Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital

• Fredericton hospital’s ‘ambulance bay’ unit to stop admitting patients, be renovated

  The temporary unit at a Fredericton hospital that was described as a 'garage with curtains' on social media will no longer be used to admit patients by the end of March.

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  Jan 20
  
• Family of man who died in N.B. emergency department sues health authority, nurses

  The family of a 78-year-old New Brunswick man who died two years ago in an emergency department while awaiting care is suing the health authority and two nurses.

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  Aug 23, 2024
  
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• Growing concerns over ER capacity in N.B. and how it’s ‘busting at the seams’

  One Fredericton man said his mother, who died last week following a battle with cancer, waited 16 hours before being seen by a physician during a recent emergency department visit.

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  Jan 3, 2024
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• New Brunswick health authority faces asbestos-related charges linked to hospital

  New Brunswick’s health authority is facing four workplace safety charges for potentially exposing some employees at a Fredericton hospital to asbestos.

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  Sep 19, 2023
• New Brunswick doctors raising concerns over lab services

  Doctors in New Brunswick spoke to the need to keep lab services in hospitals on Tuesday, while the department of health said that no changes are set in stone

  Health

  Jun 27, 2023
• New information results in postponement of coroner’s inquest into ER death

  A coroner's inquest into the death of a patient who died in a New Brunswick emergency room last summer has been postponed, the province announced Friday.

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  May 26, 2023
• Coroner’s inquest launched for N.B. patient who died in hospital ER waiting room

  Donald Darrell Mesheau died in the waiting room at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton, N.B. last summer after waiting hours to be seen.

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  May 23, 2023
• Review conducted after Fredericton hospital ER death leaves many unanswered questions

  The quality process review (QPR) was done and discussed by the Quality Care and Safety of Patients Committee about two weeks after the death occurred in July 2022.

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  Mar 1, 2023
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• New ICU in Fredericton scheduled to open in February

  The new ICU unit is expected to open with at least seven beds on Feb. 14, with the remaining beds contingent upon increased staffing levels.

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  Jan 27, 2023
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• Opposition calls for New Brunswick health minister’s resignation after ER death

  Opposition leaders are calling for the resignation of Health Minister Dorothy Shephard and a coroner's inquest following the death of a patient in an emergency room waiting area.

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  Jul 14, 2022