Sault Area Hospital

Industry:	Hospitals & Clinics
Employees:	1,300

Description

Sault Area Hospital (SAH) is an amalgamation of the former Plummer Memorial Public Hospital and the Sault Ste. Marie General Hospital Inc. The provincial government has announced its support for construction of a new hospital on the Davey Home site and plans are progressing for construction to begin in 2006.

The two main hospital sites are located adjacent to each other on the waterfront. SAH is a 289-bed facility, serving a total catchment population of approximately 120,000 across the Algoma District.

The hospital's comprehensive cancer treatment program includes chemotherapy, biotherapy and full supportive care via the Algoma Regional Cancer Program, located at the Plummer site. Eight dedicated palliative beds are located adjacent to the Oncology unit. Plans call for a satellite radiation centre at the new hospital.

A CT scanner and MRI are included among the hospital's diagnostic equipment. Other diagnostic services include nuclear medicine and a state-of-the-art cardiac angiography suite.

The Health Sciences Library is professionally staffed and is a part of the Northern Ontario Virtual Library (NOVL) program. SAHViL, the Hospital's customized web portal, can be accessed via the SAH website.

There are also two satellite hospital sites - Matthews Memorial, an emergency and outpatient hospital on St. Joseph Island (30 minutes east) and Thessalon Hospital, a four-bed hospital in Thessalon (one hour east). An active and successful foundation, Sault Area Hospital Foundation, fundraises on the Hospital's behalf.

News Archive

Canada: Sault roadwork moving ahead on time and on budget. TendersInfo; 8/11/2009 ...The city s third major project is the extension of Third Line from People s Road to the access centre of the new Sault Area Hospital. Dolcetti said this project, which this year runs from Great Northern Road east about 1,000 metres to the access... ...more