{"id":758624,"date":"2026-06-24T19:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/758624\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:18:12","slug":"mou-marks-next-steps-for-prince-albert-urgent-care-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/758624\/","title":{"rendered":"MOU marks next steps for Prince Albert Urgent Care Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/73ad6ce0-30c4-439e-bdd4-8d9e02be3d44-scaled.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Health Minster Jeremy Cockrill. (Image Credit: Kenneth Cheung\/battlefordsNOW Staff))<\/p>\n<p>By paNOW Staff<\/p>\n<p>Partnerships <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 24, 2026 | 10:58 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Saskatchewan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Big River First Nation (BRFN) and Montreal Lake Cree Nation (MLCN) to advance the development of a new Urgent Care Centre (UCC) in Prince Albert.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This UCC will offer residents of Prince Albert and the northern part of our province an alternative to emergency departments for illnesses and urgent injuries that are not life threatening, as well as mental health supports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased to enter into this partnership with\u00a0Big River First Nation and Montreal Lake Cree Nation to advance planning\u00a0for the new Urgent Care Centre in Prince Albert,\u201d Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill said. \u201cWe are proud to work with our Indigenous partners to put patients first by enhancing access to healthcare services for patients and families in Prince Albert and northern Saskatchewan.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Prince Albert UCC<a href=\"https:\/\/panow.com\/2025\/07\/09\/sask-government-pushes-ahead-with-urgent-care-expansion-despite-regina-staffing-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> is one of five centres advancing in planning<\/a> as part of the government\u2019s $4.3 billion 2026-27 Capital Plan, with additional centres in Saskatoon, Regina, Moose Jaw and North Battleford also progressing to expand access to non-emergency, same-day health services across the province. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Minster Jeremy Cockrill. (Image Credit: Kenneth Cheung\/battlefordsNOW Staff)) By paNOW Staff Partnerships Jun 24, 2026 | 10:58&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-758624","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\/758624","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=758624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}