Building Tomorrow
Northside Health Complex
Opened in 1954, Northside General Hospital is a community hospital that serves North Sydney, Sydney Mines, and surrounding areas. It currently has 45 acute care beds, 14 licensed transitional long-term care beds, and 22 beds on Taigh Solas, a licensed community long-term care unit.
As part of the CBRM Health Care Redevelopment Project, Northside residents will have a new, modern health centre and a 60-bed long-term care home. Both will be built in the Northside Business Park, along with a new laundry centre. The project also includes 12 (sub-acute) short-stay beds.
Northside Health Complex
Other Improvements Include
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
Northside Health Complex
The New Health Centre Will Include
- 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
Northside Health Complex
Latest Updates
Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister John Lohr and Halifax MP Andy Fillmore, on behalf of Sean Fraser, federal Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, announced today, February 23, the locations of new public housing units in Halifax Regional Municipality and 25 new modular housing units that will be installed in eight communities across the province by end of March.
The Nova Scotia government has pledged another $3 million to attract and retain skilled newcomers. The money will go towards settlement support, helping provide health and skilled trades workers with enhanced English language training, settlement assistance, support for growing the francophone population and community settlement programs.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a long walk through the snow in a Membertou neighbourhood —but filled with thoughts of federal government plans to spur new home construction in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
Applications are now open for NSCC programs – and if you enroll in Sydney – you’ll be a part of the first ever classes to attend the new waterfront campus. We talk about how the experience will differ from the Marconi Campus.