Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre is a hospital near Amherst, Nova Scotia , Canada. Located next to Highway 104 in the rural community of Upper Nappan, Cumberland Regional serves residents of Cumberland County .
5-539: A charitable organisation, the Highland View Regional Hospital Foundation, was established in 1993 to raise funds toward a replacement for the old Highland View Regional Hospital in Amherst. In October 1997, Nova Scotia premier Russell MacLellan and health minister Jim Smith formally announced that the hospital would be replaced, with the province covering 75 per cent of the construction cost of
10-465: A 24-hour emergency department. Russell MacLellan Russell Gregoire MacLellan (born January 16, 1940) is a Canadian politician who served as the 24th premier of Nova Scotia from 1997 to 1999. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1979 federal election for the riding of Cape Breton—The Sydneys and sat as a Liberal MP until 1997. In 1997, he became leader of
15-557: A new facility. The new hospital, designed by Halifax architecture firm William Nycum and Associates, was built with a floor area of approximately 163,000 square feet (15,100 m) and 78 acute care inpatient beds. The building is organised around a two-storey main corridor designed to allow natural light into the hospital interior. It opened in October 2002. Initially operated by the Cumberland Health Authority, management of
20-751: The Nova Scotia Liberal Party and premier of the province after John Savage was forced to resign due to discontent within his party and sagging polls. MacLellan tried to revive the Liberal government's fortunes; he narrowly won a minority government in the 1998 election , but his government was defeated in a confidence vote in 1999 and then defeated in the resulting 1999 election . On January 26, 2000, MacLellan announced he would step down as Liberal leader on June 30. He continued to sit as an MLA until resigning in October 2000. Following his resignation, MacLellan returned to practising law, working for
25-564: The hospital was transferred to the new Nova Scotia Health Authority after Nova Scotia's regional health authorities were dissolved in 2015. The hospital made national headlines in January 2023 following the death of a 37-year-old woman, Allison Holthoff, after she waited around seven hours for treatment in the emergency department. The death has been viewed as emblematic of worsening crisis in Nova Scotia's healthcare system. Cumberland Regional has
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