As of next Tuesday (April 1st), all hospitals within Waterloo Region sans Cambridge Memorial Hospital will be merged under a new umbrella organization and each hospital will now take on a new name.
Grand River Hospital and St Mary's General Hospital will be officially merged and renamed to the Waterloo Regional Health Network.
The hospitals will be renamed as follows:
Most likely it'll be many, many years before any of those names catch on, though! KWHC and FHC merged into GRH in the mid 1990s but even to this day, people still call them KW Hospital and Freeport Hospital.
Also...does anyone know why Cambridge Memorial Hospital still chooses to remain independent?
Grand River Hospital and St Mary's General Hospital will be officially merged and renamed to the Waterloo Regional Health Network.
The hospitals will be renamed as follows:
- St. Mary's General Hospital will be renamed to WRHN - Queen's Boulevard Site
- KW Hospital will be renamed to WRHN - Midtown Site
- Freeport Hospital will be renamed WRHN - Chicopee Site
Most likely it'll be many, many years before any of those names catch on, though! KWHC and FHC merged into GRH in the mid 1990s but even to this day, people still call them KW Hospital and Freeport Hospital.
Also...does anyone know why Cambridge Memorial Hospital still chooses to remain independent?