That motion was carried at the meeting and will be recommended to council. The 100-year-old Saskatchewan Hospital, the province's only forensic psychiatric hospital, is slated to be retired from active use and replaced by a facility in the coming few years. Construction of a new hospital is slated for 2013. In his letter to the committee, Battlefords Heritage Society president Richard Hiebert noted the grand history of the existing structure and its importance to the surrounding communities. "Officially, the Saskatchewan Hospital is not part of North Battleford, or Battleford, proper. But in every other sense, it is. The histories of the hospital and both the city of North Battleford and town of Battleford are intimately bound together."