BRIEF HISTORY

Our Lady of Grace Hospital located at Breman Asikuma was established as a clinic in the mid-1940s, by Our Lady of Apostles (OLA) sisters and was converted into a hospital in 1953.

In 1972 the daily management of the hospital was handed over to the present spanish congregation “Sisters of charity of St. Anne”. On the 8th of February 2002, the catholic Archbishop of cape coast at that time, His eminence Peter Cardinal K. Appiah Turkson christened the hospital, “Our Lady of Grace Hospital”. It is one of the five (5) Catholic hospitals in the Cape Coast Arch diocese. The hospital is under the supervision of His Grace, Most Rev. Matthias Kobena Nketsiah Archbishop of Cape Coast.
The hospital has a bed capacity of One Hundred and Four (104).It is a district hospital and the only hospital facility in the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa district.
Asikuma district has one hundred and eighty three (183) villages with a population of 93,554.Besides Asikuma district, the facility serves other districts like Ajumako with a population of ninety three thousand three hundred (93,300), part of Agona and Assin districts giving it a total catchment area of about sixty-five square kilometre (65 sq. kilometres) With a catchment population of two hundred and twenty five thousand (225,000).
The hospital act as a referral centre to eight (8) government health centers’, two (2) mission clinics, four (4) maternity homes and fourteen (14) community clinics.

The hospital has gone through major transformations since it inception and it is now seen as a mission and a district hospital serving the people of Asikuma Odoben Brakwa and beyond.

Our Vision

To develop a hospital which will become a centre of excellence in the provision of both general and specialized health services comparable to a regional hospital, with an open administration, using professionally competent, motivated and responsible staff who recognize the dignity of man and use modern equipment, tools and techniques to provide quality, acceptable and affordable health care.

Our Mission

Our Lady of Grace Hospital is mandated to continue christ healing ministry through the provision of quality, affordable, accessible and holistic health care to all clients especially the rural poor and the needy, irrespective of race, ethnicity, age, sex, religion, socio-economic and cultural background.
At the same time developing and instituting programmes which would empower the clients to take charge of their own health

Our Goals

To provide and sustain health care services for the poor, neglected and marginalized segments of the society. The service will seek to empower the people it serves to take ownership of their own individual and collective health needs.

Units

The hospital has the following units:

  • Out patient department (OPD)
  • Pharmacy
  • Eye Clinic
  • Public Health
  • Anti Retroviral Therapy (ART) centre
  • Psychiatry
  • Ear, Nose  and Throat (ENT)
  • Physiotherapy
  • Males Ward
  • Children’s Ward
  • Female’s Ward
  • Emergency Unit
  • Maternity Ward
  • Theatre
  • Diabetic Centre
  • Dental Clinic
  • Sickle Cell clinic
  • Recovery
  • Gynaecologic Clinic
  • Physician Specialist clinic
  • Laboratory
  • X-ray
  • Ultrasound scan
  • Mortuary
  • Administration