Released on October 24, 2014
Residents of Kelvington and area celebrated a major step toward a new integrated health care facility today with a sod turning ceremony at the Kelvindell Lodge.“Our government is committed to improving health care infrastructure and access to care in Saskatchewan,” Health Minister Dustin Duncan said. “The new integrated facility will allow residents to live more safely and comfortably, and create a better work environment for health care workers.”
The project will renovate and expand the existing Kelvindell Lodge to include primary, acute and emergency services. The new facility will replace the Kelvington Hospital and offer 45 long-term care beds, seven acute care beds and seven multi-purpose patient rooms for primary care.
The planning team recently received a provincial award of excellence at the Health Quality Summit. The team used a 3P (production, preparation, process) planning approach, and managed to reduce the budget by almost $7 million to $15 million, while maintaining project quality and ensuring patients’ needs will be met.
“I wholeheartedly believe the project has worked to the advantage of the community of Kelvington and surrounding area,” Kelsey Trail Regional Health Authority Chair Rennie Harper said. “It has allowed the participation of the patients, residents, family members and staff who will use and work here, to be directly involved in facility design. As the first rural community in the province to use 3P in the project design process, the Kelvington Integrated Facility and those involved in its planning have made history. Project participants have established themselves as true innovators and leaders in this province.”
“The Town of Kelvington is very excited and proud to be chosen as the location for this innovative new health facility,” Kelvington Mayor Trevor Lowey said. “We anticipate that the processes and procedures pioneered here will ripple across the entire health care spectrum.”
Construction of the facility is expected to start this fall with scheduled completion in spring 2017.
The provincial government is contributing $12 million toward the project, which represents 80 per cent of total project costs. Local funding will cover the remaining 20 per cent
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For more information, contact:
Peggy Ratcliffe
Kelsey Trail Health Region
Tisdale
Phone: 306-873-6613
Email: pratc@kthr.sk.ca
Tyler McMurchy
Health
Regina
Phone: 306-787-4083
Email: tyler.mcmurchy@health.gov.sk.ca