The new Corner Brook hospital, open just eight months, is overflowing with people who no longer need urgent medical attention, or are waiting to go home or to get into long term care, but are still occupying a bed.

So, Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services is putting 45 beds into the old Corner Brook hospital, which transitioned to administrative space and a community health centre when the new Western Regional Memorial Hospital opened.

NLHS is planning to renovate two floors of what's now kn…