CBRM Healthcare Redevelopment
Location
Northside Business Park, Cape Breton
Project Type
Construction Management Delivery
Infrastructure
Healthcare Centre
Northside
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.
A new, modern health centre and a 60-bed long-term care home will be built in the Northside Business Park, along with a new laundry centre. The new health centre will replace Northside General Hospital, strengthening primary health services in the area.
Budget
Contracts awarded to date: $269,453,612
Features:
New Health Centre
- Space for a collaborative family care team (doctors, nurse practitioners, social workers, dietitians, 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) workstations 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 workstations for public health services with consultation and clinic rooms.
- Increased space for mental health and addictions programs.
- Expansion of chronicle disease management space to include a new classroom and a new nourishment room.
- Diagnostic imaging (x-ray and ultrasound), blood collection, and cardiac services.
- Includes a centre of excellence for Endoscopy.
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.
Milestones
Upcoming
- Mechanical and electrical work is underway.
- Site work tender to be issued in spring 2025.
- Steel stud and interior partitions are underway.
Completed
- All concrete foundations and structural steel framework have been completed.
- Health centre, long-term care home and laundry facility are weather-tight.
Benefits
Patients
- Improved access to care.
Healthcare Professionals
- Providing doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals with a modern place to work with advanced equipment and technology.
- Providing a modern, state-of-the-art facility to help recruit and retain healthcare professionals.
Green
- The project will focus on a healthy indoor environment, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and efficient use of energy, water, and other resources.