Healthcare in Pictou County
The commitment to quality healthcare — available at home in Pictou County
The Pictou County Health Authority (PCHA) is responsible for delivering health care services to the 46,000 residents of Pictou County as well as regional programs to the larger population of northeastern Nova Scotia. Services and programs are delivered through the Aberdeen Hospital in New Glasgow, Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital in Pictou, Addiction Services, Mental Health Services and Public Health Services. The PCHA was legislated in January 2001 by the Government of Nova Scotia and is one of nine health authorities in the province.
The Aberdeen Hospital, located in New Glasgow, is a regional facility providing a broad range of primary and secondary services through inpatient, outpatient and community-based services:
- 104 beds
- Services: anesthesia, cardiology, diagnostic imaging, emergency, general surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, pathology, pediatrics, psychiatry and urology
- 26 specialists, 29 family physicians, 25 physicians having courtesy or consulting privileges
- The emergency department is a regional emergency department providing trauma service (Level II) and has approximately 30,000 visits per year.
- The ER is staffed by five full-time emergency physicians.
Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital, located in the Town of Pictou, plays an important role in the lives and communities it serves. It has a 12-bed restorative care unit, a 20-bed veterans unit and various outpatient and community programs and services.
The Pictou County Portal provides a database of nursing home care facilities in Pictou County.