Scarborough Health Network (SHN) is Transforming Care, and wants you to be part of this exciting journey.
Attend one of our Community Forum sessions to learn more about our health network’s clinical services planning process, and have the opportunity to share your ideas, experiences and questions, to help us envision the future of hospital services at SHN.
While most people spent their summer vacations soaking up the sun, Dr. Susan John was busy treating patients in Ndalani, Kenya.
Dr. John, an internist at Scarborough Health Network’s (SHN) General hospital, volunteered her skills at the Mully Children’s Family (MCF) Medical Camp, a Christian-based rescue home for orphaned, neglected, and abused children.
Dr. John learned about MCF during a service at her home church,
Scarborough Health Network (SHN) is pleased to announce that following a national search for our new Executive Vice President, Clinical Programs, SHN will be appointing Rebecca Harvey to this role, effective Monday, November 18, 2019.
Rebecca is a dynamic and effective senior management leader with more than 20 years executive experience in health care. She is currently the Vice President,
A new colon cancer screening clinic at SHN is helping people in our community get the care they need, as conveniently as possible.
Using Fecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) to screen people who have an average risk of developing colorectal cancer, the FIT Positive Screening Clinic will reduce wait times for FIT testing and colonoscopies for patients who need them.
Congratulations to Scarborough Health Networks (SHN) dialysis vascular access team for their outstanding work in renal care, as recognized by The Ontario Renal Network (ORN).
The ORN awarded SHN for achieving the Vascular Access Surgery Wait Time (Priority 3) indicator for the 2018/19 fiscal year. Meeting a rate of 98.9 per cent, an increase from the 2017/2018 year,
A big “congratulations” goes out to team Scarborough Health Network (SHN) who were crowned champions of the second annual Invitational Soccer Tournament hosted by the Region of Durham Paramedic Services. Staff came together to face off against fellow health care practitioners and emergency services personnel in the annual soccer tournament with proceeds being donated to the Wounded Warriors,
With great sensitivity for the families of deceased patients top of mind, staff from the patient transporting team brought SHN’s values of compassion and innovation to life with significant contributions to the redesign of a morgue stretcher cover.
When the new morgue stretchers arrived in July this year, the Birchmount and General Transport teams were pleasantly surprised because they looked more like regular stretchers,
Photograph: Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, joined by SHN staff and physicians, and Scarborough MPPs
Ontario invests in expanding and redeveloping Birchmount hospital’s Emergency Department.
Code: Transformation! Scarborough Health Network’s (SHN) mission to improve our patients’ lives through exceptional care got a half a million boosts this morning.
Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health joined SHN staff and physicians,
Next Board meeting: October 3 at Birchmount hospital
Scarborough Health Network’s (SHN) Board of Directors is welcoming five esteemed executives to round out its transformative team of leading minds.
As the Network approaches the first anniversary of its new name, logo, and brand this fall, the 2019-2020 Board of Directors is set to propel SHN toward our vision of becoming Canada’s leading community teaching health network – transforming your health experience.
After a year of planning, research, consultation, and collaboration, SHN’s Women and Children’s program is heading into a busy autumn, as we gear up to develop centres of excellence for paediatrics, obstetrics, and neonatal intensive care.
From renovations, to enhanced education and skills training, the team is in the final stages of the program redesign. They are the first SHN team to transform care through clinical services planning.