Overview
- The province announced a two-year renovation at Royal University Hospital that will raise adult ICU capacity from 19 to 26 beds through a $17 million project.
- Construction is set to start this week and will be staged so current intensive care teams can keep working together on the third floor.
- The final layout creates two 13-bed subunits, one in the former neonatal ICU and another in the space now used for pediatric intensive care.
- Each bed will sit in a single, negative-pressure room with a door and dedicated family space, which helps block airborne spread and gives patients privacy.
- The nurses’ union says it has seen no plan to staff the added beds, and the health minister says recruiting and training are underway to safely open them.