{"id":636037,"date":"2026-04-29T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636037\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:45:10","slug":"nivervilles-town-owned-medical-clinic-bought-for-1-in-2020-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636037\/","title":{"rendered":"Niverville&#8217;s town-owned medical clinic, bought for $1 in 2020, expands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from a medical clinic the Town of Niverville purchased for $1 paid for its new expansion.<\/p>\n<p>New exam rooms, in what used to be hotel rooms at the Niverville Heritage Centre complex, were unveiled in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The town bought Open Health Niverville in 2020 as its surging population increased demand for doctors. Niverville&#8217;s population has grown from fewer than<a href=\"https:\/\/www12.statcan.gc.ca\/census-recensement\/2006\/dp-pd\/prof\/92-591\/details\/Page.cfm?Lang=E&amp;Geo1=CSD&amp;Code1=4602046&amp;Geo2=PR&amp;Code2=46&amp;Data=Count&amp;SearchText=Niverville&amp;SearchType=Begins&amp;SearchPR=46&amp;B1=All&amp;Custom=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> 2,000 in 2001<\/a> to a town-estimated 8,000 today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we move our community to 12,000 people here over the next decade, we&#8217;re looking forward to some really large expansions when it comes to our medical care facility in our community,&#8221; deputy mayor Nathan Dueck said. <\/p>\n<p>He is also president of the non-profit Niverville Health Care Services, which the town created to run the clinic.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 patients use the clinic each day, said Sheyna Andries, Niverville&#8217;s director of health services.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion brings the total exam rooms to 15, including two minor invasive procedure beds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Building with bike out front\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777452310_972_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.840843720038351\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Open Health Niverville is owned by the town and run by its non-profit Niverville Health Care Services. (Christopher Gareau\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can do sutures, suture removals. We can do the lumps and bumps procedures, if you will. So, that goes with mole removals, skin biopsies, IUD insertions,&#8221; Andries said. <\/p>\n<p>The two doctors who sold their clinic to the town, Chris and Mairi Burnett, are both retiring this spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That will leave the town with 14 doctors available to work part-time at the clinic. The town continues to recruit more physicians, with the goal of expanding hours and services.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion took 16 months to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Niverville Health Care Services has spent $370,000 on the clinic over the past six years, town spokesperson Cyrus Reimer said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-636037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636037","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=636037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}