The Regina Urgent Care Centre will temporarily scale back operating hours over the next two days due to limited physician availability.<\/p>\n
The Saskatchewan Health Authority announced the reduced schedule Saturday, saying the centre will now close at 2:00 p.m. rather than its usual 9:30 p.m. closing time on Sunday, Nov. 9 and Monday, Nov. 10.<\/p>\n
Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, Nov. 11.<\/p>\n
The province told the public that the reduced schedule was necessary to maintain patient safety, and advised anyone experiencing a medical emergency during the affected hours to visit Regina General Hospital or Pasqua Hospital.<\/p>\n
The centre, which opened in July 2024, is Regina’s only urgent care facility and was Saskatchewan’s first. These adjustments to operating hours follow previous reduction periods, including temporary cuts this past July due to staffing gaps.<\/p>\n
This will be its fourth temporary closure since the centre’s opening. The Saskatchewan NDP criticized the province for failing to live up to its health-care promises following similar staffing struggles earlier this year.<\/p>\n
At the time, in a statement, the SHA said the centre had treated over 41, 000 patients and was functioning “as intended.”<\/p>\n
Still, it continues to face staffing challenges as the province works toward eventually delivering full 24-hour service \u2014 a goal the centre was originally advertised to meet by the fall of 2024.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year the SHA announced construction on the Saskatoon Urgent Care Centre is over 25 per cent complete.<\/p>\n
With an expected spring 2026 opening, the 24-hour seven days a week facility will become the second urgent care centre in Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Regina Urgent Care Centre will temporarily scale back operating hours over the next two days due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84,124904,124905,124903,55796,124902],"class_list":["post-272417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-operating-hours","tag-physician-availability","tag-regina-general-hospital","tag-saskatchewan-health-authority","tag-urgent-care-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}