The Bermuda Hospitals Board operates the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, located in Paget Parish, and the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute, located in Devonshire Parish. [1]
Dr Michael Richmond is the chief of staff.
It logged 430 incidents that resulted in harm to patients between March 28, 2011 and December 31, 2015. 14 patients died unexpectedly, 5 needed life-saving treatment and 9 suffered permanent harm. There were about 6,000 hospital admissions, 30,000 emergency department attendances and 6,300 outpatient procedures in 2017. [2]
It started using a new electronic medical records system, called PEARL, in October 2022. [3]
In October 2022 surgeons complained that supplies of specialist equipment used in the operating room of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital were constantly at risk of running out. [4]
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