Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew announced Monday emergency department services will be restored at the Dauphin Regional Health Centre as a temporary facility by Labour Day.
Kinew made the announcement via a video on Facebook, adding the facility will provide the high quality services expected by Parkland residents.
Prairie Mountain Health CEO Treena Slate announced last week cleanup at the Dauphin Regional Health Centre (DRHC) is almost done and work is now set to begin the restore the facility.
“Since July 1 and the complete evacuation of DRHC, Prairie Mountain Health and Shared Health teams, along with their community and government partners, have worked together to make significant progress on restoring community-based services as close to Dauphin as possible,” she stated.
“Now that cleaning work is mostly complete in the flooded-out areas within the DRHC, they are now in the ‘restoration and rebuild phase’ of the project, with procurement of supplies and equipment underway.”
Additional progress on services to date includes:
• A new temporary Shared Health Diagnostic Patient Service Centre is located in the Provincial Building, Level 1, Room 111, 27 Second Avenue Southwest in Dauphin.
Services provided include lab, x-ray, EKG and Holter monitoring from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.
Since its opening on Aug. 7, the temporary Shared Health Diagnostic Patient Service Centre has served over 200 patients.
• The Ste. Rose Emergency Department (ED) continues to be staffed to provide ED services 24 hours a day, seven days a week to support the needs of Dauphin and area residents.
The regular staffing complement includes nursing staff trained in obstetrical care and staff to support mental health and addictions.
• The Grandview Emergency Department continues to be open seven days a week, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• An outpatient treatment clinic is open in the Community Health Services building, which is attached to the hospital.
• The Palliative Care Program will be based out of the Dauphin Personal Care Home starting, Aug. 24.
See next week’s Dauphin Herald for more on the restoration..