{"id":29894,"date":"2025-07-28T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29894\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:36:08","slug":"old-hospital-to-house-new-family-clinic-transitional-long-term-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29894\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Hospital to House New Family Clinic, Transitional, Long-Term Beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/western-memorial-hospital-corner-brook2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Old Hospital to House New Family Clinic, Transitional, Long-Term Beds\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The old Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook is being transformed into a family care clinic, with renovations underway to create both long-term care and transitional care beds at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government made the announcement Monday morning, renaming the hospital as the Corner Brook Community Health Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Area residents have long expressed frustration with a shortage of long-term care beds on the west coast.<\/p>\n<p>The province says the two long-term care units will house a total of 30 beds.<\/p>\n<p>The transitional care unit will include 15 beds for patients recovering from acute care before they are discharged.<\/p>\n<p>Recruitment is underway for a range of health care professionals to work at the old hospital, including nurse practitioners, RNs, LPNs, personal care attendants, and allied health professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The old Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook is being transformed into a family care clinic,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-29894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}