Scarborough Health Network

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| Logo = Scarborough_Health_Network_logo,_May_2019.png

| Location = Scarborough

| Region = Toronto

| State = Ontario

| Country = Canada

| HealthCare = Medicare

| Type = Community

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| Emergency = Yes

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| Founded = 1998
2016 (current form)

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| Website = http://www.shn.ca

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Scarborough Health Network (SHN) 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.facmed.utoronto.ca/hospitals/communityhospitals.htm |title=Community-Affiliated Hospitals and Sites |website=University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine |publisher=University of Toronto |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726195929/http://www.facmed.utoronto.ca/hospitals/communityhospitals.htm |archive-date=26 July 2010 |url-status=dead |access-date=17 March 2010 |quote=Nineteen hospitals and healthcare sites in southern Ontario are community affiliates of the University of Toronto (U of T). }}

History

=Early years=

File:The Scarborough Hospital pre-merger logo.png

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 was under the Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS).

=Merger=

A failed merger was done between the two hospital networks in 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://www.toronto.com/news/provincial-lack-of-enthusiasm-played-role-in-hospital-board-s-rejecting-merger/article_1c805c59-6680-5f74-9319-3d02b3c9f646.html?|title=Provincial “lack of enthusiasm” played role in hospital board’s rejecting merger|date = 27 March 2014|first=Mike|last=Adler|website=toronto.com|access-date=30 July 2023}} 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 the Scarborough and Rouge Hospital (SRH),{{Cite web|url=https://www.toronto.com/life/wellness/one-year-after-merger-scarborough-and-rouge-hospital-plans-its-future/article_ea7bbed3-1d45-5b20-8306-b0eeb0a2aeaa.html?|title = One year after merger, Scarborough and Rouge Hospital plans its future|date = 26 December 2017 |first=Mike|last=Adler|website=toronto.com|access-date=19 June 2023}} until 2018 when it was officially renamed the Scarborough Health Network.{{Cite web|url=https://www.toronto.com/opinion-story/9023897-scarborough-s-hospital-changing-name-to-scarborough-health-network/|title = Opinion | Scarborough's hospital changing name to Scarborough Health Network|date = 11 November 2018|website=toronto.com|access-date=30 July 2023}}

=As SHN=

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 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.toronto.com/news-story/9196198-timeline-a-history-of-scarborough-health-network-s-birchmount-campus/|title = TIMELINE: A history of Scarborough Health Network's Birchmount campus|date = 28 February 2019}}

In 2023, SHN will begin construction on the new Bridletowne Neighbourhood Centre in 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,{{Cite web|url=https://www.toronto.com/life/wellness/dr-eric-hoskins-pledges-liberal-government-support-to-bridletowne-hub/article_7d3d5770-a788-50ec-a47d-6a54730737ee.html?|title = Dr. Eric Hoskins pledges Liberal government support to Bridletowne Hub|date = 30 August 2017 |first=Mike|last=Adler|website=toronto.com|access-date=19 June 2023}} this was made possible through SHN's Love, Scarborough campaign.{{cite web|url=https://www.shnfoundation.ca/2023/06/19/celebrating-the-groundbreaking-of-the-bridletowne-neighbourhood-centre/|title=CELEBRATING THE GROUNDBREAKING OF THE BRIDLETOWNE NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE|date=19 June 2023|website=SHN Foundation|access-date=19 June 2023}}

Advertising

In January 2022, SHN through the Scarborough Health Network Foundation launched Love, Scarborough, their $ 100 million advertising and fundraising campaign, focused on bringing awareness to the lack of hospital donations and adequate healthcare support for Scarborough compared to other Toronto hospital networks and institutions.{{Cite web|url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/01/10/love-scarborough-health-network-hospitals/|title = Scarborough Health Network launches $100M hospital fundraising campaign|date = 10 January 2022|first=Nick|last=Westoll |website=CityNews Toronto|access-date=19 June 2023}}