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Cape Breton Regional Hospital is a Canadian hospital in Sydney, Nova Scotia.. Operated by the Nova Scotia Health Authority, the Cape Breton Regional Hospital opened in 1995, replacing the Sydney City Hospital (opened in 1916) and St. Rita's Hospital (opened in 1920).
In 1999, Strang moved to Nova Scotia, [2] and continued his career in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he became the Medical Officer of Health of Capital District Health Authority, [4] the largest health authority of the province, later merged into the new Nova Scotia Health Authority. He held the position until 2007. [5]
On March 15, Nova Scotia's first three presumptive cases were detected, all travel-related. Respectively, these cases were a woman in her 60s from Kings County who visited Australia and returned March 8, a man in his late 50s from the Halifax area who attended a conference in California and returned March 13, and a man in his 30s from the Halifax area who travelled "throughout Europe" and ...
A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km 2.
In 1920, the hospital opened the first children’s ward in Nova Scotia, which later became the basis for the IWK Health Centre, a separate children’s hospital. In 1931, the hospital performed the first successful blood transfusion in Nova Scotia, and in 1938 the first electrocardiogram.
In 2015, responsibility for the hospital was transferred from Capital Health to the newly formed Nova Scotia Health Authority or NSHA. In late 2015, an announcement by the NSHA was made stating the Dartmouth General would undergo a $132 million expansion which would see the finishing of the fifth floor, a new four floor wing, new front entrance ...
IWK Health is a major women's and children's (pediatric) hospital and trauma centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia that provides care to maritime youth, children and women from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and beyond. The IWK is the largest facility in Atlantic Canada caring for children, youth and adolescents, and is the only ...
Nova Scotia became the first colony in British North America and in the British Empire to achieve responsible government in January–February 1848 and become self-governing through the efforts of Joseph Howe. [37] Nova Scotia had established representative government in 1758, an achievement later commemorated by the erection of Dingle Tower in ...