The Lakes District Hospital and Health Centre serves a population of 10,000 from Burns Lake and surrounding communities. Its emergency department averages 12,000 visits per year.
The Lakes District Hospital and Health Centre provides:
- 13 acute care beds
- 1 isolation room
- 1 palliative care room
- 1 labour/delivery/recovery suite
- Emergency services
- Diagnostic imaging
- Laboratory
- Provision for public health, mental health and addictions, and home and community care service, as well as local physician and emergency services
- Pharmacy
- Rehabilitation services
- Administrative offices
- Food services;
- Logistical services; and
- A procedure space will be included that will be large enough to provide future flexibility for the development of operating room space.