It’s been just over a year since the opening of the MRI at the Dauphin Hospital.
About 230 patients have used the MRI monthly since December 2018 when it was opened. That adds up to around 3220 MRI uses in Dauphin.
Leanne Treloar, Director of Diagnostic Imaging with Shared Health for the Prairie Mountain region, says the MRI reduced wait times everywhere.
“It allowed us to build up the capacity within Prairie Mountain Health, as well as across the province, to meet the demand for MRIs. We initially, when we started with the Dauphin MRI we moved some patients that were scheduled in Brandon that were from the Parkland area, and we got those patients scanned in Dauphin so they didn’t have to travel.
Treloar says the Dauphin MRI has been tremendous.
“Everyone is just so pleased that they don’t have to travel to Brandon or elsewhere to have their MRI scans done. I think it’s been tremendous, the positive feedback from the patients themselves, it’s been great. The staff there think it’s, just, such a benefit that they don’t have to travel.”
There are some scans the Dauphin MRI doesn’t do, such as specialty exams, which includes breast MRIs. Patients that require those exams still have to travel.
