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23,400 (2015) Website. www .nshealth .ca. The Nova Scotia Health Authority is a provincial health authority serving Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the largest employer in the province, with more than 23,000 employees, 2,500 physicians and 7,000 volunteers working from 45 different facilities. [1] Its largest hospital is the Halifax Infirmary which ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Nova Scotia is an ongoing viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19 ), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ). On March 15, 2020, three presumptive cases in Nova Scotia were announced. All three were travel-related.
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre. / 44.638889; -63.579167. Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, is a large teaching hospital and Level 1 Trauma Centre affiliated with Dalhousie University. The QEII cares for adult patients. Pediatric patients within the region are cared for at the IWK Health Centre.
Cape Breton Regional Hospital is a Canadian hospital in Sydney, Nova Scotia . Operated by the Nova Scotia Health Authority, the Cape Breton Regional Hospital opened in 1995, replacing the Sydney City Hospital (opened in 1916) and St. Rita's Hospital (opened in 1920). Cape Breton Regional Hospital operates as a tertiary care referral hospital ...
Health regions of Canada. Health regions, also called health authorities, are a governance model used by Canada 's provincial and territorial governments to administer and deliver public health care to all Canadian residents. Health care is designated a provincial responsibility under the separation of powers in Canada's federal system.
Emergency Health Services ( EHS) is a branch of the Nova Scotia Department of Health tasked with providing emergency medical services. It is also responsible for transportation of patients between hospitals and medical facilities. At present, all ground ambulance and air ambulance service in Nova Scotia is contracted by EHS to Emergency Medical ...
IWK Health Centre. / 44.637639; -63.58425. IWK Health is a major women's and children's (pediatric) hospital and trauma centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia that provides care to maritime youth, children and women from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and beyond. The IWK is the largest facility in Atlantic Canada caring for children ...
The Nova Scotia Hospital, known locally as The NS or Mount Hope, is a psychiatric hospital in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Operated by the Nova Scotia Health Authority, it is the province's largest and oldest mental health facility. Co-founded by the Hon. Hugh Bell [1] and Dorothea Dix, it opened in 1856 as the Mount Hope Asylum for the Insane and ...