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Grey Bruce Health Services - Owen Sound

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Grey Bruce Health Services-Owen Sound (formerly the Grey Bruce Regional Health Centre) is a 158-bed secondary referral centre providing specialist care to Grey and Bruce Counties.

The Owen Sound Site is one of six hospitals that amalgamated in 1998, a medical clinic and withdrawal management service. Together, they form Grey Bruce Health Services.

The corporation provides inpatient and ambulatory care to residents of Owen Sound, the Bruce Peninsula, Saugeen Shores, Meaford and Markdale. It is one of the largest employers in the area.

Grey Bruce Health Services Highlights:

  • over 240 beds across 6 hospitals
  • 125 physicians serving Grey and Bruce counties
  • Owen Sound has 88 physicians
  • 72 of the city's doctors are specialists in their fields
  • a Level 2 Obstetrics and Pediatrics facility

Medical services at the Owen Sound Hospital include:

  • Anaesthesia
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Emergency: 24-hour Service
  • Family Practice
  • Medicine
    • Endocrinology
    • Gastroenterology
    • Rheumatology
  • Obstetrics/Gynecology
  • Oncology
  • Paediatrics
  • Pathology
  • Psychiatry
  • Physiatry
  • Surgery
    • Ophthalmology
    • Orthopedics
    • Otolaryngology
  • Urology

The Owen Sound Hospital acts as the Base Hospital for the region.  The Grey-Bruce-Huron Paramedic Base Hospital Program provides medical direction, leadership, and advice in the provision of ambulance based pre-hospital emergency health care. In addition, the Base Hospital provides certification, training, quality assurance, continuing education and guidance to over 250 ambulance based pre-hospital emergency care providers.

Grey Bruce Health Services Diagnostic Imaging is a truly “Digital Age” department employing the most up to date equipment to provide services in the following areas: Radiology (X-Ray), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computerized Tomography (CT), Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine, Bone Densitometry and Mammography.  Medical Images are captured, stored and distributed electronically which speeds up the availability of results for the referring Physician.  The department also provides Mammography services as an affiliate of the Ontario Breast Screening Program.

For more information about Grey Bruce Health Services, go to www.gbhs.on.ca

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