ACCESSING THE FIRESTONE CLINIC

The Firestone Institute provides comprehensive outpatient and inpatient respiratory care as the regional respiratory service for the City of Hamilton and the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integrated Network (LHIN).

FIRH has a unique Chest Programme that encompasses respiratory medicine together with affiliated head-and-neck and thoracic surgery services; all are located on one site.

The Institute is supported by state-of-the-art pulmonary function and sleep laboratories, an induced sputum analysis laboratory, an aerosol laboratory, a gastrointestinal motility laboratory, the departments of diagnostic imaging, critical care and endoscopy, and a regional laboratory-medicine programme.

In 2010 / 2011, 41 physicians saw 38,800 patients, totalling 63,160 visits and procedures.  Additional tests not connected to these physicians, but conducted in the FIRH labs, totalled an additional 23,340 procedures.  Therefore, the total number of procedures and visits captured at FIRH was 86,504.

Firestone Clinic
St. Joseph's Healthcare
50 Charlton Avenue East
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8N 4A6

905.522.1155 x36000

Please note that this is the main number which will ask you to leave a message. All calls will be retrieved promptly and the message is kept confidential.

Leadership

Dr. Stewart Pugsley
Clinical Director

Jackie Barrett
Administrative Director

Dianne Husbands
Clinic Nurse Manager

If you would like to an appointment at the, please call the following:

Firestone Clinic
St. Joseph's Healthcare
50 Charlton Avenue East
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8N 4A6

905.522.1155 x36000

FIRH typically asks that new guests to the clinic get a referral from their family doctor. If this is not possible, please call the main clinic number listed above.

 

If you would like to refer a patient to the clinic, please download the referral form and fax it to us at:

905 - 523 - LUNG (5864)

Firestone Clinic
St. Joseph's Healthcare
50 Charlton Avenue East
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8N 4A6

905.522.1155 x36000

Form to refer a patient for testing or for a consult.

Please call 905-522-1155 using the following extension:

Clinic	x36000
FAX	523-lung
Dr. Allen	x33154
Dr. Cox	x35033
Dr. Drost	x32145
Dr. Greenbaum	x36000
Dr. Higgins	x33960
Dr. Kolb	x35003
Dr. Nair	x34934
Dr. Neighbour	x32145
Dr. McIvor	x34330
Dr. Powles	x34299
Dr. Pugsley	x33491
Dr. Soth	x34935
Dr. Todd	x32260
Dr. Tunks	x34182
Dr. Whitehead	x34182
Dr. Wasserman	x36000
Dr. Ramsdale	x34934
Dr. Sears	x33286

If you are do not know which person to call, please call the Clinic extension 905-522-1155 x36000.