Moncton Hospital

Moncton Hospital is a Canadian hospital in Moncton, New Brunswick.

History

Current

TThe Moncton City Hospital has approximately 400 active treatment beds^[1] and is affiliated with Dalhousie University Medical School. It is presently home to the Northumberland family medicine residency training program and will soon be a major site for third and fourth year clinical training for medical students in the Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick Program. The hospital also hosts UNB degree programs in nursing and medical x-ray technology and professional internships in fields such as dietetics. Specialized medical services at the hospital include neurosurgery, peripheral and neuro-interventional radiology, vascular surgery, thoracic surgery, orthopedics, trauma, burn unit, medical oncology, neonatal intensive care and adolescent psychiatry. A $48 million expansion to the hospital was completed in 2009 and contains a new laboratory, ambulatory care centre and provincial level 2 trauma centre.^[2] The Moncton City Hospital is managed by the Horizon Health Network (Formerly the South East Regional Health Authority). Moncton Hospital operates as a tertiary care referral hospital and specializes in neurosurgery and trauma care services.

Other services include:

• trauma/emergency medicine
• neonatal intensive care
• pediatric intensive care
• medical/surgical intensive care
• coronary intensive care (referral to Saint John Regional Hospital
• burn unit (only one in New Brunswick)
• neurosciences
• child/adolescent psychiatry unit (only one in New Brunswick)

Operated by Horizon Health Network, formerly by South East Regional Health Authority, Moncton Hospital traces its history to 1895.^[3]

Moncton Hospital is also a teaching hospital for the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia.

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