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Health care
A northern health hub
Specialists closer to home, training here, and care that travels to rural communities.
Idea for assessment, not an approved project
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The problem
What residents describe today.
Many specialist visits mean a long drive to Edmonton: a day off work, a hotel and the cost of travel.
When care leaves town, money and families leave with it.
Evidence
Many specialist visits need travel to Edmonton. How many visits, which specialties and what travel costs residents have not been measured here.
The idea
An approach to assess.
- Rotating specialists and day surgery for the northeast region.
- Health training programs tied to local jobs and residency spots.
- Seniors housing and home care so families can stay near.
- Mobile clinics and virtual care for rural communities.
- A survey where residents say which services they need most.
Before anything happens
What this idea still needs.
- Tarrabin Consulting's role
- Tarrabin Consulting wrote this idea and can advise on it. We do not run these services and we hold no approval to build them. Any decision belongs to the people and organizations responsible.
- Decisions needed
- Which services would be added closer to home, who would fund and staff them, and how rural communities are reached. Health decisions belong to the health authorities.
- Next step to test it
- Use this page's survey to hear which services residents miss most, then compare with public health service data.
- Communities
- Where an idea touches First Nations or Métis communities, those communities decide. Nothing goes ahead without their written mandate, and the Crown's duty to consult stays with the Crown.
Video
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Your opinion
Three questions. Under a minute.
Is this a problem for you, and would this idea help? Your answers are counted with everyone else's.
