Short-Stay Beds
- Twelve new (sub-acute) short-stay beds for patients who need observation but not in an acute care setting; stays up to 72 hours.
- This includes patients with exacerbated COPD, post-surgery wound care requiring IV antibiotics, and blood transfusion.
New Long-Term Care Home
- Taigh Solas, the current 22-bed licensed community long-term care unit, will be replaced with a new 60-bed long-term care home.
New Laundry Centre
- A new laundry centre to serve CBRM hospitals and health centres will be built to replace the existing facility.
- It will have modern equipment and improved working conditions.
– Victor Power, Senior Project Superintendent at PCL Constructors
- Space for a collaborative family care teams (doctors, nurse practitioners, social workers, dieticians, and other health professionals)
- Space for urgent care clinics for after-hours access
- More space for ambulatory care clinics to allow for specialty clinics
- Continuing care staff in one location (currently in a separate building)
- New work stations for physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and nutrition counselling
- Expanded dialysis service (going from 8 to 12 treatment stations)
- New consultation rooms for counselling, community support teams, and wellness clinics
- New team work stations for public health services with consultation and clinic rooms
- Increased space for mental health and addictions programs
- Expansion of chronic disease management space to include a new classroom and a new nourishment room
- Diagnostic imaging (x-ray and ultrasound), blood collection, and cardiac services