News Release - November 12, 2002
The Future of Highland View Regional Hospital

The future of the Highland View Regional Hospital premises on East Pleasant Street is not up in the air. There is a firm plan in place.

According to a joint agreement made some time ago between the Municipality of Cumberland County, the Town of Amherst, the former Regional Health Board and the Cumberland Health Care Foundation (formerly Highland View Regional Hospital Foundation), the existing hospital facility will be demolished and the site re-mediated to residential standards of the Department of Environment and Labour. Ownership of the site will then be transferred to the Cumberland Health care Foundation, which is charged with the responsibility and challenge to develop the property to its best potential. The net proceeds of such development will be used exclusively to the benefit of the new Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre.

The Cumberland Health Care Foundation is pleased to be part of this agreement. It will see additional funds directed towards the highest standard of health care for the residents of Cumberland County.