Canton-Potsdam Hospital

St. Lawrence Health (“SLH”) recently affiliated with Rochester Regional Health to further their joint mission to enhance lives and preserve health by providing access to the highest quality and most affordable care, delivered with kindness, integrity, and respect. 

Located on the northern border of New York State, St. Lawrence County is nestled between the Adirondack Mountains and the St. Lawrence River Valley.

St. Lawrence Health is comprised of three hospitals:

• Canton-Potsdam Hospital – a 94-bed community healthcare facility providing services in emergency medicine, acute care, hospitalist and critical care, a Level III Trauma Center, and 25 different specialties including outpatient health service, orthopedics and sports medicine, and a cancer center.
• Massena Hospital – a 25-bed acute care facility providing medical, surgical, labor & delivery, pediatrics, and emergency services.
• Gouverneur Hospital – a 25-bed critical access hospital.

Our communities offer many activities to meet a variety of interests. Proximity to both the St. Lawrence River and the Adirondack Mountains offers easy access to many outdoor activities such as hiking, boating, fishing, skiing, and golfing. The two state and two private universities (SUNY – Potsdam which includes Crane School of Music, Clarkson University, St. Lawrence University, and SUNY – Canton) offer high-quality theatrical and musical performances. A quick drive brings you to two world-class Canadian cities Ottawa, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec, as well as Lake Placid, NY which was home to two Winter Olympics.

CPH Services

• Primary care clinics (Brasher Falls, Canton, Gouverneur, Norfolk, and Potsdam)
• Specialty care clinics (Canton, Gouverneur, Massena, and Potsdam)
• After-hours clinic (Canton)
• Urgent care clinic (Potsdam)
• Outpatient behavior health
• 24/7 hospitalist program
• Chemical dependency rehabilitation and outpatient care
• Sleep therapy, respiratory therapy, echocardiography, telemedicine, and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation
• Outpatient physical rehabilitation offered in Brasher Falls, Canton, and Potsdam
• Speech and occupational therapies
• Outpatient laboratory and imaging services offered in Potsdam and Canton
• The Center for Cancer Care has a door-less radiation treatment design, a linear accelerator with IMRT, and infusion area
• Acute, inpatient care
• Critical care
• Distinct Observation Unit
• In-patient and ambulatory surgery
• Maternity
• Emergency services
• Adult, Level III trauma care

Medical Staff

Our diverse, talented, and growing medical staff includes specialists in: allergy and immunology, addiction medicine, anesthesiology, behavioral health, cardiology, dermatology, diagnostic imaging, emergency medicine, endocrinology, family practice, gastroenterology, general surgery, infectious diseases, inpatient care, internal medicine,  neurology, medical and radiation oncology, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, optometry, oral surgery, orthopedic surgery and sports medicine, otolaryngology, pain management, pathology, physiatry, pediatrics, podiatry, psychiatry, pulmonology, rheumatology, trauma surgery, urogynecology, and urology. 

Tertiary Referrals

Syracuse          (142 miles southwest of Potsdam, 107 miles southwest of Gouverneur)

Burlington       (117 miles east of Potsdam, 150 miles east of Gouverneur)

Growth

Guided by strategic, medical staff, and master facilities plans, SLH hospitals have achieved incredible success when so many other small and rural hospitals struggle to survive.  Resulting, consistent financial surpluses have funded a series of new construction and renovation projects designed to accommodate our growth in providers and patients and to upgrade existing facilities.

If you are interested in the prospect of a comfortable and active lifestyle, a safe family-oriented community with great schools, and the ability to have a satisfying career with an opportunity for professional growth, St. Lawrence Health may be for you.