Alberta Health Services is trying to bring more doctors to Hinton after several interruptions at their healthcare centre this year.
The Hinton Healthcare Centre had interruptions at its ER department on September 19 and 26 during the evening. There also weren’t any physician present from September 9 to September 11.
In June, Hinton council declared a local health care crisis and provided the Hinton Health Care Foundation with $1 million dollars that they spread out over two payments of $500,000 over a two-year span. At the time, the Town said the number of local doctors had gone from 15 to just eight over the past five years.
Hinton has 12 primary care physicians who support the Hinton Healthcare Centre right now, as well as two general surgeons, one radiologist and one recently hired orthopedic surgeon. AHS is recruiting an additional five family medicine physicians in Hinton.
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