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When the new hospital was built in Estevan we donated to it with the idea it would save us from running to Regina for care. What happened? Some parts of the hospital have never been opened. It is a beautifull facility but saddly under utilized and we are still running to Regina
When the new hospital was built in Estevan we donated to it with the idea it would save us from running to Regina for care. What happened? Some parts of the hospital have never been opened. It is a beautifull facility but saddly under utilized and we are still running to Regina
When the new hospital was built in Estevan we donated to it with the idea it would save us from running to Regina for care. What happened? Some parts of the hospital have never been opened. It is a beautifull facility but saddly under utilized and we are still running to Regina
I do think another facility would help cut down waiting times and costs. If you are able to get people looked after more quickly, whether it be long term or just through the ER it will help. But I also agree that some of the smaller hospitals could go specialized while still being an urgent care facility to determine if that patient should be transferred to another hospital or not. Across Canada in general our Health Care system is being taxed. Not just in Regina. A large part of the problem is that in the U.S. there is better benefits and higher wages that keep attracting our health care professionals to make the move, but that is a small portion of what's really going on!
Late hour or 24 hour urgent care clinics are desperately needed as well. Seeing a child sitting in a waiting room with a broken arm where the bone is sticking through the skin for more than 30 minutes is beyond comprehension, but it does happen and far too often.
I used to live in Regina 20 years ago before moving into a rural area. There used to be no problem with services at hospitals. Then over time I've been through the closure of small town hospitals to changing to a wellness model combined services and care home. Now our very young and elderly people in the rural routinely have to travel to get blood tests and x-rays. If you were seriously ill or in an accident your chances of survival dropped. We did not have an increase in ambulance services to compensate, nor did they change attendants to paramedics who could at least provide some services other than oxygen and a band aid. Many of you likely don't know that many rural communities own their ambulance services and run at a yearly lost added to our property taxes just to get by. Also rural people are forced to get services in the larger population areas and that put additional strain on the services. That along with an increase in population spells the situation we have now. You only have to travel to Saskatoon or Regina to see the huge growth in the province via the new housing. The short sightedness of all flavours of political parties lead to this. There was no plan to modernize healthcare by putting in place new expanded hospitals and staff in the semi-rural areas like Yorkton, Swift current, Rosetown ect. to take up the slack. Some changes have taken place, but as a after thought or as a result of outdated buildings well past their prime. We should be thankful though that we do have health care and you will be taken care of if you can get there in time. We all know a little preplanning would have been nice but now what we need is a true admittance of the problem and a solid brick and mortar solution for all saskatchewan residents. Lip service is always cheap and with the turn over of Healthcare CEOs tells you this is a problem that our government just doesn't want to deal with even though we have strong talk from Mr Wall. He doesn't want to deal with fixing the real problems he only wants to believe he can leave a legacy by reducing wait times. I sure would love to see his plans. I personally spent a week in the hospital to have gallblader surgery and I spend 1 day in maternity, 2 days in a hallway, 3 days in emergency with 4 people in a very small room sleeping on a gurney. The Doctor even forgot about me until the nurses realized I hadn't been given anything to eat or drink in 4 days and went into sugar shock. Not impressive to say the least.
Another hospital in Regina is not the answer!!
We currently have several under-utilized rural hospitals in the Province. I think the answer could be to turn some of these hospitals into "Specilaized Clinic's" (for the lack of a better term) What would be wrong with, for example, going to Estevan for Diagnostic testing, Moose Jaw for Knee and Hip Replacements, Yorkton for Eye & Throat, Etc, Etc, Etc. We seriously do have many hospitals that are all costing the entire system lots to operate. We should be filling these to capacity before we start building new hospitals. The result would be a much more efficient use of the dollars that are already put toward health care.
There used to be 3 hospitals in Regina, before they closed down the Plains which is now the SIAST campus. With the closure or reduction in service at so many of the small hospitals in the province it just doesn't make sense to NOT have 3 hospitals in a city the size of Regina - patients are coming from a much bigger area/population than they did when every little town had a hospital, doctors and nurses.
However, I believe more Nursing Homes may solve a lot of the problems with overcrowding at both hospitals