Open houses focus on health care in Airdrie [Video]

A series of open houses this weekend in Airdrie focussed on health care and how best to meet the needs of the city’s more than 85,000 residents.

Airdrie doesn’t have a hospital so its residents rely on the only urgent care centre in the city.

“The question about having a hospital has been on the agenda for decades now and every time we look at it, it seems to go further and further away,” said  Dr. Julian Kyne of One Health Associated Medical.

“So what we’ve said is let’s start making the realizable steps that we can move forward with, because every time we do this, we improve overall health care.”

It’s estimated that as many as 20,000 residents do not have a family doctor and the hope is this centre could help ease backlogs at the urgent care centre.

“We’ve worked on this plan for several months, and now …