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Province Announces Site of New Neepawa Hospital
The wait is finally over for the Town of Neepawa. Health Minister Audrey Gordon, along with Agassiz MLA Eileen Clarke and representatives from the RHA and healthcare community, travelled to Neepawa to announce the future location of the new hospital. The press conference was held at the edge of a field that over the next four years will become a new $127 million health centre for the community, with just an artist’s rendering suggesting what the site would eventually look like. The project was initially announced in December of 2021.
Prior to the announcement, the community had all but deduced the location through local land sales and public hearings regarding zoning changes as well as activity at the site, but until the final details were worked out there was always the possibility that the site, and even the project, might fall through.
In addition to the site announcement, the province also announced that the new health centre would establish renal services in the community for the first time, with an eight-bed hemodialysis suite. Currently, many patients throughout the Prairie Mountain Health region are travelling significant distances for dialysis treatment multiple times per week.
The province indicates they still expect to complete the hospital by 2025, although Prairie Mountain Health CEO Brian Schoonbaert acknowledges that the 10-month delay between announcing the project and confirming the site will have an impact on construction timelines. Prairie Mountain Health and the Town of Neepawa have also been working together on a new LPN training program in the community that should help with the staffing needs of the new facility.
Work is expected to begin on the site in the first week of November.
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