Construction now complete, new Calgary Cancer Centre is handed over to AHS yyc AHS abpoli ableg
With construction complete, Alberta Infrastructure on Friday officially handed over the imposing glass and steel structure on the northeast corner of the Foothills Medical Centre to Alberta Health Services, which will now fill its space with state-of-the-art, life-saving equipment and the staff to operate it.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“We understand there’s a shortage of staff in Alberta and we’ve already taken a number of steps to increase seats in post-secondary education,” said Health Minister Jason Copping.Darren Makowichuk/PostmediaThe new cancer centre, say AHS officials, will require considerably more staff, but it’s still not clear what that number will be.Not so sure is NDP health critic David Shepherd, who said the UCP government hasn’t put out the welcome mat for health-care workers.
At 186,000 square metres, it’s expected to be the largest hospital of its kind in Canada and the second-largest in North America.Darren Makowichuk/Postmedia Patient demand outstripped the Tom Baker Cancer Centre within three to four years of its opening, while many patient services have been scattered throughout the city, said Morris.
Work on the site, which has employed up to 1,600 employees at one time, continued during the height of the pandemic and despite a COVID-19 outbreak in May 2021.There had also been concerns supply chain issues could delay completion of the project, which at one point was expected to open in 2023.Article content
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