Our People

Employees (unionized and non-unionized): 23,400+
Licensed physicians in Nova Scotia*: 2,287
   Physicians with a registered specialty (not family medicine): 1,175
   Physicians whose registered specialty is family medicine: 1,112
Medical students in Nova Scotia*: 465
Learners: 5,500+
Volunteers: 7,000
Patient/Family Advisors: 195
*College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia

Our Resources

Annual Budget: $ 2.3 billion

Our Places

Speciality Hospital: 1
Regional Hospitals: 9
Community and other locations (clinical, support and administrative): approx. 135
Collaborative Emergency Centres: 8

Foundations and Auxiliaries

Foundations: 41
Auxiliaries: 33
Funding from Foundations and Auxiliaries to buy capital assets: $14.3 million

Community Health Boards

Community health boards: 37
Number of wellness funds supported through community health boards: 429
Monetary value of wellness funds granted: $685,501.32

Care Delivery

Beds (staffed and in operation): 3,113
Inpatient days: 1,062,405
Emergency visits: 579,807
Operating room surgeries: 68,833
Births (at NSHA facilities): 3,453
Outpatient visits: 4,187,094
Diagnostic imaging exams: 1,038,967
Virtual care appointments: 9,509
Patient encounters supported by language interpretation: 10, 765

Mental Health & Addictions

Mental Health and Addictions outpatient visits*: 378,373
Mental Health and Addictions clients: 46,085
Inpatient discharges: 5,036
*Includes Crisis response services in emergency departments across the province, Mental Health Mobile Crisis Team 24-hour telephone crisis line and mobile service and visits to Psychiatric Emergency Services at the QEII emergency department.

Continuing Care

Home care clients: 30,881
Hours of home support delivered to Continuing Care clients: 2,933,955
Number of in-home nursing visits: 947,408
People placed in long-term care facilities: 3,230

Primary Health Care

Number of primary care visits with a family physician or nurse practitioner (2018-19): 3,965,162
Number of people who found a primary care provider since Nov. 2016 (as of Mar. 31, 2019): 152,233
Number of people registered with Need a Family Practice (as of Mar. 31, 2019): 46,051
Number of collaborative family practice teams in Nova Scotia: 86
Number of chronic disease management and wellness teams: 41

Cancer Care

Number of Nova Scotians who had colon cancer prevented - they had no warning signs; pre-cancers were found and removed as a result of the colon cancer home screening test: 941
Number of cancer patients cared for in a cancer centre or community cancer clinic: 20,173
Number of public/patient advisors involved in cancer system improvement: 794

Public Health

Notifiable disease notifications: more than 8,000
Number of enhanced home visits*: 8,375
Number of births screened for post-partum: 7,008
Based on results of post-partum screening, number of births recommended for in-depth assessment: 4,674
Number of vaccines administered via the school-based immunization program across the province. This includes immunizations for meningitis, HPV and Hepatitis B: 46,048
*Enhanced Home Visiting provides additional support to families facing challenges. It focuses on supporting parents, promoting a healthy parent-child relationship, fostering healthy childhood development and linking families with community resources that further enhance the opportunities for healthy growth and development of the child and family.

Research

Active research projects on Mar. 31, 2019: 1,336
New research projects initiated in 2019: 376
Number of interdisciplinary research projects initiated within 2018-19: 110
Number of active interdisciplinary research projects as of Mar. 31, 2019: 353