What our facilities have to offer

Many rural ERs and health centres have only bare-bones equipment. The slideshows below illustrate the outstanding nature of each of our facilities. You may have to allow the Flash program to run in your browser before seeing the slideshows under each heading.

Arcola Medical Clinic

The Arcola Medical Clinic was newly constructed in 2009. Bright, airy and cheerful, the clinic has been furnished with all the requirements for running a modern health care clinic.

Moose Mountain Lodge, Carlyle

The Moose Mountain Lodge provides:

  • Level 3 & 4 Care
  • Respite including Palliative Support
  • Adult Day Care: Monday through Friday

 

Arcola Health Centre

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.