Capital District Health Authority
- Capital District Health Authority
The Capital District Health Authority (shortened to Capital Health or the Capital Health District) is the largest of the nine health administrative districts in Nova Scotia, Canada.
ervice
Capital Health is responsible for delivering core health services in the Halifax Regional Municipality and in the Municipality of the District of West Hants, consisting of 395,000 residents or 40% of the provincial population. It also delivers tertiary and quaternary acute care services to residents throughout Atlantic Canada as a result of being the location of the region's largest teaching hospitals that make Capital Health a major referral option for the provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Facilities
* Cobequid Community Health Centre (Lower Sackville)
* Dartmouth General Hospital (Dartmouth)
* East Coast Forensic Hospital (Dartmouth)
* Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital (Sheet Harbour)
* Hants Community Hospital (Windsor)
* Musquodoboit Valley Memorial Hospital (Middle Musquodoboit)
* Nova Scotia Environmental Health Centre (Fall River)
* Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre (Halifax)
** Halifax Infirmary Site
***Abbie J. Lane
***Camp Hill Veterans' Memorial
***Halifax Infirmary
**Victoria General Site
***Bethune
***Centennial
***Centre for Clinical Research
***Dickson
***Mackenzie
***Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre
***Victoria
* Nova Scotia Hospital (Dartmouth)
* Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital (Musquodoboit Harbour)
Administration
The President and Chief Executive Officer of the Capital District Health Authority is Chris Power, a nurse with broad experience in primary health care and in health care administration.
Capital Health has seven volunteer Community Health Boards that advise the district administrators and encourage public participation in health planning.
Capital Health employs approximately 9,985 staff. and is affiliated with the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine.
Capital Health operates a charitable foundation which is chaired by Constance Glube, the 21st Chief Justice of Nova Scotia.
The District was an important participant in the 2004 Baker and Norton paper, printed in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Health System error. [http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/170/11/1678]
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