DID YOU KNOW?

Last year, the Emergency Medical Service had to send 343 patients off San Juan Island by air, ferry, or sheriff’s boat* because they needed diagnostic evaluation or care that could not be provided on island.

In just one month, June, 2007, during which a typical number of patients visited the Medical Center, 247 patients** were referred for off-island procedures and consultations in specialties including orthopedics, OB/GYN, MRI, screening colonoscopies, general surgery, pain management, CAT scans, cardiac diagnostics and care, ophthalmology and chemotherapy.

  *Source: San Juan Island EMS
**Source: Inter Island Medical Center