CBRM Healthcare Redevelopment

Features:

New Health Centre

• Will replace New Waterford Consolidated Hospital, strengthening primary health services in the area.
• Incorporates space for collaborative family care teams (doctors, nurse practitioners, social workers, dietitians, and other health professionals).
• Incorporates space for urgent care clinics for after-hours access and mental health and addictions programs.
• New ambulatory care clinic space.
• Spaces for community Foodbank and community garden to operate from.
• Continuing care staff in one location.
• New consultation rooms for physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and nutrition counselling.
• New consultation rooms for counselling, community support teams, and wellness clinics.
• New teamwork stations for public health services with clinic/consult rooms.

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

• Will replace 24-bed Waterford Heights with new 60-bed long-term care home.

New school for grades 6-12

• Breton Education Centre was built in 1971 and consultation determined replacing the school was the best option.
• New school will include gyms to ensure Coal Bowl continues and a new theatre.
• The outdoor sports fields and recreation spaces have been relocated.

New Community Wellness Centre

• To complement the community hub model, a Community Wellness Centre will also be built to provide ‘community space’ to support social, cultural, and recreational activities.
• It will replace the community space that was lost when the Carmel Centre closed in 2019.
• It will provide accessible and appropriate multi-purpose/multi-use, community space that can be used for: seniors’ programs; exercise, music and art programs; community organization meetings; support groups; parent/family education & learning; child and youth development and more.

New recreation facilities

• To make way for the construction of the new, modern community hub, some recreation facilities in New Waterford were rebuilt and relocated.
• The artificial soccer field, tennis courts, and three buildings (washrooms and storage) on the Breton Education Centre site have been moved to MacKinnon Field.
• The grass soccer field at MacKinnon Field was moved to nearby Colliery Lands Park.