The Weyburn General Hospital celebrated a grand opening on Friday, with the facility ready to open to patients on Nov. 1. Members from the provincial government, the Saskatchewan Health Authority and Weyburn District Hospital Foundation marked the grand opening with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday. The new facility has 25 private acute care rooms, each with a ceiling lift and larger accessible washroom, 10 inpatient health beds, an operating theatre, a larger modern emergency department and trauma care spaces, lab and medical imaging spaces, an onsite EMS base with a heliport, ambulatory and allied health services, as well as offices. The province invested more than $134 million to the project, with additional capital costs, furniture fixtures and equipment funded by community donors and the Weyburn and District Hospital Foundation. More details to come…
