Dartmouth General Hospital
| Dartmouth General Hospital | |
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| Nova Scotia Health Authority | |
Emergency department entrance
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 Location in Nova Scotia
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| Geography | |
| Location | 325 Pleasant Street Dartmouth, Nova Scotia |
| Coordinates | 44°39′14″N 63°32′51″W / 44.6538°N 63.5476°WCoordinates: 44°39′14″N 63°32′51″W / 44.6538°N 63.5476°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university |
Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| History | |
| Founded | 1976 |
The Dartmouth General Hospital is an acute care hospital in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
It is a 24-hour emergency, inpatient medical, surgical and critical care facility that has been operating since 1976. It serves approximately 120,000 people in Dartmouth and the eastern Halifax Regional Municipality. It is located on Pleasant Street (Route 322) across from the Nova Scotia Hospital. It is operated by the Nova Scotia Health Authority.
The construction of the Dartmouth General Hospital was many decades in the making. On Natal Day in 1940, the town of Dartmouth launched fundraising efforts for a 50-bed hospital, which had reportedly been suggested 30 years earlier. A series of public meetings in 1942 were held in support of the project, and the Dartmouth Memorial Hospital Association continued to raise funds.
During the 1970 provincial election, Dartmouth South incumbent MLA I.W. Akerley was defeated by Scott MacNutt, who campaigned on the promise of building a "long overdue" general hospital in Dartmouth. After his election, MacNutt was appointed health minister. In late 1973, a sod-turning ceremony for the new hospital was held. It was officiated over by MacNutt, the newly elected mayor Eileen Stubbs, and tourism minister Glen M. Bagnell. The 109-bed hospital (since expanded) was estimated to cost $5.4 million, but ended up costing about $11 million. The province paid 80 per cent while the City of Dartmouth paid 20 per cent.
When the Dartmouth General Hospital opened in 1976, the old Dartmouth Emergency Hospital was shut down. The new hospital's emergency department began operations on July 7, 1976, while the first inpatient was admitted in March 1977. An intensive care unit was inaugurated in October 1979. Construction of a $5 million expansion to the hospital began in 1980.
In August 1996, the hospital treated the cast and crew of the award-winning Titanic film after an angry crew member laced a serving of lobster chowder with the hallucinogenic drug phencyclidine (PCP).
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