Centenary Hospital is a hospital in Scarborough , Toronto , Ontario , Canada. It was opened on July 1, 1967, and was named in honour of the 100th anniversary of Canada . Since 2016, the hospital is operated by the Scarborough Health Network .
8-622: The hospital opened on July 1, 1967, as Scarborough Centenary Hospital and was the second hospital in the township of Scarborough, after the Scarborough General Hospital . Expansions were constructed in 1986 and 1991, when it became known as Centenary Health Centre. The hospital merged with the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital in 1998 to create the Rouge Valley Health System . Under the new network,
16-569: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Scarborough General Hospital (Toronto) The Scarborough General Hospital is a major teaching hospital in Toronto , Ontario , Canada that is the largest and oldest hospital in Scarborough . Located northwest of the intersection of McCowan Road and Lawrence Avenue East , the hospital opened in 1956 as the first in the former township of Scarborough. The Scarborough General Hospital
24-430: A more comfortable experience for both patients and technologists. The hospital is also the first in the world to run two key diagnostic imaging systems (Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX 6.3.1 and Cardiovascular 7.7,) on an integrated platform—a major benefit for cardiac patients who can now get faster, more accurate diagnoses and treatment. On December 1, 2016, the campuses of The Scarborough Hospital (General and Birchmount) and
32-605: The Scarborough Health Network plans to reduce the number of hospital sites from three to two by 2031. In the three expansion options, the Centenary Hospital is planned for renovation while in two of the three options, the General and Birchmount hospitals are each considered for shutting down and replacement with a new hospital at a different site. This Canadian hospital–related article is
40-605: The appropriate level of care for specific patients' acuities—Pediatric, Rapid Assessment, Critical Care, Acute Care and Ambulatory Care. The new wing is also home to a 22-bed Critical Care Centre that consolidates patients from the previous Intensive Care Unit, Coronary Care Unit and Acute Medical Unit. A Satellite Diagnostic Imaging department also opened in the West Wing, with the Greater Toronto Area's first Siemens YSIO DR-X-ray units that result in faster images and
48-652: The hospital was officially known as Rouge Valley Centenary. On December 1, 2016, the Rouge Valley Health System dissolved as the campuses of The Scarborough Hospital (General and Birchmount ) and Rouge Valley Centenary merged to form a new administration, tentatively as the Scarborough and Rouge Hospital, and later the Scarborough Health Network in 2018. The Ajax and Pickering campus joined Lakeridge Health . As of 2019,
56-568: The new administration, the hospital campus was officially known as The Scarborough Hospital, General Division, although the former name was still used by locals. In 2009, the Scarborough General Hospital opened a CA$ 72 million Emergency and Critical Care Centre in its new West Wing. The project, which more than doubled the size of the previous emergency department, features new infection control and isolation protocols as well as five care zones that are designed to provide
64-727: Was founded by the Sisters of Misericorde in 1956 as the first hospital in the borough of Scarborough . In 1998, The Salvation Army , who founded the Scarborough Grace Hospital (now known as Birchmount Hospital ), took over administrative duties of the Scarborough General and formed a new hospital network known as The Scarborough Hospital as part of a proposal to the Health Services Restructuring Commission. Under
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