Cape Breton Regional Hospital is a leading healthcare facility located in Sydney, Nova Scotia. It provides a wide range of medical services and specialized care to the community, including emergency care, surgical procedures, diagnostic imaging, and specialized treatments. The hospital is known for its dedicated healthcare professionals and state-of-the-art facilities, ensuring that patients receive high-quality and compassionate care.
Visiting hours are from 11:00 am to 8:30 pm, with some exceptions for certain units. Please check with the hospital for specific visiting hours.
You can contact Cape Breton Regional Hospital by calling (902) 567-8000.
Yes, there is parking available at Cape Breton Regional Hospital. Patients and visitors can park in designated areas for a fee.
My husbands room wasn't cleaned. After 3 days in, his sheets still had blood stains on them. Never changed. Lunch trays and supper trays left in room overnight. Empty IV bags left in sink in patient bathroom. Needle paraphernalia left on food tray and not cleaned up. Highly unsanitary for sure.
Posted Date : 21/11/2023
Do not go to the CB Regional unless you are DESPERATE. I went for a very serious medical event (internal bleeding) and was kept waiting for 14 hours! No staff came to check on me while I was bouncing between staying conscious and passing out. I was absolutely disgusted to see the cleaning staff (which are now outsourced to a non-unionized American company) using the same rag they used to clean the bathroom floor on the doorknobs (yuck). Some of the staff were on their phones and making fun of older patients asking for help... there were lots of older folks sitting on stretchers in the hallways of the ED - very upsetting. There was one security officer and he was playing Candy Crush the whole time, didn't leave his chair once. I was placed in the ED beside an elderly man who flatlined and they had to resuscitate (very traumatizing). Ultimately, I finally saw a doctor (the only ED doctor on call - at 5am) who looked like he hadn't slept in two days (but was very professional and nice, thankfully) and he referred me for ultrasound at 8am since there was no one there to do it... so I waited another 3 hours but got the test and was deemed okay because the bleeding stopped and there was no infection. It was a ruptured hemorrhagic ovarian cyst and I lost enough blood to make me borderline anemic, but all was good by this point so I got to go home. I followed up with my family doctor and I've been diagnosed with iron deficiency. That ER visit was horrific, not just for how long it took me to be seen and be taken seriously, but for what I saw in there. There was an elderly lady who fell down the stairs who kept being dismissed by the triage nurse, and was later upgraded to Triage 1 hours later because her heart stopped. There were severely mentally ill people coming in and threatening to kill themselves if they didn't receive help every few hours and shooting up in the bathroom. Paramedics were sticking around babysitting patients they shouldn't be - they should be taking calls. Ambulances were blocked off from the drop-off zone as there was a backlog of at least 4 vehicles I could see. Oh, and this was in April 2023 - when the hospital and province swore up and down that "Things were improving"... really? I also should mention when my grandfather took a widow-maker heart attack in Jan 2021, when my grandmother called the ambulance/EHS, they said it would take 3 hours. They lived a less than a 3 minute walk from the EHS detachment in New Waterford. If my grandmother didn't drive my grandfather to the Regional (a 30 minute drive), he would've easily died. And to add insult to injury, he was told he had to go to Halifax to get his stent so he had to be rushed across the mainland for this procedure. Why doesn't the CB Regional - which caters to a municipality of an aging population high-risk of heart disease - provide this crucial, life-saving service? Blows my mind we can't seem to do anything that is deemed common sense in healthcare. Oh, you need an allergist? Better wait a year then drive to Halifax. A neurologist? Just take a tylenol, it's a 2-year wait anyways at the QEII. I can't make this up - this is REAL. This is what our healthcare and our facilities are like in Cape Breton. And the hospital... oh my god. For a facility that's not even yet 30 years old it's aging worse than spoiled milk. It's filthy, crowded, yet empty in all other departments outside the ER and Addictions. We have outdated machinery, mice infestations, expensive parking that seemingly never seems to go anywhere, and some of the most callous, uncaring medical professionals overseeing suffering patients. This hospital is known for its higher-than-the-national-average death rate and also has one of the highest rates of unnecessary amputations in Canada. Good job team! When the facility was built in the 1990s, all the local hospitals (St. Rita's, Sydney Hospital) were closed and doctors laid off (and most of those doctors moved to other provinces or the US where they could be paid a higher salary as they deserve). Guess it's coming back to bite us as 145,000 Nova Scotians don't have a family doctor. If we had family doctors, we wouldn't be rushing to the Regional in the first place! If you have a serious medical issue, take your chances and drive to Halifax. You might be saving your own life.
