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A stay in the hospital can be stressful, and we know how much it helps to have the support of family and friends during such a time. So we make it a priority to create as inviting an environment as possible for our patients’ loved ones. Families Patients need their

Bilingual Services provides invaluable support to French-speaking families visiting IWK Health, facilitates interpretation services for families who speak languages other than French and English, and coordinates the translation of patient materials to a variety of languages. Contenu actuellement traduit en français L’IWK a pris l’engagement d’améliorer les services en langue

The IWK is committed to offering a welcoming and inclusive environment where diversity is respected, embraced, and valued in all that we say or do. To ensure that all IWK patients and their families are able to communicate with their physician or health care provider, we provide a professional interpretation

There are many operations and procedures that a child may need that can be completed in a day so that your child can go home in the evening. Your child will recover much better in the familiar surroundings and comfort of their own home. Getting Ready At Home Before anesthesia

IWK Health provides both outpatient and inpatient services. Outpatient services mean that you’ll likely be going home the same day you visit. Examples of outpatient services include x-rays, getting blood drawn, ultrasounds, and other sorts of testing. For outpatient services like this, you won’t be “admitted” to the hospital. On

Fuel the Care We’re very fortunate in Nova Scotia, and Canada, to have publicly-funded health care. This means that many of us will leave the hospital without a single bill to pay (aside from things MSI doesn’t cover, such as private rooms). Of course, visiting the hospital still comes with

prideHealth works to improve access to health services that are safe, coordinated, comprehensive, and culturally appropriate for people who are two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or asexual (members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community). prideHealth is a partnership between the NSH and IWK Health. The prideHealth navigator works with individuals

During your visit to the IWK, there are a lot of people, terms, and acronyms you might hear that you don’t understand. To help, we’ve put together the following lists—these are the professionals and the terms that you might come across. The people you may meet We’d like to introduce

Patient safety and privacy are top priorities at IWK Health. Our goal is to make sure that everyone who receives care from us is kept safe and that we continue to work to prevent unnecessary harm or injury to all patients. We also encourage you and your family to become

Private insurance If you are a resident of a Canadian province and have provincial health care coverage, many IWK Health services are covered by your provincial health plan. However, certain procedures, supplies, or preferred accommodation are not eligible for payment by your provincial health plan—for example, semi-private and private rooms