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Headwaters Health Care Centre - Orangeville |
Leadership in Health Care – a dedicated and innovative medical community
At the heart of medical services in the Greater Dufferin area is Headwaters
Health Care Centre, an organization that came into existence in 1993 through
Ontario’s first voluntary merger of two rural hospitals. The two sites operate
today as Headwaters – Orangeville, a 108-bed acute care facility, and
Headwaters-Shelburne, a 33-bed chronic care hospital.
Inpatient services at Headwaters-Orangeville include anaesthesia, general
surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics and laboratory/pathology.
Outpatient services include clinics for breast feeding, cardiac wellness,
chiropody, diabetes education, hemodialysis, holter monitoring, oncology,
orthopaedics, plastics and respiratory therapy. Headwaters’ Emergency Department
offers 24-hour coverage.
The Headwaters-Shelburne site offers inpatient services in slow stream
rehabilitation, functional evaluation/medical assessment, palliative care and
respite continuing care. Outpatient services include chiropody, diabetes
education, diagnostic imaging, laboratory, medical clinics, nutritional
counselling, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech-language pathology.
The medical community
associated with Headwaters Health Care Centre includes 39 Family Practice
and Emergency Medicine practitioners; 21 local consulting specialists
covering anaesthesia, diagnostic imaging, general surgery, internal
medicine, obstetrics/gynaecology, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, paediatrics and pathology;
and 17 visiting consulting specialists providing services in dermatology, diabetology, endocrinology, neurology, nephrology, oncology, ophthalmology,
orthopaedics, peripheral vascular, plastics and urology.
Headwaters-Orangeville
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Headwaters Health Care Centre - Orangeville |
Headwaters-Orangeville is a
state-of-the-art Level C Community Hospital opened in May 1997. It has been
recognized for its design, receiving the Ontario Architectural Association
design award in 2000, and for its services receiving the 3-M Health care
Quality Team Award in 1999, and a full three-year accreditation in 2003.
Headwaters-Orangeville was
the first hospital in North America to operate a totally digital diagnostic
imaging system. In January 2000, diagnostic procedures were enhanced with
the addition of a CT-Scanner. Video-conferencing linkages permit images to
be transmitted internally to other departments, externally to community
physicians and to tertiary care teaching centers.
The NORTH Telehealth
Network, launched in March 1998, provides continuing health education,
patient education and specialist consultations using two-way television.
Headwaters’ partners that
offer patients in Greater Dufferin area extended and specialized care
include:
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William Osler Health Centre (Brampton):
orthopaedics, urology, ophthalmology
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Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health
Science Centre (Toronto): multiple trauma, vascular surgery, high risk
pregnancy
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The Credit Valley Hospital
(Mississauga): nephrology, oncology, plastics, endocrinology, peripheral
vascular
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St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto):
ophthalmology, neurosurgery, multiple trauma
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Toronto Hospital (Toronto):
cardiovascular surgery, coronary angiography
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Sick Children’s Hospital (Toronto):
paediatric subspecialties
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Grand River Hospital (Kitchener):
neurology
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Cambridge Memorial Hospital: Associate
Base Hospital
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Grey Bruce Health Services: pacemaker
insertion and rehabilitation
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Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto): high
risk pregnancy, neonatology
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Homewood Health Centre (Guelph):
psychiatry
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Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre:
psychiatry
Equally important are the
community partners who support a wide range of services including retirement
and seniors’ centers, child and family services, hospice and palliative care
and victim services:
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Avalon Retirement Centre
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Caledon Community Services
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Canadian Diabetes Association
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Cardiac care Network
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Community Care Access Centres:
Wellington-Dufferin and Peel
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Dufferin Association for Community
Living
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Dufferin Oaks Home for Senior Citizens
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Greater Dufferin area Victims Services
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Dufferin Child and Family Services
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Dufferin County Social Services
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Hospital In-Common Laboratory
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Hospice Caledon
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Hospice Dufferin
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King Nursing Home
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M.O.R.E.
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Shelburne Retirement Centre
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Victorian Order of Nurses
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Wellington-Dufferin Community Mental
Health Services
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Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public
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Headwater's Family
Practice Clinic |
Headwaters’ Highlands
Family Practice Clinic
Addressing the critical need to attract physicians to theGreater Dufferin
area, Headwaters Health Care Centre has constructed a Family Practice Clinic
adjacent to its Orangeville site.
The new Clinic will support
up to ten physicians, providing a turnkey operation in a supportive group
practice environment; currently there are vacancies for four physicians.
The Highlands Family
Practice Clinic features competitive rents, a fully integrated IT system,
all furniture and equipment and fully equipped examination rooms. A clinic
manager and a management committee of physicians handle day-to-day
activities of the clinic.
Greater Dufferin Area Services
In addition to the Headwaters-associated clinic, Orangeville and the
surrounding Greater Dufferin area is served by a number of clinics, group
practices and long term care facilities and laboratories:
Orangeville Family Medical Centre
is a medical clinic comprising five Family Physicians working as a
group in Downtown Orangeville.
It opened in October 1998 with a fully computerized Electronic Medical
Record (EMR) system. Features include 18 examination rooms each with a
computer terminal, a shared waiting room with seating for about 50 persons,
shared common space (e.g. doctors’ lounge) and an area for minor surgical
procedures. Physicians have RPNs working alongside them. All medical
information is compiled in the computer records of each patient; doctors
enter data mostly through dictation.
The Fifth Avenue Clinic
is a medical clinic with offices for seven physicians, both family
practitioners and specialists, who share common space and facilities. The
Clinic is about 12 years old, with an onsite pharmacy and an active
after-hours clinic serving the Orangeville area.
Leadership through
Partnership – a
community working together
Leadership and innovation
are watchwords at Headwaters Health Care Centre. These are best illustrated
by the partnerships that the organization maintains to ensure patients have
access to the best possible care and that our professional community is
provided with continuing academic, research and leadership development
programs.
Long term care facilities include Dufferin Oaks, and Shelburne Residence,
both in Shelburne; the Avalon Retirement Centre, Bethsaida Retirement Home
and Baywinds Retirement Centre, all in Orangeville.
Mel Lloyd Clinic
Over 400 sq. ft. on the lower lever of the Former Dufferin Oaks building,
now the Mel Lloyd Clinic, has been redeveloped for medical offices, with 3
Family Practice physicians and a Nurse Practitioner working as a Family
Health Team, as part of a group practice, or as a
satellite to the new Headwaters Clinic in Orangeville. Shelburne has a
population of over 4,000 people, with a significant seniors population, The
site is adjacent to Dufferin Oaks, a 160 bed LTC facility. In addition,
there is another private LTC facility in Shelburne, and the Headwaters
Shelburne facility of Headwaters Health Care Centre is operated as a chronic
care facility
Laboratory services include Hospitals In-common Laboratories, Canadian Medical
Laboratories and Dynacare Laboratories, all in Orangeville.
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