Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have, as I indicated yesterday in the House, a number of things on the books for Yellowknife and I'll start with Stanton. There's about a $16 million mid-life renovation and upgrade to the facility that will help us deal with some of the emergency issues and some of the congestion and layout problems that are there, as well as look at the better use of some of the resources that are there with the surplus of acute care beds. I indicated yesterday, as well, that we are looking at the possibility of the integration of clinic services in the downtown core so that, in fact, we can be more coordinated, administratively effective and to give the clinic the capacity to do some basic things that they now can't do that have to be referred to Stanton; simple things like doing X-rays. We are planning on moving ahead with midwifery, we're planning on moving ahead with nurse practitioners. We've come up with, as I indicated earlier, some benchmarks for what's the appropriate mix of doctors and midwives, by population and community size. So we have a number of fairly significant initiatives underway. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 393-15(3): Addressing The Nurse And Doctor Shortage
In the Legislative Assembly on February 16th, 2005. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 393-15(3): Addressing The Nurse And Doctor Shortage
Question 393-15(3): Addressing The Nurse And Doctor Shortage
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 15th, 2005
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