Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre is a hospital near Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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 a new facility.
[1] 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 m2) 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.
[4] 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.