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QHC provides clot-busting drug for stroke patients
People suffering a stroke in the Quinte area now have faster access to the clot-busting drug Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA) to try to reduce and reverse the effects of the stroke. Previously, patients were automatically re-routed to Kingston to receive this treatment. tPA is suitable for people who have suffered an ischemic stroke within the […]
Banks help QHC Imagine $10 million
CHEERS! to community leaders such as those at Scotiabank. Thanks to them, the Imagine Campaign accomplished exactly what it set out to do – raise $10 million to buy diagnostic equipment for all QHC hospital sites. Under the Imagine Campaign stewardship an MRI was installed at Belleville hospital along with a CT scanner upgrade; a […]
Hospital Auxiliary and Foundation present $80,000
CHEERS! to the Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation and Auxiliary! PECMH had an emergent need for two colonoscopes for the operating room at a cost of approximately $80,000. The Foundation approached the PECMH Auxiliary to assist with the purchase of one of the colonoscopes. At the auxiliary’s Oct. 22 general meeting, it was unanimously […]
