A first for our hospital
Prince Edward County’s new hospital design includes a CT Scanner
At the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation (PECMHF), we are surrounded by extraordinary moments of gratitude and endless reasons to be thankful. We are incredibly grateful to you, our community, for ensuring we have the best in priority medical equipment for our current and new hospitals. This includes helping us raise funds for a new Computerized Tomography (CT) Scanner that will be operational when our new hospital opens.
Yes, you read that right. Prince Edward County’s new hospital design includes a CT Scanner. This is a first in our County and hospital’s history that this critical diagnostic tool will be available in our community.
A CT scan is a minimally invasive way to capture images that provide more detailed information than regular X-rays. In 2022, patients from Prince Edward County needed to be transferred to another Quinte Health hospital for a CT scan close to 2,150 times.
With the addition of a CT Scanner at Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital (PECMH), emergency scans, with highly detailed images from the patients’ head to toe, can be obtained without transferring the patient to another hospital. This imaging is done for falls, strokes, cardiac, and trauma. A CT scan can quickly diagnose brain bleeds, blood clots in the lungs, abdominal perforations, and appendicitis.
Outpatient exams will aid in the early detection and continued monitoring of cancer patients with highly detailed images and reduce wait times for elective procedures. This equipment will also assist with surgical planning for different parts of the body and imaging of the bones for orthopedic physicians.
Because of our donors, volunteers and strong partnerships with Quinte Health, Infrastructure Ontario, the Municipality of Prince Edward County and the Ministry of Health, we are positioned to build a hospital we never imagined possible. And you can be a part of it!
We are designing a 96K square-foot hospital with up to 23 inpatient beds. Enhanced patient comfort, increased infection control measures and the ability to accommodate advanced medical technology are examples of the improvements people will see and experience. The architects are planning to position the new PECMH as the first hospital in North America to have a mass timber frame. With that and the other environmental enhancements being explored, our new hospital will be net carbon zero, thus making operating the hospital more efficient and better for our environment.
Patient comfort, safety, and dignity are at the forefront of every decision!
When you choose to Back the Build, you are helping to attract highly qualified caregivers to live and work here, and YOU are helping to ensure the continuation of access to exceptional care close to home. With donor support, we can ensure our Care Champions working in the new hospital can serve the entire community's needs from an inclusive, diverse, and equitable standpoint.
Our community of supporters has been giving generously to this campaign. Because of our donors, we are in a position where we are not only building a new hospital but also a GREAT hospital, potentially the first hospital of its kind in North America!
We sincerely appreciate every donor giving a gift of any size; every dollar makes a difference. Your support ensures our new hospital will have the resources to deliver the high-quality care PECMH is known for. For that, we are so grateful.
To invest in our hospital’s vibrant future, call 613-476-1008 ext. 4502 or visit our website at www.pecmhf.ca.
