| Queen Elizabeth Hospital | |
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Location in Prince Edward Island
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| Geography | |
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| Location | 60 Riverside Drive, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada |
| Organization | |
| Hospital type | Acute care |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level III trauma center |
| Helipad | TC LID: CDV3 |
| Beds | 274 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Links | |
| Website | Queen Elizabeth Hospital |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) is a 274 bed acute care hospital located in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, making it the largest hospital in the province.
The facility opened in 1982, resulting in the closure of the Charlottetown Hospital and the Prince Edward Island Hospital and is named in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
The QEH is located on a large forested campus originally known as Falconwood Farm in the northeast corner of the city adjoining the neighbourhoods of East Royalty and Sherwood, overlooking the Hillsborough River. The Hillsborough Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located on an adjacent property.
The QEH is a full-service health care facility that provides community services to residents of Queens County and is a major referral centre for specialty services for residents across Prince Edward Island.
The QEH provides medical, surgical, ICU, CCU, obstetrics, neonatal, pediatrics, psychiatry and rehabilitation services. The hospital offers full surgical, laboratory and radiology services 24 hours/day, 7 days/week.
In 1999 the Prince Edward Island Cancer Treatment Centre opened a new facility at the QEH and was expanded in 2003. At the same time, the main entrance to the QEH off Riverside Drive was upgraded and the emergency department was expanded.
The opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in 1982 also saw the end of abortion services in the province; one of the conditions that the Roman Catholic Church placed on the provincial government for merging the Catholic-affiliated Charlottetown Hospital with the secular Prince Edward Island Hospital into the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital being that all abortion services in the province be discontinued.[1]
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