Marcia Leard, Clinical Leader in Ambulatory Care, left, sits with Priscilla Pollock, a patient using the VAC wound therapy system. Priscilla is one of over 12,000 Islanders who visited the Ambulatory Care Unit at Prince County Hospital last year (not including the oncology unit).
This year, as part of the Vital Signs Annual Equipment Campaign Ambulatory Care needs $241,300 worth of equipment, including key items such as ECG carts, IV pumps, colonoscopes and a gastroscope.
Since the new Prince County Hospital opened 5 years ago, the number of procedures performed in Ambulatory Care has steadily risen. This year improvements to the much used equipment in Ambulatory Care are …a step in the right direction.
