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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 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 ...
Cumberland RegionalHealth Care Centre. / 45.8041; -64.1968. Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre is a hospital near Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Located next to Highway 104 in the rural community of Upper Nappan, Cumberland Regional serves residents of Cumberland County .
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 ...
Medical Service Insurance. The Medical Service Insurance (MSI) is the Nova Scotian government 's health insurance . The Medical Services Insurance Programs are administered by Medavie Blue Cross for the Nova Scotia government Department of Health Policy Directive. [1]
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 ...
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.
The Victoria General Hospital was founded in 1867, when the City of Halifax and the provincial government renamed the existing City and Provincial Hospital at the same location. The City and Provincial Hospital had been built in 1859 on a swampy field near South Park Street, after years of debate and fundraising among the city’s medical and ...