GALLERY: Celebrating $3M plus in Emergency Dept upgrades at St. Therese – St. Paul Healthcare Centre

WATCH: Site Manager Jamie Malone, Chief of Staff Dr. Adebayo, MLA Scott Cyr, and Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Health North Ron Wiebe, all speak following the completion of ED upgrades.

Malone: “It’s been a long haul. A year and a half, we’ve been in renovations, and we’re just so grateful to the physicians and the frontline teams that have been working in the space. Our ER has not closed. We’ve been open and operational through the whole renovation. So just very, very grateful for it to be done and to be in the new spaces and be able to provide patient care.”

Dr. Adebayo: “This conversation has started as early as 2017 where we started brainstorming of how we can maximize the space we have in the emergency room. I’m so grateful to see this today, because it’s brought up a lot of ideas that people had that time they conceived it. I’m so glad with the space management how we got all these things together, and we have three extra cubicles, exam rooms, making it up to 10 for the emergency room department. Now we have a triage space which was not there before. This actually boosts patient care and patient experience in the emergency department.”

Malone: “Our acute care beds, often they’re full with patients. We don’t have beds to admit from ER and so going up from patient treatment spaces from seven to 10 is helping that capacity. Being able to see to room patients more in the in the emergency department is huge.”

Dr. Adebayo: “My appreciation goes to the staff, the physicians, the nurses, the support staff as well for making this happen, because we when the project started, it was also the launch of Connect Care. So there was a lot of apprehension about how this is going to work, because we’re trying to do two things at the same time, but they were very supportive…to not shut down when we’re trying to launch Connect Care with seven, and at the same time initiate this project–that was a landmark thing for me. That was very impressive.”

Malone: “I can echo Dr. Adebayo words…thanks to the community and the patience that they had with us. Often we went from seven treatment spaces to six to five, depending on where they were working in the reno so, they heard the drilling. Sometimes they saw the renovations. They were in groups through that project as well. I think the frontline teams and the community as a whole, thank you for your patience. We finally completed it, and we’re able to be in the space.”

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Dr. Francis Adebayo

Mayor Maureen Miller

Adele Richardson

Jamie Malone

MLA Scott Cyr

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Cyr: “I will give some credit to the former MLA David Hanson. This process has started underneath David Hanson. It took three years, and we’re finally at that fine finish line. So when you’ve got wins, it’s good to attribute to the person that really started the fight, if you will. I am very thankful for all of the David done for our area, but I will tell you, it’s exciting for St. Paul. The fact that our way the second oldest hospital in all of Alberta — and we’re moving to the number one spot — a renovation of our emergency room and the and actually bringing some real life to this hospital is something I think is important for all of us.”

Wiebe: “The challenges are basically the same across the north. We all need healthcare professionals. We’re all need short of family physicians and and so our government, in last election, made of commitment to fix healthcare and all the refocusing that’s been going on over the last number of years has set us up for for this health care refocusing as we see it today, and and get to work to to start building on on all the changes that we’ve made…I’m very happy to be part of this as the Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Health North, and I’m just proud of the work that Adriana LaGrange has done as our Health Minister, just to have the wherewithal to just really dig in and reshape our healthcare system, so that we will be in good shape for the years to come.”

Cyr: “I want to thank our frontline doctors and nurses, the support staff, for all that they do. The fact that we’ve been in the renovation phase for a while now, and the hardship that that creates on the front lines. I know that it’s exciting to get a new space, but it took us a lot of time to get there. When it comes down to it, we have the some of the best staff, and all of northern –well, all of Alberta and Canada, up in the Lakeland region, and that comes down to the fact that they’ve got a real heart. I’m excited for them, for this new step forward, and I look forward to seeing where we can go as a constituency.”