{"id":953048,"date":"2026-10-31T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T10:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953048\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T10:48:18","slug":"new-daycare-opening-with-priority-given-to-parents-working-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953048\/","title":{"rendered":"New Daycare Opening With Priority Given to Parents Working in Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/paul-dinn-1.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"New Daycare Opening With Priority Given to Parents Working in Health Care\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Dinn &#8211; Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>A new childcare centre is being opened up in the old Costco building on Stavanger Drive, with the children of health care workers getting priority access to a space.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years that facility has been transformed into the <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/01\/06\/nlhs-offering-tours-of-new-urgent-care-centre-on-stavanger-drive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unity Health Centre<\/a>, which includes things like ambulatory care and urgent care.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/maria-gentle-the-executive-director-of-the-ywca-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315129\" class=\"wp-image-315129 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/maria-gentle-the-executive-director-of-the-ywca-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-315129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Gentle \u2013 Executive Director of the YWCA (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Now, a daycare with up to 72 spaces will be established at the site and run by the YWCA.<\/p>\n<p>About $1-million from the federal and provincial governments has been set aside for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Joedy Wall believes the new centre will \u201ccertainly\u201d help with <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/10\/01\/311992\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recruitment and retention<\/a> of health care workers. He hopes that other similar facilities can be opened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/joedy-wall-unity-health.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315128\" class=\"wp-image-315128 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/joedy-wall-unity-health.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-315128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joedy Wall \u2013 Minister of Health and Community Services (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>He says he would \u201clove to see that,\u201d and is open to working with the department of education and the federal government on that front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Paul Dinn &#8211; Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development (VOCM News) A new childcare centre is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-953048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953048","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=953048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}