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Prairie North: LIVE
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Prairie North Health Region offers many programs and services through 26 distinct facilities or sites within the vast geographic area of the region.
There are local community colleges in Lloydminster, North Battleford, and Meadow Lake. Lakeland College is located inLloydminster, while Northwest Regional
College has campuses in North Battleford and Meadow Lake.
Economically, the western part of Prairie North, especially around Lloydminster, is vibrant and growing, with significant oil and gas exploration and development. The northern section around Meadow Lake is bustling with activity in forestry and related industries. The southern and eastern parts of the health region are primarily agriculture and service industry based. The central areas of the Region abound with a combination of these activities.
Prairie North Health Region is home to Canada's only border city: Lloydminster, Saskatchewan/Alberta. This presents unique opportunities and challenges to the provision of health services for people living under differing provincial jurisdiction. Lloydminster was ranked #1 in Western Canada for Best Places to Live by Moneysense Magazine.
Prairie North Health Region is the only health region in Saskatchewan that is home to two regional hospitals: Battlefords Union Hospital (71 beds) in North Battleford, and Lloydminster Hospital (53 beds) on the Saskatchewan side of Lloydminster. This too presents many opportunities and challenges.
Saskatchewan's only provincial psychiatric rehabilitation hospital - Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford - is located in Prairie North Health Region. Once the Battlefords single largest employer and known provincially and nationally for its innovation in the provision of mental health services, the institution, its clients and programming continue to occupy a special place of "ownership" in the community's consciousness. SHNB, as it is known, is also home to the province's only Forensic Services program.
According to the Financial Post's Emily Mathiel, North Batteford is one of 10 towns and cities on the cusp of a boom where an entrepreneur might want to set up shop. Construction of Cogema Resources Inc's $450 million uranium mine
is scheduled for completion in 2007, during which time about 400 people are working at the site, with 250 or so to be permanently employed. There will also be a processing facility in North Battleford. " A mine that size will have a massive impact on the surrounding communities," said Pierre Gratton, Vice President Sustainable Development and Public Affairs for the Mining Association of Canada.
For further information on some of the communities in Prairie North Health Region, please refer to their websites as per the links below.
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