The hospital has implemented the latest technological communication and equipment programs to enhance the quality of care. The Meditech Computer System is installed and has enhanced overall comunications. The system incorporates patient records, lab and imaging test results, and inpatient services. Meditech is also available through individual physicians offices.

• 211 Acute care beds including medicine (Cardiac Care Unit), mental health, surgery, obstetrics (National Level II Nursery), palliative care and paediatrics
• 82 Complex continuing care beds
• 27 rehabilitation beds
  
  

Orthopedics, neurology, Ophthamology, Oncology, ENT., Cardica, Rheumatology, General Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, OB/GYN, Urology, Dermatology, Psychiatry, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Radiology, Pathology.

• Outpatient dialysis clinic
• Emergency Departments – Mitton Site, CEE Site. 24 hours / 7 days a week
• Day hospital offers interprofessional rehab program
• Oncology unit – on site olcologist provides chemotherapy for most major cancer sites – radiation oncologist visits once a month from the London Regional Cancer Program
• Designated district stroke centre
• Secondary stroke prevention clinic
  
  

• Schedule 1 inpatient psychiatric program
• Community treatment orders
• Problem gambling program
• Eating disorder program (up to age 21)
• Mental health crisis nurse available in emergency department
• Child and adolescent/geriatric psychiatry available
• Back on track service
• Outpatient mental health programs include – Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) for adults and youth addiction
  
  

• MRI – Magnetic Resonance Imaging 1.5 Tz
• CT – 64 multislice GE
• PACS - Picture Archival Communication System available to offices of credentialed physicians
• Ultrasound – OBS, abdomen, pelvis, musculoskeletal, vascular 2D echo, and small parts
• DR – Digital Radiography Unit
• Nuclear Medicine – (general, S.P.E.C.T., heart)
• Mammography, including OBSP, CAR accredited
• Bone densitometry
• Interventional radiology – biopsies, all organs, drainage
• Aspirations
• Voice controlled dictation being implemented
  
  

Bluewater Health, with hospital sites in Sarnia and Petrolia, has 320 beds. The hospital has 1,700 staff, 100 credentialed physicians and 800 volunteers who care for 319,000 patients annually.

Bluewater Health is the winner of the Ontario Hospital Association's "Green Health Care - Overall Leadership Award - 2005".

Awards won by Bluewater Health:

Winner of Healthy Living Lambton's
"Gold Healthy Workplace Award – 2007"

Winner of Ontario Hospital Association's
"Green Health Care – Overall Leadership Award – 2005"

Winner of Ontario Hospital Association's
"Healthy Hospital Innovators Award – 2004"


For more information, see www.bluewaterhealth.ca