Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) is a hospital located in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. The hospital was established in January 1999, and it is a combination of the former Peterborough Civic Hospital and St. Joseph's Health Centre. All acute care services were provided at 1 Hospital Drive (the former Civic Hospital), located in the Central-West part of the city, while chronic, rehabilitation and palliative care services, along with some out-patient medical and surgical services, were provided from the 384 Rogers Street site (the former St. Joseph's Health Centre) located in the "East City" or Ashburnham neighbourhood of Peterborough. Effective June 2008, all services of the PRHC (excluding some Outpatient Mental Health services and the Women's Health Care Centre) moved into a new hospital building located directly in front of the old Civic Hospital across from the Nicholls Building, which continued to house some Outpatient Mental Health services (including the Schizophrenia Clinic, Family & Youth Clinic, and Psychiatric Services for the Elderly) until 2010.
In late 2010, all patient services were moved into the new hospital building located at 1 Hospital Drive. Demolition of the Nicholls building began in November 2011 and was completed in December 2011.
The hospital is affiliated with the Queen's University School of Medicine, and is a training site for the Family Medicine Residency Program.
Service area
The City of Peterborough, located in Central-East Ontario, is one of the largest cities between the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Ottawa, and is the business, culture, education, and health care centre of a greater region stretching from the Counties of Northumberland (south) to Haliburton (north), and the City of Kawartha Lakes (west) to Hastings County (east). The region covers a large geographic area, and is home to a population of approximately 350,000.
As a regional hospital, the PRHC receives many urgent and emergency transfers of seriously ill or injured patients from smaller hospitals in and around its catchment area, including hospitals in Bancroft, Barry's Bay, Belleville, Campbellford, Cobourg, Haliburton, Lindsay, and Trenton.
Staff and volunteers
PRHC is the region's largest employer with a staff of approximately 2,500 and about 500 physicians with various privileges. The hospital has more than 600 volunteers.
Program and service areas
Cancer Care (oncology and radiation services) Cardiac (including Interventional Cardiac Catheterisation, Telemetry, CCU and Pacemaker Insertion) Critical Care Medicine (ICU, Rapid Response Team, Plasmapheresis, Hemodialysis) Diagnostic Imaging Services (including General Radiology and Fluoroscopy, CT, MRI, Ultrasound) Dialysis Emergency Services (including Base Hospital and District Stroke Centre) General Medicine Geriatrics Internal Medicine (Cardiology, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Neurology, Rheumatology) Interventional Radiology Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Long-term Care Medical Oncology (including Outpatient Cancer Clinic) Mental Health Services (including Inpatient, Outpatient Clinics) Paediatrics (including Inpatient, Paediatric surgery) Perinatal & Women's Health (including Gynaecology, Labour & Delivery, Maternity, Basinettes, Level II Nursery, Women's Health Centre) Pharmacy Surgery (General, Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology/ENT, Plastics, Urology, Vascular)
Statistics 2016 - 2017
Admitted 19,087 inpatients
83,319 visits to the Emergency Department
215,850 outpatient visits
30,451 Mental Health & Addictions outpatient visits
4,999 radiation treatment visits
Performed 125,133 Diagnostic Imaging procedures
Delivered 1,572 babies into the world
Performed 22,034 surgical procedures
Performed 942 hip and knee procedures
Completed 1.65 million laboratory tests
Completed 2024 cardiac procedures
Administered 2.3 million doses of medication.