Trelawny Health Services
Falmouth Public General Hospital – Rodney Street, Falmouth
Telephone: 954-3255-50 Fax: 952-4149
The Trelawny Public Health Services provides preventative and curative health care primarily to a population of over 72,500 persons living in the Parish of Trelawny. This accounts for approximately 16% of the total populace of the Western Region.
Our Mission
To provide quality, preventative, promotive, curative and rehabilitative health care that is accessible, acceptable and reliable to the population of the Parish, facilitated by the empowerment of the communities through utilizing inter-sectoral collaboration, supported by suitably qualified and motivated personnel utilizing appropriate technological resources.
General Services Offered
General Services Offered
- Water and Sanitation Monitoring
- Food and Nutrition Monitoring
- Immunization
- Family Health Care
- Prevention and Control of Locally Endemic Diseases
- Prevention and Control of Diarrhea Diseases
- Treatment of common Diseases and Injuries
- Health Education and Promotion
- Dental Health Care
- Mental Health Care
- Provision of Essential Drugs
- Adolescent Healthcare at the designated Adolescent Health Clinics at Falmouth, Duncans and Albert Town
There are three (3) Medical Districts in the parish of Trelawny:
Falmouth District
Boundaries
North – by the sea;
South – by Windsor, Deeside and Liberty by the foot-hills of Cockpit Mountains;
South-East – by Fontabelle and Hampstead;East – by the districts of Spring Hill, Daniel Town and properties of Lottery, Cambridge and Gerradeu;
West – by line of Parish, Wiltshine Housing development, Orange Valley, Orange Hill, Hampden Lands, Cargen, Hampden Estate and Gales Valley.
Health Facilities
Facility Type |
Amount of Facilities |
Name(s)/Location(s) |
Hospital (Type C) |
1 |
Falmouth Hospital |
Infirmary |
1 |
Falmouth Infirmary |
Place of Safety |
1 |
Granville Place of Safety |
Type I Health Centre |
3 |
Bounty Hall
Bunkers Hill
Deeside |
Type II Health Centre |
1 |
Wakefield |
Type IV Health Centre |
1 |
Falmouth |
There are eight (8) Private Practitioners, a Grade III District Medical Officer, and and a Grade I District Medical Officer in the district of Falmouth, however, there are no Family Nurse Practitioner’s.
Duncans District
Boundaries
North – by the sea to the border of St.Ann and Trelawny at Bengal Bridge adjacent to Rio Bueno;
South – an imaginary straight line across the foot-hill of the cockpit mountains from St.Ann border at the Manchester property adjacent to Stewart Town going westwardly, encompassing the properties of Hyde Hall mountains, Colches Pen and the districts of Linton and portions of the Cockpit mountains to the St. James border. Below the foot-hills of this portion of the Cockpit Mountains lie the districts of Haddington, Kinloss, Duanvale, New Forest, Sherwood Content and Cocksheath;
East – by portion of the Rio Bueno and Dornoch Rivers and Stewart town at the St.Ann border;
West – by properties of Fontabelle, Hampstead and ;
Health facilities
Facility Type |
Amount of Facilities |
Name(s)/Location(s) |
Type I Health Centre |
4 |
Rio Bueno
Sayers
Stewart Town
Brampton |
Type II Health Centre |
2 |
Duanvale
Jackson Town |
Type III Health Centre |
1 |
Dewar |
Maternity Centre |
1 |
— |
There is a Grade I District Medical Officer and a Family Nurse Practitioner in the district of Duncans.
Albert Town
Boundaries
North – by the southern foothills of the cockpit mountains of the Duncans and Falmouth districts which run east-west to the St.James border;
South – by rising earth mounds, valleys and stony cliffs to the Manchester and St.Elizabeth borders;
East – by hills of limestone and valleys of red and clayey loams towards the St.Ann border;
West – by stony hills and valleys of mixed loams cheered by the murmur of rippling streams and springs below and within the random dispersions of the Cockpit Mountains, contribute to its peculiar terrain especially around the Burnt Hill, Wait-A-Bit, Spring Garden, Warsop, Troy and Wilson’s Run areas. By and large the entire medical district is vulnerable to landslides and flooding occurs in the Troy and Spring Gardens area.
Health Facilities
Facility Type |
Number of Facilities |
Location(s) |
Community Hospital |
1 |
— |
Type I Health Centre |
4 |
Ulster Spring
Lowe River
Troy
Rock Spring |
Type II Health Centre |
2 |
Warsop
Wait-A-Bit |
Type III Health Centre |
1 |
Albert Town |
There is one (1) Grade II District Medical Officer (DMO), one (1) Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and two (2) Private Practitioners in this district.