** Our Mission **
To provide the best health care experience for our patients and their families.
** Our Vision **
To be the best at what we do.
** Our Values **
* Accountable for our resources, our services and our behaviours
* Responsive, respectful and caring to our patients, colleagues and community
* Value the diversity of our organization and community
* Honest and trustworthy
* Strive for innovation and high performance and committed to continuous
learning
History Of Ajax-Pickering hospital
** Our History **
For over a decade now, Rouge Valley Health System has been delivering health care to the communities of Scarborough, Pickering, Ajax and Whitby. We were formed in 1998 when the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care brought together Centenary Health Centre and the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital. The primary purpose of establishing RVHS was to provide the regions of east Toronto and west Durham with more effective and comprehensive health services—a goal that is always a top priority for us.
Rouge Valley Ajax and Pickering
* 1954
Through community fundraising efforts, the hospital is opened. It is a single wooden building with 38 beds and 12 bassinets.
* 1958
A brick addition to the hospital is built that increases capacity to 50 beds.
* 1964
A new four-storey brick building is opened replaces the older wooden structure, which is demolished. The new has 127 acute-care beds and 24 bassinets.
* 1976
An addition is added to the north side of the brick building to accommodate expanded outpatient services.
* 1994
A new four-storey west wing is opened
Rouge Valley Centenary
* 1963
Planning starts for a new hospital in the community of Scarborough.
* 1967
After several years of development, the new hospital opens as a 15-floor tower with 41 doctors on staff.
* 1984
The new four-storey Margaret Birch Wing is opened. This addition includes continuing care and rehabilitation, new emergency department, intensive care unit, coronary care unit and upgrades to diagnostic imaging.
* 1991
Another addition, “The Court” is opened. Now serving as the front entrance to the hospital, The Court has medical offices and a retail mall.
