On May 7th 2009, the Quebec Premier, Mr. Jean Charest along with the Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr Yves Bolduc, announced a 44 million dollar investment for a new Emergency and Hyperbaric department at the CHAU Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis.  Work is scheduled to start in August 2009 and the official opening will be during the year of 2011. This investment also includes a new hyperbaric chamber. This new hyperbaric department will put the CHAU Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis at the worlds for front in hyperbaric and wound care.

This new hyperbaric chamber will improve significantly the health care services notably for carbon monoxide poisoning, decompression sickness as well as all the recognized indication by the Agence d’évaluation des technologies et des modes d’intervention en santé (AETMIS). This new chamber will be of a rectangular shape and will have three locks capable to be pressurized independently. It will also be able to accommodate 18 patients simultaneously.  Annexed to the hyperbaric department, will be a wound care centre, this configuration is unique in Canada.

It will able the wound care centre to provide 2nd and 3rd line of care in chronic wound care.  Doctor Richard Belley, Medical Director of the hyperbaric centre, states that « the implementation of this hyperbaric/wound care centre will not only allow us to augment our services to the population but, it will also give us the opportunity to further the development of science in this discipline since, a research program will be associated to this hyperbaric chamber and that one lock will be dedicated to research» The CHAU Hôtel Dieu de Lévis hyperbaric services is composed of 7 hyperbaric physicians supported by a team of hyperbaric technicians and a coordinator for the Centre de medicine de plongée du Québec. This team will be the most important hyperbaric team in Canada.