The North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) includes the District Hospital and the Regional Mental Health Centre. NBRHC opened for patient care on January 30, 2011. For the first time ever in Canada, we have an acute care hospital, serving North Bay and district, and a regional specialized mental health centre, providing specialized mental health services to all of northeast Ontario, co-located on the same site.
The North Bay Regional Health Centre provides acute care services to North Bay and its surrounding communities. It works closely with smaller community hospitals in the area-Mattawa, Temiscaming and West Nipissing General Hospitals-and provides specialist services to the area. It is one of four major hospitals serving northeast Ontario, the others being Sault Area Hospital, Timmins and District Hospital and Sudbury's Health Sciences North. HSN also serves as the regional service provider for all of northeast Ontario and provides specialist services in Cardiology, Trauma and Cancer Care Ontario services.
The North Bay Regional Health Centre is committed to providing compassionate, quality, patient-focused care to the people of North Bay and surrounding areas.
As a district referral centre, the North Bay General Hospital has served the families of North Bay and the surrounding district for over 100 years. Previously two separate hospitals, the 228-bed NBGH is a result of the merger in 1995, of North Bay's Civic Hospital and the St. Joseph's Hospital and the addition of 40 acute mental health beds from the Northeast Mental Health Centre in 2009. Over the next three years of occupancy in the new NBRHC, the NBGH will increase its bed numbers to a total of 275; the increase being in Complex Continuing Care, Rehabilitation and Critical Care.
NBRHC is truly a community hospital with more than 95% of family physicians in North Bay actively participating in patient care. Given the relatively small size of its community, NBRHC offers a wide range of programs and services. Our staff and physicians maintain high standards and are flexible and innovative; ready to try new approaches and programs always improving patient care. Patients and their families repeatedly tell us that they appreciate the warm and skillful care they receive at our hospital.
The NBGH and the Northeast Mental Health Centre have been working together for years as they developed the new NBRHC. In November 2009, the Boards of the respective hospitals announced their recommendation of an amalgamation of the two service providers and the creation of a new organization. This new organization became official on April 1, 2011, and is now known as the North Bay Regional Health Centre, which includes a District Hospital and a Regional Mental Health Centre.