Emergency
Welcome to the Annapolis Valley Health Emergency web page. We have 2 hospitals and 3 community health centres offering emergency care at a variety of care levels. Using a multidisciplinary approach we use a 5 level triaging (assessing) structure to streamline patients in those facilities providing emergency care. Our emergency departments assess, diagnose, refer, admit to hospital and provide treatments to patients in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia.
Please do not hesitate to call if an emergency occurs.
Emergency 24 Hour Service
Valley Regional Hospital Emergency (VRH)
(physician in house 24/7)
Kentville, Nova Scotia
Phone: 1 (902) 678-7381or (902) 679-2830
Soldiers Memorial Hospital Emergency (SMH)
(physician in house 24/7)
Middleton, Nova Scotia
Phone: 1 (902) 825-3411
Annapolis Community Health Centre (ACHC)
(on call provided by Family Physicians)
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
Phone: 1 (902) 532-2381
Clinics
Eastern Kings Memorial Community Health Centre (EKM)
(4 hrs (1700 - 2100 hours) evening clinic daily, 5 hrs (1200 - 1700 hours) on weekends)
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Phone: 1 (902) 542-0528
Western Kings Memorial Health Centre (WKM)
(14 hrs weekdays, 8 hrs on weekends)
Berwick, Nova Scotia
Phone: 1 (902) 538-3111
Statistics
| Emergency Visit Numbers by Site |
|
2000/01 |
2001/02 |
| VRH |
30,343 |
31,319 |
| SMH |
15,036 |
14,485 |
| ACHC |
9,723 |
9,977 |
Unscheduled Clinic Visit Numbers |
|
2000/01 |
2001/02 |
| WKM |
14,233 |
14,014 |
| EKM |
12,192 |
11,481 |
911 and Ambulance Service
911
In Nova Scotia, more than 400 agencies respond to police, fire, and medical emergencies. With Nova Scotia's 911 emergency-reporting service, contacting any of these agencies for help is a simple matter of dialing 911, no matter where you are in the province.
Ambulance Service
Emergency Health Services (EHS) provides the ambulance services for Nova Scotia. Emergency Health Services Nova Scotia (EHS), is a division of the Nova Scotia Department of Health. It is responsible for the continual development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of pre-hospital emergency health services in the Province.
