Ontario Celebrates Completion of New Diagnostic Imaging Department in Scarborough

April 24, 2025

New department at Scarborough Health Network will protect Ontario health care by reducing wait times and connecting more people to diagnostic imaging services

April 24, 2025

SCARBOROUGH — The Ontario government is celebrating the completion of Scarborough Health Network’s (SHN) new Northpine Diagnostic Imaging Department at their General Hospital site, connecting more people to the world-class diagnostic care they need, close to home.

“Our government is proud to work with the Scarborough Health Network and its community partners to make it faster and easier for Scarborough patients to access diagnostic services close to home. This new state-of the-art diagnostic facility demonstrates our government’s commitment to improving access to care for the people of Scarborough, meeting the growing needs of our community, and building a healthier Scarborough,” said Dr. Raymond Cho, MPP for Scarborough North, marking this major health care milestone in Scarborough.

“Our government is protecting Ontario’s provincial health care system by ensuring that more people in Scarborough and across Toronto can connect to convenient diagnostic care, where and when they need it,” said Sylvia Jones, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health. “With Scarborough Health Network’s new state-of-the-art Northpine Diagnostic Imaging Department, we are making it faster and easier for more people to access MRI’s, mammograms and other important diagnostic services, in their community, for years to come.”

Supported by a provincial investment of up to $36.6 million, the new 36,000-square-foot department will double the space for imaging services at Scarborough Health Network’s General Hospital to become one of the most advanced, modern imaging facilities in Toronto. This facility will bring together and support SHN’s dedicated team of radiologists, medical radiation and imaging technologists, specialized nurses, and other related staff, who perform over 333,000 diagnostic imaging exams annually across their health network.

Through this new state-of-the-art department, people and families in the region will have access to the following services:

  • two magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, including the first 3-Tesla MRI in Scarborough, which will support over 12,800 scans each year and reduce wait times to access critical diagnostic imaging
  • an innovative breast imaging centre, equipped with an additional mammography room which will allow SHN to increase the number of breast screenings from approximately 9,500 to 15,000 – an increase of over 58 per cent
  • dedicated suites for nuclear medicine, computed tomography, MRI, and ultrasound
  • a full radiology unit with two procedure rooms, a preparation and recovery bay, and a dedicated nurses’ station, allowing SHN to almost double the number of procedures to 2,500 annually

Through Your Health: A Plan For Connected and Convenient Care, Ontario is expanding and modernizing hospitals, making it easier and faster for people of all ages to connect to the care they need, closer to home.

Quick Facts

  • SHN operates three full-service hospitals and several community-based locations, offering more than 850,000 people essential services throughout the eastern Greater Toronto Area, including emergency, diagnostic imaging, surgery, and rehabilitation care.
  • The 3-Tesla MRI has a magnet twice as powerful, producing higher-quality and more detailed images so radiologists can pinpoint abnormalities more accurately and efficiently.
  • Ontario is getting shovels in the ground for over 50 hospital developments across the province. Over the next 10 years, Ontario’s investments will lead to nearly $50 billion in health infrastructure across the province, building 3,000 new beds in addition to the over 3,500 beds the government has added since 2020. This includes additional expansion projects at Scarborough Health Network, such as the redevelopment of Birchmount Hospital, a new emergency department at the Centenary site and the addition of 27 new hemodialysis stations at SHN’s General and Centenary sites.
  • The Ontario government is expanding publicly funded diagnostic services through community surgical and diagnostic centres, connecting 100,000 more people to services each year, in addition to funding up to 65,968 MRI and 31,220 CT operating hours in existing community surgical and diagnostic centres over the past year.
  • Ontario achieved the shortest surgical wait times of any province in Canada in 2023. The province is continuing to grow the health care workforce, adding a historic number of new nurses and laboratory technologists through the Ontario Learn and Stay Grant, As of Right rules and the 700 additional education seats for medical radiation and imaging technologists, medical laboratory technologists, medical lab technicians and medical radiation extenders announced in the 2024 budget.
  • The Ontario government invested more than $228 million in 2024-25 to support critical infrastructure upgrades and repairs at 129 hospitals and 58 community health care facilities across the province, a 10 per cent increase from the previous year. This includes an allocation of nearly $5.2 million for SHN in 2024-25 through the Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund.