Chatham-Kent Health Alliance

Name :

Chatham-Kent Health Alliance

Address  :

P.O. Box 2030
80 Grand Avenue West

Town  :

Chatham

State  :

Ontario

Country  :

CANADA

Post Code:

N7M 5L9

Phone  :

519 352 6400

Web URL  :


Description

About Us
Delivering quality care to residents of ChathamKent South Lambton and Walpole Island ChathamKent Health Alliance is a 300bed community hospital system equipped with stateoftheart facilities and technologies

Formed in 1998 CKHA is committed to core service excellence topflight operational performance and to becoming a hospital of choice in Southwestern Ontario CKHA is comprised of 1300 compassionate staff physicians and volunteers who care for thousands of inpatients outpatients and emergency patients annually

We are a proud partnership of three hospital corporations located on campuses in Chatham and Wallaceburg
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