SERHA employs approximately 5000 individuals from a variety of medical and non-medical groups.

These include staff directly involved with health care delivery, for example nurses, doctors, technologists, pharmacists, health record administrators, attendants and public health inspectors. There are other staff members who work to ensure that the health care delivery system functions at an optimal level and give support to those charged with the direct delivery of health care. These include among others the Management Information staff, maintenance teams, Human Resource, administrative and accounting staff.

Health Care is delivered through a network of 10 hospitals and 89 Health Centres. Five of the ten hospitals within the region are also specialist or National Referral Hospitals. Some of these institutions also accept patients referred from other Caribbean islands. The hospitals in Kingston and St Andrew are:

• Kingston Public Hospital – National Referral Hospital
• Bustamante Hospital for Children - Specialist Children’s Hospital
• National Chest Hospital - Specialist Cardio-thoracic Hospital
• Bellevue Hospital - Specialist Psychiatric Hospital
• Hope Institute - Specialist Cancer Centre
• Sir John Golding Hospital - Specialist Rehabilitation Centre

In St. Catherine there are:

• Spanish Town Hospital - General Hospital
• Linstead Hospital - General Hospital

The 89 Health Centres are spread across the three Parishes and are easily located because they are named for the community in which they are found.
The work of Health Centres is coordinated at a local level from the respective Parish Health Departments. The Kingston and St Andrew Health Department, located on Marescaux Road, oversees 45 Health Centres in these two parishes. The St Catherine Health Department, located on Burke Road adjacent to the Spanish Town Hospital governs the function of the 27 Health Centres within this Parish and the St Thomas Health Department, located on Lysonns Road within the same compound of the Princess Margaret Hospital, is responsible for the 17 Health Centres within this Parish.

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