2016-06-30-AMGH Employee Handbook

A WARM WELCOME TO AMGH!
On behalf of the staff, physicians, and volunteers of the Alexandra Marine and General Hospital
(AMGH), We are delighted to welcome you to our organization! This handbook is to help you find
information you need for your journey with AMGH. We encourage you to find out even more about
our mission, vision and values to understand what guides us, as well as the services and programs
we offer by visiting our website www.amgh.ca. We are so very glad you have chosen Alexandra
Marine and General Hospital.
The Alexandra Marine and General Hospital has a proud tradition of more than 100 years of
exceptional care. As a seasonal community that resides in the heart of cottage country on the shores
of Lake Huron, we offer full service healthcare not only to the communities we serve year round, but
to the many visitors who frequent our beautiful area.
The patient and the family experience is at the heart of everything we do. With a focused
commitment to provide compassionate, safe, and high quality care to those we serve, and as the
largest healthcare organization in the County, the Alexandra Marine and General Hospital is home to
a robust, full service acute care hospital and the only inpatient adult psychiatric facility and
withdrawal beds in Huron County. Well beyond the borders of the hospital and as an integrated
health system, we provide community mental health and addiction services including intensive case
management, and crisis response across two counties and outpatient onsite counselling and group
work across five community sites.
AMGH is just one of five rural hospitals across the province to be designated a telestroke site and
the only hospital in the southwest LHIN. The ability to diagnose and immediately treat symptoms
quickly through telehealth access to the expertise of neurologists and cardiologists at large urban
hospitals substantially reduces the devastating impact of stroke. As well, we host a number of
regional programs such as onsite renal dialysis in collaboration with London; the only obstetrics
service in Huron County; and a regional eating disorders program. AMGH is able to offer a
well-rounded range of specialized outpatient services such as orthopedics, internal medicine,
pediatrics, diabetes education, endocrinology, gynecology, and plastic surgery. We are very
fortunate to work collaboratively with a number of exceptional service partners in the southwest to
bring (and keep) healthcare services closer to home and to streamline the delivery of service to
better meet our patient and client needs.
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