New Western Memorial Regional Hospital

The new Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook opened to patients and clients on June 2, 2024. The modern 164-bed, seven story acute care hospital provides quality patient care with individual inpatient rooms, state-of-the-art treatment rooms, and enhanced diagnostics systems.

The hospital design has single inpatient rooms with a spacious accessible washroom. The layout allows for patient and family privacy while improving infection prevention and control.
Medical imaging has increased its capacity with a second MRI machine, two additional ultrasound machines and one additional echo cardio machine, which helps with diagnosing heart issues.
Expanded Chemotherapy Services and Radiation therapy will be provided through Cancer Care Western.
The surgery and procedure unit has an additional endoscopy suite.
Renal care programs has potential capacity for up to 24 dialysis patients, an increase from 15 in the former hospital.
The mental health units have improvements to inpatient areas with added family spaces, a fitness room, a relaxation room, and access to a secure outdoor terrace.

This facility provides warm, energetic, and patient-centered spaces for patients and visitors to receive services; it optimizes hospital-based services in the region; and improves workplace quality for our physicians and staff. Please view this video tour to explore the hospital. Read more here.

Facility and Parking Lot Map

Western Memorial Regional Hospital Sets New Infrastructure Precedent and Receives LEED Silver Certification 

The new Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook is home to Canada’s largest geothermal system, which has set a precedent for modern infrastructure for both Newfoundland and Labrador and North America. The geothermal field is approximately 600 feet below the hospital’s parking lot, and provides 100 per cent of the ground source geothermal heating for the hospital – the largest solution of its kind for a health care facility in North America.

With efficiency and cost-savings at the forefront, this groundbreaking system provides approximately 12 per cent total cost savings over the life span of 30 years. The geothermal system was also key in eliminating cooling towers at the hospital, saving up to two million gallons of water per year.

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design® (LEED®) Silver Certification is issued by the Canada Green Building Council, LEED®, an international symbol of sustainability excellence and green building leadership. LEED® certification provides independent, third-party verification that a building project was designed and built, or operated, to achieve high performance in six areas of human and environmental health:

• Location and transportation
• Sustainable site development
• Water savings
• Energy efficiency
• Materials selection
• Indoor environmental quality