Regina Urgent Care Centre sees more than 500 patients in 1st week of operations

The Regina Urgent Care Centre has been engaged since opening its doors arsenic they person provided attraction to much than 500 patients truthful far.

The centre first opened connected July 2 arsenic portion of a phased approach.

Tom Stewart, Acute Care Regina executive head pinch nan Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA), said location are much than 130 health-care professionals and physicians who are delivering patient-centered attraction astatine this facility.

“The opening of Saskatchewan’s first urgent attraction halfway successful Regina represents a awesome measurement successful nan city’s efforts to heighten entree to wellness attraction services for patients arsenic adjacent to location arsenic possible,” said Stewart.

“The installation provides attraction to those who request urgent but not emergent curen for wellness attraction concerns specified arsenic fevers, stitches, suspected surgery bones aliases those successful request of contiguous intelligence wellness and addiction support.”

The first time of operations, nan Regina Urgent Care Centre saw 108 group who were provided care. Overall, Stewart added, nan first week of nan Regina Urgent Care Centre was a “momentous success” arsenic unit and physicians supported a full of 575 patients including those seeking intelligence wellness and addiction support.

“We treated patients for illnesses and injuries, including abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, cuts requiring stitches, and suspected surgery bones needing an X-ray,” he said.

“The urgent attraction centre’s multidisciplinary teams are moving intimately together by addressing diligent concerns, problem solving, curen solutions, and getting to cognize each other’s roles and responsibilities arsenic they present a caller exemplary of care.”

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The mean hold times for patients seeking aesculapian attraction astatine nan urgent attraction centre are anyplace betwixt 1 to 4 hours. Patients tin entree attraction 7 days a week from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m.

The Regina Urgent Care Centre is group to unfastened 24 hours a time starting successful nan fall.