New Inpatient Beds
- Two, new 36 bed units with larger rooms that will offer privacy and comfort to patients and families.
New Surgical Suites
- Eight new OR suites are being built as part of the new Clinical Services Building at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital and a new cardiac catheterization lab.
Maternal and Newborn Services
- Part of the Clinical Services Building, the new Maternal and Newborn Services unit will provide a more supportive, private and comfortable space for patients, parents and families.
- The unit will maintain key adjacencies to the new operating rooms.
- Changing from two separate units (Labour and Delivery Unit and Postpartum Unit) to Labour Delivery Recovery Postpartum (LDRP) rooms will allow for labour, delivery, recovery and postpartum care to take place in the same hospital room.
– Carl Baillie, P. Eng. – Project Manager, Nova Scotia Lands
- Increase ability to deliver chemotherapy and provide flexibility to adapt to future changes in treatment
- Space to allow for the addition of supports like education, nutrition, psychology, and social work
- Options for holistic care as part of treatment
- Space for volunteer programs
- Audio-visual equipment so patients can virtually include their families in their treatment
- State-of-the-art facilities that will help attract researchers and clinicians to advance cancer care and improve outcomes for patients
- More opportunity for research, innovation, and participation in clinical trials here at home
- Limited disruption of treatment during construction (new build)
- Providing more complete emergency services in the emergency department like diagnostic imaging
- Larger exam and treatment rooms
- Improving layout to allow for easier movement of patients and staff
- Larger ambulance bay
- Increasing use of telemedicine technologies
- Limited disruption of services during construction (new building)
- Moving patients out of the emergency department (ED) and into critical care faster, reducing pressure on the ED
- Larger rooms with more privacy for patients and space for families to sit comfortably at the bedside
- Adding family and support rooms inside the units
- Improving work environment for doctors and staff with the three special care units under one roof
- Improved layout, providing more natural light
- Limited disruption of services during construction (new build)