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.