Healthcare in the Lloydminster is progressing, including work on the dialysis project.
Paul Richer shared the good news with seniors from his recent meeting of the Bi-Provincial Health Committee, chaired by the assistant deputy health ministers from Saskatchewan and Alberta Health.
"We've got Chandos Construction doing demolition and by summer of 2025, we should have a ribbon cutting - late summer, I predict," reported Richer on dialysis.
Richer sits on the committee as chair of the Lloydminster District Health Advisory Council. He made a report at the Oct. 1 meeting of the Lloydminster Concerned Citizens for Seniors Care Society.
He also reported two elevators are being replaced in the Lloydminster Hospital.
"They're going to fix one elevator that goes into another elevator," he explained.
Richer also noted some healthcare committee members are councillors in adjoining municipalities to Lloydminster.
On that point, he said the council in the RM of Britannia has instructed its administration to send a letter to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health regarding the Jubilee Home replacement need.
The Seniors Care Society is working with Red Bicycle Communications to prepare a short revised replacement proposal to send to the Ministry of Health for the replacement of the Jubilee.
Richer also reported the Saskatchewan Health Authority has allocated $250,000 to complete an advance plan for long-term care in North Battleford, which he says already has two and a half times the LTC spaces compared to the population in Lloydminster.
"So they're doing something right, and we're doing something wrong," said Richer.
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