{"id":900949,"date":"2026-09-18T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/900949\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:20:10","slug":"province-issues-rfp-to-conduct-expansion-assessment-for-st-clares-mercy-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/900949\/","title":{"rendered":"Province Issues RFP to Conduct Expansion Assessment for St. Clare\u2019s Mercy Hospital"},"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\/2026\/09\/st-clares-main-entrance-sign-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Province Issues RFP to Conduct Expansion Assessment for St. Clare's Mercy Hospital\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Clare&#8217;s Mercy Hospital Main Entrance (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Plans are in motion for the provincial government to conduct an assessment of St. Clare\u2019s Mercy Hospital in St. John\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p>Government has issued an RFP to engage a team of consultants to do a comprehensive review of the hospital, which they say will be a \u201ckey step\u201d in planning for future healthcare infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>The work will examine the condition of the facility and the potential for expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The assessment will identify required upgrades, estimate potential costs, and explore the options for future expansion. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the former Liberal government\u2019s plans for a total replacement of St. Clare\u2019s were axed by the PCs due to the exorbitant costs involved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; St. Clare&#8217;s Mercy Hospital Main Entrance (VOCM News) Plans are in motion for the provincial government to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-900949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900949","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=900949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}