A sign to indicate the new location of Weyburn’s new integrated health care facility was unveiled on Friday, with local dignitaries on hand.
They included Reeve Norm McFadden of the RM of Weyburn, Coun. Mel Van Betuw of the City of Weyburn, Jeff Hayward of the Weyburn and District Hospital Foundation, and Weyburn-Big Muddy MLA Dustin Duncan.
The site was first unveiled in an announcement in early September, when Premier Scott Moe and then-Health Minister Jim Reiter were on hand along with MLA Duncan and several members of city council and the Hospital Foundation.
Duncan said the Request for Proposals went out a couple of weeks ago for the major project, and they are due to be in to the government by this summer. The hospital is due to be constructed and open by 2023.
The sign is located between Fifth Street and Hamilton Street on a 20-acre parcel purchased from the City of Weyburn, which is the new site for the new integrated 35-bed facility. The new facility will include a 10-bed inpatient mental health unit, and will also integrate the EMS ambulance service into its location.
The site was selected after a detailed analysis of factors including land costs, zoning requirements and servicing.
The new hospital will replace the current Weyburn General Hospital, which Premier Moe noted was built in 1952, the year that television first came to Canada, and it has “done its duty”.
