Ketchikan General Hospital is an accredited acute and long-term care facility providing a variety of services including comprehensive trauma, inpatient (46 beds), outpatient, and home health services and a long-term care facility (46 beds).
Isolated on an island 680 air miles from Seattle, Washington, Ketchikan General Hospital is more self-reliant than most small rural hospitals found in the "lower 48." Since 1923 PeaceHealth has provided health care in southern southeast Alaska. Among the services available at Ketchikan General are home health, physical and occupational therapy, an accredited cancer care program, up-to-date technology and medical equipment, an emergency physician and staff on site 24 hours a day, a phase II cardiac rehabilitation program, and diabetes education.