Riverside Health Care - Fort Frances - La Verendrye Hospital

Operates a full service 30-bed acute care facility

• Offers 3 intensive care beds, 2 labour and delivery rooms, and 25 medical and surgical beds
• Houses a surgical unit which includes a fully integrated operating room, day surgery, post anaesthesia, a recovery room, a pre admission clinic, endoscopy and cardiac stress testing
• Provides a 24 hour emergency department
• Offers services of a visiting orthopaedic surgeon on a monthly basis for total knee arthoplasty
• Offers services of various visiting specialists such as oncologists, pediatricians and geriatricians

Northern Ontario Remote Telecommunication Health (NORTH) Network

• Provides services of medical specialists to patients, family members and rural physicians via teleconferencing
• Provides support and advice to physicians for patient diagnoses and continuing care
• Provides access to professional health education

NOTE: Please do not call the emergency department seeking medical advice. Due to legal reasons the emergency department staff are unable to provide advice or information over the telephone

Services and Programs:

• Breast Health Program
• Clinical Nutrition
• Community Support Services
• Emergency Department, Fort Frances - La Verendrye Hospital
• GLA:D - Education and Exercise for Osteoarthritis
• Healthy Lifestyles
• Ontario Breast Screening Program
• Outpatient Services
• Physiotherapy Services
• Rehabilitation Services
• Riverside Community Counselling Services
• Stroke Prevention Clinic
• Telestroke Program
• Visiting Specialist - Rapid Access Clinic
• Visiting Specialist - Rheumatology
• Visiting Specialists