Rouge Valley Health System ( RVHS ) was a hospital network in the province of Ontario , Canada. It was created in 1998 through the merger of Centenary Health Centre in Toronto and the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital in Ajax , serving the communities of Scarborough , Pickering , Ajax and Whitby . It was part of the Central-East Local Health Integration Network as mandated by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care . The two hospitals were known as the Rouge Valley Centenary and Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering, respectively.
6-587: In 2016, Rouge Valley Health Network was defunct after Rouge Valley Centenary partnered with The Scarborough Hospital to form the Scarborough Health Network while Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering joined Lakeridge Health . This article about a medical organization or association is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Toronto -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Scarborough Hospital Scarborough Health Network ( SHN )
12-668: Is a hospital network in Scarborough , Toronto , Ontario , Canada. It operates the Scarborough General , Centenary , and Birchmount hospitals. The three are major community health hospitals with teaching affiliations to the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine . In 1998, The Salvation Army merged the operations of Scarborough General and Scarborough Grace (now Birchmount) hospitals under its subsidiary The Scarborough Hospital, while Centenary Hospital
18-735: Is planned for renovation while both the General and Birchmount hospitals are alternatively considered for shutdown as a new hospital will be built at a different site in Scarborough. A local campaign known as Save the Grace, headed by Toronto city councillor Jim Karygiannis , appeals to the Government of Ontario to save the Birchmount Hospital. In 2023, SHN will begin construction on the new Bridletowne Neighbourhood Centre in
24-564: The Bridletowne community at Warden and Finch Avenues , a project in collaboration between the YMCA of Greater Toronto and United Way Greater Toronto. Apart from facilities to be put up by YMCA and United Way, this structure will feature SHN’s Dialysis and Chronic Disease Clinics, expanding their hemodialysis and chronic kidney disease programs in the network. Initially pledged by the former Liberal - led government of Ontario in 2017, this
30-568: The Scarborough and Rouge Hospital (SRH), until 2018 when it was officially renamed the Scarborough Health Network. On January 24, 2019, the Scarborough Health Network approved the closure of pediatrics and obstetrics services at the Birchmount Hospital. As of 2019, the hospital network plans to reduce the number of hospital sites from three to two by 2031. In the three expansion options, the Centenary Hospital
36-481: Was under the Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS). A failed merger was done between the two hospital networks in 2014. This was until the then Ontario Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins ordered the dissolution of RVHS, and transferred Centenary Hospital's administration to The Scarborough Hospital, creating the merger by December 1, 2016. The new network of the three hospitals was tentatively named
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