It’s sometimes said that a hospital is no place to be when you’re sick.

That’s because patients, doctors, nurses, visitors and staff all mingle together, and sometimes pass along germs and infections that can be dangerous, or even fatal.

The Niagara Health System battled through one such deadly outbreak this summer, at St Catharines General Hospital – a hospital designed before superbugs were common.

But the NHS is on the verge of opening its most modern hospital yet. And as Scot Urquhart reports, infection control was a key part of the design.