Hospital
St. Joseph's General Hospital
St. Joseph's General Hospital is a 58-bed, accredited facility with medical, surgical, obstetrical, pediatrics, chronic care facilities and a 24-hour emergency department.
Hospital services
- Medical and surgical care
- Obstetrics
- Intensive care
- Day surgery
- 24-hour emergency service
- Radiology
- Ultrasound
- Visiting clinics
- Bone density screening
- Laboratory
- Cardiopulmonary testing
- Speech pathology
- Occupational therapy
- Physiotherapy
- Pastoral care
- Social services
- Chemotherapy
- Diabetic clinics
- Clinical nutrition
Ambulatory care
An ambulatory care unit runs from Monday to Friday and consists of day surgery, specialists' clinics, diabetes education, chemotherapy, cardiac rehabilitation and outreach programs. Medical staff provide 24-hour coverage, with 15 general practitioners and two general surgeons.
Out-of-town specialists
Out-of-town specialists visit at the hospital on a regular or as-needed basis. These services reduce the need to travel to larger, urban centres. They include:
- Internal medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Gynecology
- Cardiology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics
- Urology
- Nephrology
- Dermatology
- Cardiovascular surgery
- Psychiatry
- Pediatrics
- Otolaryngology (ear, nose, throat)
