East Edmonton Health Centre

Brian Mason, MLA Edmonton Highlands Norwood, and Leader of Alberta's NDP Opposition is standing up with the community in east Edmonton to demand that the PC government provide vital medical services promised over 2 years ago.

What Can You Do to Help? Take Action!

1. Contact our office (edmonton.highlandsnorwood@assembly.ab.ca) and request some of our advocacy postcards to tell the Minister of Health to fully open the health centre now! Distribute them to your friends, neighbours, and co-workers!

2. Write to the Minister of Health & Wellness directly, calling on him to provide the small amount of funding required to staff the brand new facilities that are currently sitting empty.

Background

The East Edmonton Health Centre was built to replace the former Eastwood Primary Health Care Centre. The project was announced by the Alberta government in 2007 and was originally scheduled to be opened in Spring 2009. When the brand new facility finally opened in June 2010, the urgent care and family medicine units remained closed. The Stelmach government has refused to provide the $9 million per year in funding to open the facilities. At a time when emergency rooms at the Royal Alexandra Hospital are backed up enormously, these parts of the East Edmonton Health Centre that were built to deal with that problem remain closed.

"When we get along to phase 2 – that’ll take about a year to two years, perhaps slightly more to build that added capacity into the system..." - Gene Zwozdesky, Alberta's Minister of Health and Wellness (Nov. 2, 2010)