Welcome, and thank you for your interest in Pembroke Regional Hospital.
Since 1878, this hospital has served as an anchor for healthcare in the Ottawa Valley. Today, we're a dynamic 124-bed regional centre providing emergency care, surgical services, obstetrics, and comprehensive inpatient and community medicine.
What makes PRH distinctive isn't just our modern facilities or our MRI and expanding diagnostic capabilities. It's that we're a place where physicians genuinely know and support each other. We work to build a culture where colleagues approach challenges with curiosity and collaboration, where evidence-based approaches to both clinical care and workplace relationships matter, and where finding meaning and joy in our work remains central.
The relational nature of practice here runs deep. You'll know your patients over time—not just their diagnoses, but their lives, their families, their stories. You'll know your colleagues the same way. When you face a difficult case or a demanding day, you're working alongside people who understand both the medicine and the human experience of doing this work. That kind of connection sustains us and makes the meaningful parts of practice richer.
Through our Family Medicine Teaching Unit (affiliated with the University of Ottawa since 2008) and our partnerships with medical schools across the country, teaching and learning are woven into our daily practice. Many of our physicians hold academic appointments, and we regularly host residents and students across specialties. This creates an environment where experience meets fresh thinking—where a physician who's been here 30 years works alongside someone fresh from fellowship training, each learning from the other.
Rural generalist practice here offers genuine scope. You'll use skills that might atrophy elsewhere. You'll practice medicine that's broad and varied. You'll be part of a community where nature is minutes away and where raising a family means something different than it does in larger centres.
If you're drawn to medicine that's relational, practiced in community with colleagues who care about the work and about each other, I'd welcome a conversation.
Dr. Declan Rowan
Chief of Staff
Pembroke Regional Hospital