IWK Health Centre | |
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Geography | |
Location |
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Coordinates | 44°38′16″N 63°35′03″W / 44.637639°N 63.58425°W |
Organization | |
Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine |
Services | |
Emergency department | Tertiary trauma center |
Speciality | Pediatric, maternity |
Helipad | TC LID: CIW2 |
History | |
Opened | 1909 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
IWK Health is a major women's and children's (pediatric) hospital and trauma centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia that provides care to maritime youth, children and women from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and beyond. The IWK is the largest facility in Atlantic Canada caring for children, youth and adolescents, and is the only Level 1 pediatric trauma centre east of Quebec.