Alward will join Minister of Health Madeline Dube along with senior officials from Horizon Health Network and the Saint John Regional Hospital Foundation for the event.
The new ER will be fully operational to patients and the public at 12:01am on Friday May 13.
The grand opening celebrations begin at 2pm today. The renovations began in 2008 and cost 30 million dollars.
His visit comes just one day after Dube announced phase one of a catastrophic drug plan will be implemented this year. That follows a petition with 83 hundred names on it gather by Terry Crowe of Saint JOhn who suffers from a severe case of arthritis.
