Nurses at High Prairie Health Complex set up information pickets Aug. 11 to share concerns about government action with health care.
Members of the United Nurses of Alberta held Day of Action across Alberta to send a message to the Alberta government on issues in the public healthcare system.
“Our main message is to motivate people to contact their local MLA and provincial government and tell them Alberta nurses deserve to be treated with respect,” says Jan Robinson, president of the UNA Local 17, which covers High Prairie hospital, acute care, emergency room and J.B. Wood Continuing-Care Centre.

The Town of High Prairie is keeping its mandatory face covering [mask] bylaw.
Council defeated a motion to rescind the bylaw at its July 27 meeting in a tie vote. A majority vote is needed to pass any motion.

There was no major announcement for the High Prairie region during a tour by provincial politicians July 30, but local politicians did get a chance to bend their ears of their esteemed visitors. Lesser Slave Lake MLA Pat Rehn was accompanied by Alberta Minister of Infrastructure Prasad Panda. Panda again committed the demolition of the old High Prairie Health Complex and took to Twitter afterwards to make a statement.

The best way to a more prosperous Alberta in the future is to leave Canada and go it alone.
So says Paul Hinman, the interim leader of the Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta.
“The central government [in Ottawa] is the demise of our country,” says Hinman, who delivered a speech to a small group at Brandy’s in High Prairie April 28.

Concerns about reduced services and a shortage of physicians and staff at the High Prairie Health Complex have become a priority for the provincial health minister.
Big Lakes County council shared issues with Health Minister Tyler Shandro at its regular meeting March 24.

The Town of High Prairie council faces challenges with funding cuts for provincial capital grants in the coming few years.
Cuts to the Municipal Sustainability Initiative [MSI] program were announced in the provincial budget Feb. 25.

Almost four years after the buildings were vacated, the old High Prairie Health Complex will be demolished in the coming months.
The Government of Alberta announced plans Feb. 3 to level the old hospital, J.B. Wood Nursing Home and the old EMS station and garage, all owned by Alberta Health Services.