Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Patient focus in new hospital planning

Five Hills Health Region exercise therapist Dot Hicks
talks about one of the initial models conceived this past
week for the new hospital at the report out on Friday.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Patient Rick Farrant had his doubts about the new hospital and for him being involved in the planning process this week.

“(I was) very skeptical. (I) thought I’d been sucked into something that I had no business being in,” said Farrant, who has continuing cardiac health problems. “When I came back after lunch, they were actually asking me things. I wasn’t an outsider anymore. They wanted to bring me into the circle and that amazed me … I have a future now.”

Farrant was one of approximately 45 participants involved in the Five Hills Health Region (FHHR)’s third session of new hospital planning 3-P (production preparation process) that took place from Monday to Friday. The report out was presented on Friday after a week of brainstorming.

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