IMPORTANT NOTICE - New Robie Street entrance to the Emergency Department
The nationally accredited QEII Emergency & Trauma Centre is located at the Halifax Infirmary and is the only resource of its kind in Atlantic Canada that receives and cares for thousands of critically injured patients, via ground or air ambulance.
As one of the busiest Emergency & Trauma facilities in Eastern Canada, the Centre accommodates 55,000 - 70,000 patient visits per year; it was originally designed to handle 35,000 patient visits annually. The Centre is overflowing. The Trauma Room is only large enough to care for two patients at a time, and due to lack of space, severely injured patients must often be fitted into corridors and adjacent areas.
The Centre must be expanded and enhanced to improve patient care and to give medical teams the proper environment for them to do their life-saving work. The funding of this expansion will be a partnership between the QEII Foundation and the Department of Health.
April 2008
A new drive through ambulance bay will be built, with a focus on reconfiguring ambulance traffic flow. The new facility will also offer 39 single rooms, with capacity to surge to 54 beds as demand indicates, along with an increase of clinical staff.
Atlantic Canadians deserve to be treated in a modern, well-equipped, appropriate critical care facility. Construction began in fall 2007, with completion anticipated for spring 2009. This expansion will allow the Emergency & Trauma Centre at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre to be a centre of excellence in emergency medicine.
View electronic images of the expansion:
Emergency Expansion Floor Plan (pdf)
Emergency Expansion Site Plan (pdf)
Emergency Expansion Exterior (pdf)