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Stanton Territorial Hospital

August 25, 2011
Yellowknife, NWT

The first Stanton Territorial Hospital was built in the 1940s. In 1984, the Federal government contributed more than $14.7 million over four years towards the construction of the current hospital building, which opened in 1988.

Stanton Territorial Hospital is currently a 100-bed acute care facility employing 507 staff. It is the largest accredited facility in the territories serving as the main health care facility for about 45,000 residents of the Northwest Territorires and western Nunavut. It provides interpretation services in all 11 official languages of the Northwest Territories.

Stanton Territorial Hospital is operated by the Stanton Territorial Health Authority, which also has four patient clinics in the Yellowknife area. In addition to providing general surgery, gynecology, oncology, orthopedaedics, pediatrics, urology and fertility treatments, the Stanton Medical Clinic and the Stanton Medical Centre also provide services such as audiology, speech-language pathology and ear, nose and throat care, dermatology, internal medicine, rheumatology, neurology and diabetes education. A separate clinic in Yellowknife has a Mental Health Clinic, and also provides ophthalmology treatments.

Family physicians and local and visiting specialists offer a wide array of medical specializations through the hospital. Stanton Territorial Hospital also arranges travelling clinics and utilizes telemedicine to provide services, as well as health promotion programs, to communities across the Northwest Territories.

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