Posted Date : 05/11/2023
Once you make it through out patience the service and care improves greatly.
Posted Date : 16/10/2023
Terrible/Health officials need call to action I was at the emergency ward a about 5am with my 11 year son who couldn't hard breath due to a serve cold, and almost chocked from congestion in his bed. He also had fever and headache. He was scared, gasping, were not too far and drove to hospital emergency ward. The we waited for 15 hours for help and got none, YES 15 HOURS WITH SICK SON. People walked looking drunk and laughing got in faster than us. To top id off a man with heart trouble and serve cold also waited and was having heart pains, he left because he was getting not help. Two other people with very sick children were there, just as long as me. If that wasn't bad enough, lots of people left and they still never called anyone in. And then the worst happen a man with his girlfriend only waiting a few hours, started complaining saying he was kick down the door and beat up the nurses. he start yelling and curses. His girlfriend or wife tol him to stop there kids here. Security did nothing by the way, stayed in their office. Then the man got worse and kick something behind me were me and my traumatized sick son was laying. He said I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR F**KING KIDS. poor mother mother beside hold her sick two year old. So so got and gave him a piece of mind, and told him to watch his language people here been waiting longer then him, including myself not to mention my mother dying a few months back at the hospital. Told him have some respect. Some people nodded in agreement. At 15 the hour I called my doctor and I was lucky he answered and actually help. No mother should go through this. Thats my rant, and I know there people with even worse stories. shame, shame on our system here.
Posted Date : 01/10/2023
Disgustingly dirty, nurses rude and ignorant. Too long of a wait in the ER . Shameful
Posted Date : 06/06/2023
Anonymous
Cape Breton Regional Hospital is So Unrealistic and have no care for the people that are there for a reason. I know I tried 2 days before going only because of the wait and they don’t care
At the hospital for my ear infection got registered only to have tge triage nurse say to me in pain and off balance. They are busy and I should just go to Shoppers talk to the pharmacy there for over the counter stuff they could treat me because they are not busy. 🙄 😒
When I said I don’t mind the wait because something is wrong. She now has a sour face and tells me you may have a long wait.
I really don’t get it.. 😕 If you are that unhappy at your job leave.. I an already sick feeling down on myself I do not need your negative attitude.
Anonymous
They sent my sister home after three ambulance trips to the ER in a month and told her not to smoke weed for 6 months and then come back if she still had pain because they believed she had cannabinoid hypermesis. A week later she received lab results which determined she had H. Pylori and required two strong, specific antibiotics to cure, otherwise she could have suffered until the cause was determined and treated. Heard nurses making bets at the nursing station on a regular patient and which drugs they would require. They all laughed about who would lose the bet and have to buy everyone else Coffee.
Anonymous
This Hospital needs alot of help , I’m tired of being in extreme pain for hours until a ambulance service worker gave me morphine . Just enough to take the edge off.
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Anonymous
Doctors and nurses need to stop blaming weed for stomach illnesses before running test. If someone loses 20 lbs in less than 2 weeks and can’t eat or keep water down, with continuous vomiting, please check for an ulcer. They sent the person home with nothing. Until the family doctor gave ulcer medication and the proper diagnosis.
Anonymous
I took a relative who was in the middle of an attack of severe chronic pancreatitis (severe upper right abdominal/back pain, greasy stools, nausea) for treatment. He had been diagnosed with CP 6 years prior by Gastroenterologist Dr. Williams in Halifax). The pain was otherworldly, as is usually the case during a nasty flare-up. After waiting for some 7 hours in the waiting room, him vocalizing each stabbing pain sensation he felt, we were called into the ER for examination. The attending questioned my friend, started an IV and administered an NSAID with Ringers which may as well have been saline for all of the good it had done as an analgesic. This brings me to my point; we are living in an age where an entire generation of trained physicians suffer from a condition best described as ‘opiophobia’, which is to say, the uncontrollable, unmanageable fear of prescribing narcotics to patients who present in pain, even in presentations where the pain is severe and intractable. And while this must surely please that violent organization known as the RCMP as well as the superstitious religious kooks who engineered the OxyContin moral panic some years back, it is of little comfort to those folks who find themselves in real, actual, bona fide pain. To you, the best advice I can offer is to swallow down some anti-emetics, and blend yourself that pentobarbital Slurpee©. Say hi to Elvis for me!