The High River Hospital emergency room is accepting its first patients since the June 20 flood.
The emergency room reopened on Aug. 8 at 8 a.m., the latest step in a phased approach to fully re-opening the facility.
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The possibility of having a Ronald McDonald House (RMH) near the new Grande Prairie Regional Hospital is becoming more of a reality.
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The province’s health minister admitted Wednesday that High River’s publicly-run hospital will lose a third of its long-term care beds.
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The province’s health minister is reassuring High River residents the flood-ravaged town’s hospital will eventually offer the same services it did before the disaster.
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Two cranes are dominating the skyline over Medicine Hat Regional Hospital and while winter weather did not hamper construction, recent high winds certainly have, says Alberta Infrastructure.
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EDMONTON – The Alberta government has scrapped plans to build a second phase of the Strathcona County hospital, saying there isn’t enough demand in the area to justify a full-service, emergency-care facility.
“I’d like to say to residents of Strathcona County I know they are going to be disappointed by the announcement, but we had to make some tough decisions,” Health Minister Fred Horne said Thursday.
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Physicians in Sherwood Park say the first phase of the $160 million hospital now under construction in the community has been downgraded to an urgent care centre.
“It was deemed as a hospital but now last week we found out it’s been downgraded to an urgent care centre and that won’t even be open right now for 24 hours. Just for 14 hours,” said Dr. Jim Adams.
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With the Fort Saskatchewan Community Hospital being the newest one in the province, there are still some challenges left to overcome, but strides are being made.
As of Thursday, Feb. 14, the local hospital is being included in Alberta Health Service’s list of online up-to-date wait times for emergency rooms.
“I think what it does is it gives (the public) another option for what their options are and what their wait time will be when they get there,” said Debbie Goulard, executive director of AHS.
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The thumping sounds of construction activity is a sure sign things are happening with the expansion of Medicine Hat Regional Hospital.
“Excavating down two or three metres for the piles will continue for another week and concrete pouring has already begun for the piles,” said Larry Raymond, hospital construction manager, Alberta Infrastructure. “Soon we will be pouring concrete for more than one pile a day.”
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The long-awaited South Health Campus emergency department opened Jan. 14.
The emergency room deals with some cases that can’t be handled at Okotoks Urgent Care Department, but patient numbers haven’t dropped at the Okotoks Health and Wellness Centre since the emergency room in Calgary opened.
The hospital is located in the south Calgary in Auburn Bay and is staffed to handle up to 200 patients a day, with 70 registered nurses and nine paramedics on staff. There are between one to five doctors in the emergency room throughout the day and a pediatrician on from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day.
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