Health Care
St. Joseph's General Hospital (SJGH) is located in Comox, but serves as the primary hospital for the Comox Valley and surrounding communities from Bowser to Oyster River. SJGH provides 235 beds, with 110 for acute care and 125 for complex care.
SJGH was founded by four nuns from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto in 1913, to provide the needed health care to the settlers of the Comox Valley and its active logging industry. Initially it had room for only 10 patients, but it has continually increased its bed count throughout the years to 235 beds, in addition to expanding its services. Currently SJGH falls under the Vancouver Island Health Authority, but still maintains its Christian and Catholic principles through its current board of directors, of "commitment, compassion, competence, excellence, human dignity, integrity, spirituality, subsidiarity and social responsibility while caring for the whole person".
Today SJGH provides many specialist services including Anesthesiology, Dermatology, General Surgery, Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Palliative Care, Pathology, Psychiatry, Radiology, and Urology.
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