Southern Regional Health Authority. Carman Memorial Hospital The 28-bed Carman Memorial Hospital, at 350 - 4th Street S.W. on the south edge of town, was built in 1982 and is served by several doctors and a staff of 75. It provides family medicine, a surgical program, pediatrics, a dietitian service, physiotherapy, diagnostics services, an internal medicine consultant and an in-house pharmacy. There are two Medical Clinics in the Town of Carman. One clinic imports doctors from neighboring Winkler, Manitoba. The other clinic has two well established doctors (one being a surgeon) who have served Carman for many years. Emergency services The Carman Fire Department has approximately 25 volunteer firefighters. The department coverage includes both the Town of Carman and the R.M. of Dufferin. Carman Ambulance is one of many ambulance services within the Southern Regional Health Authority. The service area covers about and includes the town of Carman, Elm Creek, Stephenfield, Graysville, Roland, Homewood and Sperling. Media The Valley Leader (newspaper), is published weekly and delivered to every home in Carman on Thursday. It stopped printing in 2020 and since then The Dufferin Standard has started up Up until 1964, a 500' transmitter for CBC Radio was in Carman, Manitoba, at which time a new centralized communications tower at Starbuck, Manitoba was constructed to house CBW-AM, CBW-FM, CBWT, and CBWFT. In February, 1952 a small plane with 3 passengers struck the Carman tower due to heavy fog. None of the passengers survived. Numerous movies have been filmed in and around the Town of Carman, including The Defender (1989), We Were the Mulvaneys (2002), One Week (2008), Make It Happen (2008), The Box Collector (2008), and I Still See You (2018). Notable people Ed Belfour, hockey goalie Jack Carson, actor Robert Carson, actor Faouzia, musician Paul Hiebert, writer Lynette Loeppky, writer Wade Allison, hockey player Frank McKinnon, , sports executive References External links The Official Town of Carman Website Towns in Manitoba Pembina Valley Region