Scarborough Health Network (SHN) is a hospital network in Scarborough,

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, Canada. It operates the Scarborough General, Centenary, and Birchmount hospitals. The three are major community health hospitals with teaching affiliations to the

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History

In 1998, The

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merged the operations of Scarborough General and Birchmount hospitals under its subsidiary The Scarborough Hospital, while Centenary Hospital was under the

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with latter hospital network dissolved, transferring Centenary Hospital's administration to The Scarborough Hospital. The new network of the three hospitals was tentatively named Scarborough and Rouge Hospital in 2016. In 2018, it was officially renamed as 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 is planned for renovation while both the General and Birchmount hospitals are alternatively considered for shut down as a new hospital will be built at a different site in Scarborough. A local campaign known as Save the Grace, headed by

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, appeals to the

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to save the Birchmount Hospital.

Hospitals

* SHN General Hospital, opened 1956 * SHN Centenary Hospital, opened 1967 * SHN Birchmount Hospital, opened 1985

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* {{authority control Hospitals in Toronto Buildings and structures in Scarborough, Toronto Hospitals established in 1999 Hospital networks in Canada 1999 establishments in Ontario

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