Lakeridge Health is a

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and

hospital network A hospital network is a public, non-profit or for-profit company or organization that provides two or more hospitals and other broad healthcare facilities and services. A hospital network may include hospitals in one or more regions within one or ...

serving

Durham Region The Regional Municipality of Durham (), informally referred to as Durham Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada. Located east of Toronto and the Regional Municipality of York, it forms the east end of the Greater Toronto A ...

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in the eastern part of the

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. It operates four acute hospitals with

emergency department An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the Acute (medicine), ...

s (

Bowmanville Bowmanville is a community of approximately 40,000 people located in the Municipality of Clarington, Durham Region, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately east of Toronto, and east of Oshawa along Highway 2. Bowmanville was first incorporated a ...

Oshawa Oshawa is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline. It lies in Southern Ontario, approximately east of downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of the Greater Toronto Area and of the Golden Horseshoe. It ...

Port Perry Port Perry is a community located in Scugog, Ontario, Canada. The town is located northeast of central Toronto, north of Oshawa, and east of Whitby, Ontario, Whitby. Port Perry has a population of 9,553 as of 2021. Port Perry serves as the admi ...

, Ajax and Pickering), one specialty hospital with a regional mandate (

Whitby Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is on the Yorkshire Coast at the mouth of the River Esk, North Yorkshire, River Esk and has a maritime, mineral and tourist economy. From the Middle Ages, Whitby ...

) and a variety of offsite locations. Lakeridge Health is part of the Central East

Local Health Integration Network Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) were the Health regions of Canada, health authorities responsible for regional administration of public healthcare services in the Canadian province of Ontario. Legacy LHIN functions were transferred to th ...

(CE LHIN).

History

After a recommendation from the Health Services Restructuring Commission in 1998, the Ontario government amalgamated four Durham area hospitals: Memorial Hospital Bowmanville, North Durham Health Services (consisting of Community Memorial Hospital Port Perry and

Uxbridge Cottage Hospital Uxbridge Cottage Hospital is a cottage hospital in Uxbridge, Ontario. History Opened in 1958 after a decade of planning, Uxbridge Hospital has undergone renovations with additions in 1967 and 1996 to 1998 (covered area at the main entrance and in ...

Oshawa General Hospital Lakeridge Health Oshawa, formerly Oshawa General Hospital, is a hospital located in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in August 1910 in a two-story building, and major additions were made in the 1920s (surgical and maternity wings). "G" Wing ...

and

Whitby General Hospital Lakeridge Health Whitby is a clinic in Whitby, Ontario, offering specialized health services to the Durham Region. History The clinic originally was opened as a full-service hospital for the town of Whitby on December 17, 1969, named the Dr. J. ...

– to create what is now known as Lakeridge Health. In January 2004, the

Uxbridge Uxbridge () is a suburban town in west London, England, and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon, northwest of Charing Cross. Uxbridge formed part of the parish of Hillingdon in the county of Middlesex. As part ...

site became aligned with

Markham Stouffville Hospital Markham Stouffville Hospital is an acute care community hospital with two sites: the Markham site, with diagnostic and emergency services, and clinical programs in childbirth, children's health, surgery, medicine, cancer care and mental health; a ...

and left the Lakeridge grouping. With the merger of

Rouge Valley Health System 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 communi ...

and

The Scarborough Hospital 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 ...

, management of the

Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering Lakeridge Health Ajax and Pickering is a hospital in Ajax, Ontario, Canada that is operated by Lakeridge Health. The hospital opened in 1954 as the ''Ajax and Pickering General Hospital''. It was founded in 1954 as the Ajax and Pickering General ...

site was transferred to Lakeridge Health on December 1, 2016. The President and Chief Executive Officer is Cynthia Davis. On May 13, 2017, Lakeridge Health was attacked by the

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among many other institutions around the globe. By afternoon, most areas were up and running again. On April 26, 2018, Lakeridge Health launched an online platform MyChart for patients to manage their health information.

Services

Lakeridge Health offers primary, secondary, tertiary and post-acute care in inpatient and ambulatory settings. Services differ at the acute hospital sites, from the predominantly General Practitioner (GP), based services at Lakeridge Health Port Perry to the very high acuity services provided at Lakeridge Health Oshawa by physician specialists and interprofessional teams. Services provided across Lakeridge Health are organized into eight clinical programs: *Emergency and Critical Care *Maternal Child *Medicine *Addictions & Mental Health *Post-Acute Specialty Services (PASS) *Regional Cancer Services *Regional Nephrology System/Durham Region Diabetes Network *Surgery

References

External links

Lakeridge Health official website
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