{"id":831906,"date":"2026-07-28T18:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831906\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T18:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:10:15","slug":"consultant-sought-to-advance-nanaimo-hospital-patient-tower-cath-lab-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831906\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultant sought to advance Nanaimo hospital patient tower &#038; cath lab | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/138176f2-07a4-4f24-b18c-8b6fa71f73fc.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Plans to replace the NRGH patient tower, and creating a cardiac cath lab, are advancing under a newly released concept plan request for proposals process. (Image Credit: File photo\/NanaimoNewsNOW)<\/p>\n<p>By NanaimoNewsNOW staff<\/p>\n<p>another step forward<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 28, 2026 | 5:28 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NANAIMO \u2014 A newly launched bidding process aims to formulate a concept plan for a pair of key capital projects at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Island Health formally initiated a request for proposals process on Thursday, July 23 to establish a concept plan for a new inpatient tower and cardiac catherization lab at NRGH.<\/p>\n<p>Bids are accepted until Aug. 13 for a qualified consultant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe successful Proponent will enter into a single contract with Island Health and will be responsible for assembling, managing, coordinating, and integrating all subconsultants and specialist disciplines required to complete the Services,\u201d states Island Health\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/islandhealthfdc.bidsandtenders.ca\/Module\/Tenders\/en\/Tender\/Detail\/6c9b83fe-3020-4b13-aa6a-b0dd6d584bf2#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">bids and tenders homepage.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans to replace the NRGH patient tower, and creating a cardiac cath lab, are advancing under a newly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,84,392,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-831906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831906","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=831906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}