Saskatoon’s new urgent care centre breaks ground [Video]

Premier Scott Moe was in Saskatoon alongside chiefs and ministers Wednesday to mark the beginning of construction on Saskatoon’s new urgent care centre.

“The urgent care centre will provide services for a number of different types of patients,” said health minister Everett Hindley. “Those that require perhaps a health service that can’t wait until tomorrow but is not of an urgent nature.”

The facility is a partnership between the province, Saskatchewan Health Authority, and Ahtahkakoop Cree Developments to repurpose the former Pleasant Hill School into a medical centre that hopes to alleviate pressure on hospital emergency departments.

“We’re taking it down to the bones inside,” said Jay Ahenakew Funk of Ahtahkakoop Cree Developments. “And we have partnerships that we’ve created.

We have a pharmacy going in, we’ve got our imaging teamed up with S.I.I.T. We’re doing a partnership on X-ray techs, we’re dealing with mental health and addictions.”

In Regina, …