The Lloydminster dialysis project continues to progress.
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.
“We’ve got Chandos Construction doing demolition and by the 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 and made a a report at the Oct.1 meeting of the Lloydminster Concerned Citizens for Seniors Care Society.
He also told the meeting 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 of the 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 Jubilee.
Richer also reported Saskatchewan Health Authority has allocated $250,000 to complete an advanced plan for long-term care (LTC) in North Battleford.
He says they already have two and a half times the LTC spaces compared the population in Lloydminster.
“So they’re doing something right and we’e doing something wrong,” said Richer.
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