Prince County Hospital
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Prince County Hospital is an acute care hospital located in Summerside
, Prince Edward Island
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The Prince County Hospital has a capacity of 102 beds and provides the following services:
. The original location of the Prince County Hospital was on St. Stephen Street in downtown Summerside. This facility was replaced in 1951 by a facility located on Beattie Avenue; this street being named to honour Grace Brow Beattie, RN who was the first administrator of PCH. This facility was replaced in 2004 by the present facility located on a 27 acre property on Roy Boates Avenue in the city's north end; this street being named to honour Roy Boates, a pharmacist
at PCH. The new location provides improved vehicle access to Route 2
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Summerside, Prince Edward Island
Summerside is a Canadian city in Prince County, Prince Edward Island. It is the second largest city in the province and the principal municipality for the western part of the island.- History :...
, Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population...
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The Prince County Hospital has a capacity of 102 beds and provides the following services:
- surgerySurgerySurgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...
- internal medicineInternal medicineInternal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists. They are especially skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes...
- obstetricsObstetricsObstetrics is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy , childbirth and the postnatal period...
- pediatricsPediatricsPediatrics or paediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician or paediatrician...
- psychiatryPsychiatryPsychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
- radiologyRadiologyRadiology is a medical specialty that employs the use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualized within the human body. Radiologists use an array of imaging technologies to diagnose or treat diseases...
- pathologyPathologyPathology is the precise study and diagnosis of disease. The word pathology is from Ancient Greek , pathos, "feeling, suffering"; and , -logia, "the study of". Pathologization, to pathologize, refers to the process of defining a condition or behavior as pathological, e.g. pathological gambling....
- endoscopyEndoscopyEndoscopy means looking inside and typically refers to looking inside the body for medical reasons using an endoscope , an instrument used to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body. Unlike most other medical imaging devices, endoscopes are inserted directly into the organ...
- anesthesiaAnesthesiaAnesthesia, or anaesthesia , traditionally meant the condition of having sensation blocked or temporarily taken away...
- rehabilitation
- oncologyOncologyOncology is a branch of medicine that deals with cancer...
- emergency medicineEmergency departmentAn emergency department , also known as accident & emergency , emergency room , emergency ward , or casualty department is a medical treatment facility specialising in acute care of patients who present without prior appointment, either by their own means or by ambulance...
History
PCH is the province's second largest acute care hospital and the first hospital to be located outside of CharlottetownCharlottetown
Charlottetown is a Canadian city. It is both the largest city on and the provincial capital of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, Charlottetown was first incorporated as a town in 1855 and designated as a city in 1885...
. The original location of the Prince County Hospital was on St. Stephen Street in downtown Summerside. This facility was replaced in 1951 by a facility located on Beattie Avenue; this street being named to honour Grace Brow Beattie, RN who was the first administrator of PCH. This facility was replaced in 2004 by the present facility located on a 27 acre property on Roy Boates Avenue in the city's north end; this street being named to honour Roy Boates, a pharmacist
Pharmacist
Pharmacists are allied health professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use...
at PCH. The new location provides improved vehicle access to Route 2
Prince Edward Island Route 2
Route 2 is a two-lane uncontrolled access secondary highway traversing Prince Edward Island, Canada from Tignish to Souris.Route 2 is commonly called the "All Weather Highway," as it was one of the first such roads in Prince Edward Island to be open for traffic in all seasons...
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