department; management responses to the audit report and an audit plan and report for 1994.