ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE, ALTA. – Expansion of the Rocky Mountain House Health Centre is now complete.
Infrastructure Alberta has completed an addition to the facility which includes a new operating room and will enable approximately 120 Albertans per month to receive surgery, a release said.
“Completing the expansion and renovation of the Rocky Mountain House Health Centre is a significant step forward in delivering Alberta Surgical Initiative projects province-wide. This investment into health care infrastructure will increase surgical capacity, helping Albertans get treatment when and where they need it,” Pete Guthrie, Alberta’s minister of infrastructure, said in the release.
The expanded Rocky Mountain House Health Centre provides an additional 440 square metres and includes a new operating room, six additional recovery beds, a patient support area and an updated medical device reprocessing department.
The new spaces can be accessed from the existing site thanks to the addition of an upgraded hallway that connects the two buildings, the release said.
The total budget for the Rocky Mountain House Health Centre project was $15 million.
The upgrade is part of the Alberta Surgical Initiative (ASI), which aims to enhance surgical capacity across the province by expanding and maximizing existing health care spaces. Over the next three years, the 2024 Capital Plan is providing $313 million for ASI projects throughout the province.
Alberta Infrastructure and Alberta Health Services share the responsibility for delivering ASI projects with Alberta Health Services leading delivery of smaller projects and Alberta Infrastructure delivering capital projects over $5 million.
Alberta Infrastructure is working on 20 ASI projects in communities across Alberta, including Brooks, Calgary, Camrose, Edmonton, Fort Saskatchewan, Innisfail, Lethbridge, Olds, Ponoka, St. Albert and Stettler. Lethbridge will be the next community to benefit from a completed ASI project, the release said.
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