Nova Scotia Health Authority is enhancing after-hours access and safety at Victoria County Memorial Hospital in Baddeck. A new camera and intercom system has been installed at the hospital’s main entrance to allow safe after-hours access for visitors to the site as well as patients coming to the emergency department.
Survey results released Wednesday by Nova Scotia Health Authority show that 98.8 per cent of Nova Scotia cancer patients are highly satisfied with their cancer care, rating their overall quality of care as excellent, very good or good.
Renovating a hospital is not a simple task; there are many moving pieces that must be carefully considered in addition to the task of planning and designing a space that will function well now and 20 years from now.
The addition of a new elevator at South Shore Regional Hospital will improve care, comfort and privacy for patients. Installation of the elevator is scheduled to begin Aug. 2 and is expected to take 10 months.
Nova Scotia Health Authority’s Cape Breton Cancer Centre Social Work team wants to talk with patients who received Employment Insurance Sick Benefits as a result of their cancer diagnosis.
NSHA is in the process of contacting a total of 337 people whose personal health information was inappropriately accessed in two separate and unrelated incidents.
