Saskatchewan’s First Wellness Centre Of Its Kind To Open Doors In Fall

Saskatoon’s Pleasant Hill School connected 20th Street, which closed its doors successful 2023, will beryllium opening their doors successful nan autumn pinch a caller look.

Alongside nan city’s first urgent care centre will beryllium Saskatchewan’s first wellness centre of its kind, which will see a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine.

“In that imaging clinic, we person authorities of nan art, nan astir newest instrumentality Canon has successful Saskatchewan. So we’re excited astir that. That’s an MRI, and past besides ultrasound, CT scans. We’re besides having a drugstore put successful here,” said Jay Ahenakew Funk, CEO of Ahtahkakoop Cree Developments.

Ahtahkakoop Cree Developments owns nan onshore and will tally nan site. Funk says nan institution will beryllium moving alongside nan Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technology (SIIT) to unit nan wellness centre, hiring for X-ray technicians, intelligence wellness and addiction counsellors, and moreover an elder’s program.

“It’s good needed. And being from nan Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation and representing our people, I deliberation it’s important that nan state and america arsenic First Nations travel together and put thing together that’s going to beryllium rewarding for everyone,” said Funk.

Funk says nan wellness centre being beside an urgent attraction installation allows nan 2 attraction teams to amended collaboration to thief patients.

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“With nan wellness centre, I deliberation making judge that nan programs spell hand-in-hand pinch nan urgent care,  and past evidently we tin thief each different out,” Funk said. “So, it’s crucial, actually. It’s an important step, being adjacent to urgent care.”

Attached to nan wellness centre will beryllium a 150-stall parkade, arsenic Funk says parking is good needed successful nan area.

The urgent attraction installation is presently astatine 70 per cent completion pinch some accommodation expected to beryllium up and moving successful early 2027.

The $50 cardinal task is expected to easiness Saskatchewan hold times arsenic it houses instrumentality typically only seen successful hospitals.

Watch supra for much connected nan wellness centre and nan amenities it will see to thief Saskatchewan patients.