EDMONTON After years of delays, Grande Prairie residents are said to be just months away from having a new hospital. The province s health minister was in the northern Alberta city on Monday to announce when the new Grande Prairie Regional Hospital opens at the end of the year, it will do so with two additional operating rooms. The new facility s total 11 operating rooms will see an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 more surgeries done each year than are currently done at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital. The new hospital will have five more operating rooms than the latter facility and is expected to perform between 14,000 and 15,000 surgeries annually.
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Maskwôtêh Park Pedestrian Bridge, City of Grande Prairie
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Construction has begun on the Maskwôtêh Park pedestrian bridge.
This week, crews began preparing land east of the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital for the new bridge. Once built, the pedestrian bridge will connect the park to the new hospital grounds and nearby trails.
The 45-metre bridge is designed with proximity to the regional hospital in mind and will be built to carry the weight of emergency vehicles weighing up to 8,159 kg.
The playground and trails in Maskwôtêh Park will remain open while the crew prepares the site on the south side of Bear River. Once the site is ready for the bridge structure to be installed, pedestrians will be temporarily rerouted as workers lift and place the bridge.
It has been almost 10 years since ground was broken for the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital (GPRH) which is yet to see a single patient. According to Alberta Health Services (AHS), the facility should be open by the end of the year. “We (AHS) intend to be done and be able to open up the facility for our first patients by the end of this calendar year,” Stacy Greening, AHS senior operating officer told Town & Country News this week. Premier Ed Stelmach broke ground for the hospital on July 29, 2011; some five premiers have come and gone since then. The $850 million project was originally due to be open by fall 2014 and saw an onslaught of construction delays.