Rouge Valley Health System (RVHS) was a hospital network in the province of

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, Canada. It was created in 1998 through the merger of Centenary Health Centre in

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and the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital in

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, serving the communities of

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, Pickering, Ajax and

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. 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. In 2016, Rouge Valley Health Network was defunct after Rouge Valley Centenary partnered with The Scarborough Hospital to form the

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while Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering joined Lakeridge Health.

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