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==Municipal services== The city is responsible for Community Services, Economic Development, Transportation & Public Works, Corporate Services, Fire Department and Planning Services. Many municipal services are provided through the [[Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario|Regional Municipality of Waterloo]] (often referred to as Waterloo Region or the Region of Waterloo), which consists of the cities of Cambridge, [[Kitchener, Ontario|Kitchener]], and [[Waterloo, Ontario|Waterloo]], and the townships of [[Woolwich, Ontario|Woolwich]], [[Wilmot, Ontario|Wilmot]], [[Wellesley, Ontario (community)|Wellesley]], and [[North Dumfries, Ontario|North Dumfries]]. The region of Waterloo responsibilities includes Social Services, Community Health Services, Grand River Transit and Community Policing through [[Waterloo Regional Police|Waterloo Regional Police Service]]. ===Hospital=== Hospital services are provided by Cambridge Memorial Hospital at 700 Coronation Boulevard. A small hospital in the Galt area had opened in 1890, the first in Waterloo County,<ref>{{cite news |title=Flash from the Past: Hospitals' history of growth a Cambridge-Galt constant|date=23 November 2018|url=https://www.therecord.com/living-story/9042867-flash-from-the-past-hospitals-history-of-growth-a-cambridge-galt-constant/|work=Waterloo Region Record|access-date=30 December 2018}}</ref> while the current facility, originally named South Waterloo Memorial Hospital, was completed in 1953. It was expanded in the early 1970s with the addition of Wing B, the inpatient tower.<ref name="Who We Are">{{cite web |url=https://www.cmh.org/about/who-we-are |website=CMH|date=26 October 2013|title=Who We Are |access-date=30 December 2018 }}</ref> This facility began a $187 million expansion project in 2014 that was expected to be completed by 2019. The hospital summarized the plan as follows in 2013: "This transformation includes a larger Emergency Department and a 33% increase in beds to accommodate expanded mental health, medicine, surgery, birthing programs and so much more".<ref name="Who We Are"/> [[File:Bank of Montreal building Cambridge Ontario 2012.jpg|thumb|Old Bank of Montreal building in Downtown Cambridge]] Difficulties with the general contractor, [[Bondfield Construction]], which eventually went into receivership, delayed the process significantly. A news report on 29 December 2018 stated that "After two decades of planning and community fundraising, the expansion project, promising 54 new beds and a twice-as-large emergency department, is not quite half-complete and stalled". A consortium of banks, led by the receiver, the [[Bank of Montreal]], called on the contractor's insurer, Zurich, to activate its [[surety bond]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Banks take control of Cambridge hospital project|date=29 December 2018|url=https://www.therecord.com/news-story/9080473-banks-take-control-of-cambridge-hospital-project/|work=Waterloo Region Record|access-date=30 December 2018|quote=BMO, as a lender and funder, called a performance bond to ensure there is funding to get the work done. Zurich Insurance is Bondfield's insurer.}}</ref> That step provided the funding to continue work on the new wing to correct the many deficiencies; the process was moving slowly as of late April 2019. At that time, Infrastructure Ontario, Zurich Insurance Company and the project lenders were in discussions with a contractor who will be hired to renovate the existing B wing after the new wing is occupied. An estimate in late 2018 indicated that the completion date for the entire hospital project was 2021 at the earliest.<ref>{{cite news |title=20 Years of Frustration for Cambridge Memorial Hospital|date=29 December 2018|url=https://www.therecord.com/news-story/9101082-20-years-of-frustration-for-cambridge-memorial-hospital/ |work=Waterloo Region Record|access-date=30 December 2018|quote=It's been repeated stops and starts for Cambridge Memorial's long-waited hospital expansion }}</ref> <ref>{{cite news|title=Further delays for Cambridge hospital project|date=29 December 2018|url=https://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news-story/9302284-further-delays-for-cambridge-hospital-project/|work=Cambridge Times|access-date=28 April 2019|quote=The insurance company is now in the process of appointing a new contractor to complete the next phase of the hospital project. It will begin once the handover of the new patient care wing is complete and occupation takes place.}}</ref> Part of the hospital expansion, the new patient care wing, was completed in mid-November 2019 and was scheduled to open in January 2020, after new equipment has been installed and staff have been trained.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://kitchener.citynews.ca/local-news/cambridge-memorial-hospitals-new-patient-wing-to-open-in-january-1845849 |title=Cambridge Memorial Hospital's new patient wing to open in January |date=13 November 2019 |publisher=Kitchener Today |access-date=13 November 2019 }}</ref>
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