Prairie Mountain Health and the Province of Manitoba have been working to continue restoring services to the Dauphin Regional Health Centre, which was heavily affected by severe flooding in July.
During a tour of the Dauphin Regional Health Centre yesterday, Premier Wab Kinew remarked that during a previous visit in August, workers were using headlamps to see. As of now, several essential and outpatient services have been restored to the DRHC, including the emergency department, which reopened on Labour Day, and newly-reintroduced dialysis services, which started to see patients last week.
"We're very proud that the hospital construction team, the remediation folks, the healthcare staff, everybody's been so flexible and amazing about working together to get the facility back...slightly below a minor miracle what happened to get the ER back by Labour Day. And now to visit, and to see the CT scan in person for the first time for myself, to see the dialysis unit, to talk to the patients who are getting dialysis, who don't have to drive to Roblin, or to Brandon, or to Swan River anymore," said Kinew.
From the start, Prairie Mountain Health CEO Treena Slate has said everyone was involved with their conversations about what services they can reintroduce, and how they can reintroduce them, with focus on making sure the new spaces meet the needs to clinicians. Slate said it's good to show that their approach in reopening the Dauphin Regional Health Centre is working.
"I don't think anybody expected that we'd be in the place we are today with the progress that's been made in terms of developing, opening the emergency department, and being in the exact space again, it's just tremendous honestly...we're very proud of the work that has been done by the construction teams, and Shared Health leading the way in terms of the project leadership and collaboration with our teams, it's just been amazing honestly to see," said Slate.
Now that the emergency department, CT scan services, and dialysis services have been restored in some capacity, Slate said PMH is focusing on other services they could bring back with relative ease - notably, trailers to supplement a pharmacy and sterilization unit.
