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Ross Memorial Hospital Quick Facts

  • Currently operating 175 beds (215 bed capacity) with 45,000 emergency department visits annually
  • $50 million expansion project completed in 2005; Dialysis facility added in 2008
  • State of the art equipment including fully digital radiology department
  • Operating budget of $80 million
  • Staff of over 820, plus approx. 100 medical staff, with a family approach to health care

Continuing Care Program

  • 36 Complex Continuing care beds including Functional Enhancement and Geriatric Engagement (GERI) Unit
  • 16 General Rehabilitation beds
  • 10 Palliative Care beds
  • Specialization includes complex long-term medical care and functional enhancement
  • Palliative care specializing in Pain & Symptom Management and a multi-disciplinary approach to end of life care
  • Outpatient Palliative Pain and Symptom Management Clinic

Critical Care/Medical Programs

  • Emergency Department open 24 hours/7 days a week, with Emergency Physicians
  • Intensive Care Unit with 8 beds
  • 40 adult Medical beds
  • Diabetes Education Program, Cardiac & Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs
  • Dialysis Program

Mental Health Program

  • Schedule 1 facility with 15 bed Inpatient Unit including 3 Psychiatric Intensive Care beds
  • Comprehensive Adult Day Program including Medication Clinic, and Older Adults Program
  • Psychiatric Consultation Clinics and follow-up
  • Community Counseling Services include: Adult Counseling, Case Management, Crisis Intervention, Early Psychosis Intervention, Child and Youth Sexual Abuse Response Program
  • Integrated Mental Health System for the City of Kawartha Lakes in partnership with CMHA Victoria County and the Psychiatric Survivor initiative SPAN.

Surgical Program

  • Inpatient Surgery has 36 adult surgical beds
  • Day Surgery services include: general, gynecology, urology, ophthalmology, oral surgery
  • Ambulatory Care unit includes the following clinics: Pre-operative Assessment, Diabetes Maintenance, Pain Management, Chronic Disease Management, Congestive Heart Failure, After Hours Clinic

Obstetrics

  • Obstetric Unit has 11 LBRP (Labour, Birth, Recovery, Post partum) beds, Neonatal Level I Nursery and Antenatal Clinic

Diagnostic Services

  • General Radiology services, including fluoroscopy
  • Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  • Ultrasound (OBS, abdomen, musculoskeletal, 2D echo, and small parts)
  • Mammography, including Ontario Breast Screening Program and Breast Assessment Centre
  • Nuclear Medicine (Parkway Nuclear) and Bone Densitometry
  • Digital Picture Archiving & Communications System (PACS)
  • Laboratory Services include: Hematology, Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Chemistry, Tissue Pathology, Microbiology, Electrocardiograms, Autopsy