Photo by Liam Verster

By EverythingGP Staff

Grande Prairie Regional Hospital

Premier Kenney to be in Grande Prairie Friday as province hands keys of regional hospital to AHS

Jun 25, 2020 | 5:34 PM

The Grande Prairie Regional Hospital will be officially turned over to Alberta Health Services on Friday.

A release from the province says Premier Jason Kenney, Infrastructure Minister Prasad Panda, Health Minister Tyler Shandro and local MLA’s will be in the Swan City on Friday to mark the end of nearly a decade of construction.

The end of construction will give way to the commissioning process to get the hospital ready for patients.

The ministers and MLAs, along with senior operating officer for the AHS North Zone Stacy Greening, will hold a news conference beginning at around 1:15 p.m., which will be live-streamed on EverythingGP’s Facebook page.

Meantime, in a separate release from AHS, they say that 60 photos by professional and amateur photographers have been picked to decorate the inside of the new hospital.

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Staff and volunteers picked them from the more than 1,300 images submitted during an Alberta Health Services photo campaign last year.

The photos include farmer’s fields, wildlife, flowers, trees, the northern lights, and places like Kakwa Falls.

They all depict a scene from the hospital’s service area, which goes from High Prairie, Fox Creek and Grande Cache to the B.C. and Northwest Territories boundaries.

The images can be seen here.