Tracadie Hospital
Location
400 Des Hospitalières Street
P.O. Box 3180, Main Station
Tracadie, New Brunswick E1X 1G5
Contact
L’hôpital compte 59 lits. Il offre des :
- Services d’urgence;
- Services de médecine générale, réadaptation et soins palliatifs;
- Services de dialyse;
- Services diagnostiques et thérapeutiques;
- Soins ambulatoires et de nombreux services spécialisés;
- Soins de longue durée.
- Cafeteria that seats 60 people for visitors and employees;
- Three meals a day, seven days a week, for patients, and two meals a day for visitors and employees;
- Healthy menu;
- Catering service.
Hours of operation :
• Monday to Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
• Saturday and Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The lazaretto opened its doors in 1849 to take in lepers when the Sheldrake Island lazaretto was moved from the Miramichi region to Tracadie.
On September 29, 1868, the Religious Hospitallers of Saint-Joseph settled in Tracadie to care for the lepers.
In 1897, thanks to the hard work of the community and the Religious Hospitallers, the people of Tracadie and the surrounding area had a 30-bed hospital. It was the first French-language hospital in the Maritimes.
On January 6, 1943, fire destroyed the hospital. Only three years later, in 1946, the Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Joseph de Tracadie, which had 80 beds at the time, admitted its first patient. An adjacent wing for leprosy care was built and remained open until 1965.
From 1947 to 1973, the hospital was recognized as a teaching institution for the preparation and training of nurses and nursing assistants.
In 1951, the Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Joseph de Tracadie was accredited in accordance with the standards of the Canadian Council on Hospital Accreditation.
In 1977, the hospital became the Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Joseph de Tracadie Inc. The Religious Hospitallers remained the owners. They agreed to bequeath their residential quarters to the hospital to allow for its expansion.
Construction of the current hospital began on August 31, 1986, and it was officially opened on June 9, 1991. Today, Tracadie Hospital still provides inpatient services in a 59-bed facility along with basic general services in medicine, palliative care, long-term care and dialysis. An emergency department is available at all times. The hospital also offers diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, as well as support and ambulatory care.
