Duncan MacMillan Nursing Home
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Nursing home
A nursing home, convalescent home, skilled nursing unit , care home, rest home, or old people's home provides a type of care of residents: it is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living...
in Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia
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Facts
The nursing home was named after Sheet Harbour's well known doctorPhysician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
, Dr. Duncan MacMillan.
The Nova Scotia Department of Health announced plans in 2007 to build a replacement nursing home for Sheet Harbour in 2010.
Care Provided By the Nurses at Duncan MacMillan Nursing Home: General long term care; Long term care: elderly & physically handicapped; Long term care: elderly, physically & mentally handicapped; Long term care: physically handicapped - all ages.
History
The building that now called the Duncan MacMillan Nursing Home was originally built in 1948 as Eastern Shore Memorial HospitalEastern Shore Memorial Hospital
Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital is a hospital in Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia. It is operated by Capital District Health Authority. - Services :* Palliative and Respite Care* Acute Care* Outpatient/Emergency* Ambulatory Care* Diagnostic Imaging...
. It was converted into a Nursing Home
Nursing home
A nursing home, convalescent home, skilled nursing unit , care home, rest home, or old people's home provides a type of care of residents: it is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living...
in 1983 after the a new wing was made into the Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital
Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital
Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital is a hospital in Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia. It is operated by Capital District Health Authority. - Services :* Palliative and Respite Care* Acute Care* Outpatient/Emergency* Ambulatory Care* Diagnostic Imaging...
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