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Staff at Caraquet’s only hospital are welcoming the province’s announcement of a new unit featuring 10 acute care beds as they say ER doctors have recently left the hospital.
New unit increases capacity from 12 to 22 beds at Hôpital de l’Enfant‑Jésus
Katelin Belliveau · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 14, 2026 2:25 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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Dr. Gilbert Blanchard said the new unit will nearly double the hospital’s capacity and create more support for staff already working on site. (Mario Landry/Radio-Canada)
Health-care providers at Caraquet’s only hospital are hopeful the addition of new acute care beds will bring shorter hospital wait times and support for staff.
A unit featuring 10 acute care beds is now open at l’Hopital de l’Enfant-Jesus, bringing the hospital’s capacity from 12 to 22 beds.
“This strengthens the team to offer a better quality of care and to support each other as a team, which is important in small hospitals like ours,” Dr. Gilbert Blanchard, a family physician who works at the hospital, told Radio-Canada in French.
The unit, announced by the province Wednesday, creates about 25 new,
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