Medicine Hat Regional Hospital receives provincial funding
CALGARY – The Medicine Hat Regional Hospital is among the health care facilities receiving funding in the 2017 budget.
The local hospital, which wrapped up a $267 million expansion last year, will receive $39 million in funding over the next four years.
The hospital will receive an estimated $12 million in 2017-18, followed by $10 million for the next fiscal year, $9 million in 2019-20, and $8 million in 2020-21.
The provincial budget set aside $21 billion for the Ministry of Health, the largest ministry to receive funding this year. In addition to the Medicine Hat hospital, the Ministry of Health has set aside $400 million over four years starting next year for a new hospital in Edmonton.