News & stories

Dr. Peter Potts, the interim chief of staff for Waterloo Regional Health Network and St. Mary’s General Hospital, has won an inaugural award recognizing excellence in surgical teaching.

WRHN has marked 100 years of exceptional care at its Freeport Campus with a fabulous garden party!

Andy Medwid is the kind of security officer who exemplifies and advances compassionate care at Waterloo Regional Health Network. Andy has won WRHN’s June award of excellence for his service to patients and the hospital community.

Heat-related deaths and illness are preventable and anyone can suffer heat-related illness when their bodies can't compensate and properly cool. It’s important to be aware risk factors and what actions can be taken to prevent a heat-related illness or death.

Take a look at progress being made through more than a year of ION light rail construction near WRHN's KW Campus

For the first time in its nine-year history, McMaster University’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine Waterloo Regional Campus carried out the first-year OSCE, or objective structured clinical examination, at Waterloo Regional Health Network’s regional cancer centre the evening of Tuesday June 14th. 

Crews are now working at the King and Pine intersection, which is the emergency department access to WRHN's KW Campus. The emergency entrance and intersection will be open at all times during construction. Crews plan to work on half of the intersection at a time. This will allow traffic to continue flowing at this key access point to the hospital.

GrandLinq is using four mini trenches to maintain access to the busiest hospital in the region at a key intersection through ION light rail construction.

WRHN’s facilities staff members have received accolades from Kitchener Wilmot Hydro for innovative work to cut energy use.

Patients continue to benefit from high-quality care at Waterloo Regional Health Network according to a recently-released report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information.