Northern Health provides update on pace of construction of New Mills Memorial Hospital in Terrace

The shape of the New Mills Memorial Hospital is looming large
on the Terrace streetscape these days
(photo from Northern Health)

One of the largest construction projects currently underway in the Northwest is the Mills Memorial Hospital Replacement work currently underway in Terrace, and this week Northern Health provided an update on its progress.

The Health Authority making note of the pace of progress in just the last year with some photos and background on the project to date, of note on that process, is the last pour of the concrete slabs for the new facility, something which was achieved on Wednesday.

The update page from Northern Health also provides a timeline as to how the project will move forward towards its completion date sometime in July of 2026.

As part of the overview, Northern Health has also outlined just how large the new hospital in Terrace will be and what will be found as patients and visitors travel the five floors and 365,500 square feet of the facility.

You can review the full update page here and join in on the conversation over the project through the Northern Health engagement by email.

Northern Health is looking for some feedback on
the Mills Memorial project from Northwest residents

The need for a state of the art health care facility for the Northwest is obvious and the upgrade for Terrace something that has long been overdue.  

However. the scope of the Mills Memorial build is being watched with some trepidation in Prince Rupert, where the large facility is being viewed as kind of a Death Star when it comes to local health care.

With concerns that once it opens in July 2026, it may drain the rest of the Northwest of medical specialists and serve to centralize much of our health care in that centre.

As we noted earlier this month, that topic was recently noted at Prince Rupert City Council, which received a petition from 1,027 area residents to register their concern over the ongoing erosion of services at Prince Rupert Hospital, with fears that more may be lost once the new Terrace facility opens.

Such is the concern over health care, that City Council may want to consider hosting a public forum on the topic in the near future.  

That to hear all of the concerns from residents and to invite MLA Jennifer Rice and Northern Health Officials to attend so as to provide some guidance for the public on what is clearly one of the most troubling concerns that North Coast residents have these days.

More notes on Health Care in Prince Rupert can be explored here.