What our facilities have to offer

Slideshow of Arcola Health Centre and Arcola Medical Clinic

Many rural ERs and health centres have only bare-bones equipment.

The Arcola Health Centre is pleased to have:

  • EMS access with primary care & intermediate care paramedics & AED equipped ambulances
  • Life pack 10 monitor / defibrillator
  • 2 Critikon Dinamap B.P. monitors
  • 4 I.V. Plum Pumps
  • Computer access for each department throughout the facility
  • X-ray machines - Phillips x-ray ceiling track ( brand new in June ‘06)
  • Digital Kodak CR 500
  • ECG machine new in spring ‘07 
  • Philips Page Writer Trim 1 & 3
  • 12 beds for inpatients.  8 are electric beds
  • Blanket warmer
  • 2 fully stocked ER rooms equipped with Hill Rom hydraulic stretchers, Oxygen monitors, monitor defibrillators, and supplies
  • Telehealth: local access for education for doctors, nurses, professionals & general public on psychiatry, diabetes, palliative care, & many other topics
  • Up to date equipment to provide timely and reliable testing
  • Lab can provide STAT testing including Hematology, chemistry, & coagulation, urinalysis, ECG
  • Onsite blood bank, recently installed April ‘07
  • Stat analysis for cardiac troponin, providing STAT cardiac testing, results with in 15 minutes of drawing sample; with the goal of treating cardiac patients within the "Golden Hour"
  • Medical Records: Up to date with demographics re: client information
  • Home Care services covering a large area, offering assessment, case management, nursing, homemaking, personal care, in-home respite, and meals on wheels. Home Care’s goals are to teach self care & strength abilities, to delay/ prevent loss of abilities, to assist families & other supports, & to provide referral services to other agencies. Home care is not intended to take over those things clients are able to do for themselves or replace existing support
  • Volunteers, palliative care, equipment loaning for short periods, arranging for lifeline/personal response units, wellness clinics, & diabetes resource nurses, home IV therapy, and dressings

Our communities continue to support our facility & have often assisted with financial support for our equipment.