A sprained ankle at the soccer field. A cut that needs stitches. A fever that won’t come down on a Saturday.
That can’t wait until Monday. You need to be seen today.
That’s what urgent care is for, and Alberta is building a lot more of it.
Your United Conservative government is investing $39 million to plan and buy land for nine new urgent care centres across the province.
Once they’re open, Alberta’s urgent care network will more than double, to 15 centres from six. That boosts urgent care capacity by 150 per cent.
The new centres are planned for west and south Edmonton, the Stony Plain-Spruce Grove area, east Calgary, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Cold Lake, Fort McMurray and Sylvan Lake. These are communities where growth and demand are driving the need for more care options.
What does that mean for you? More walk-in, same-day care for urgent problems that aren’t life-threatening.
It also means less pressure on our hospitals. The new centres will help divert up to 300,000 emergency visits a year.
More urgent care centres, more same-day care, less pressure on emergency rooms. That’s your United Conservative government getting the job done.