August 16, 2024
JASPER — The emergency department (ED) at the Seton-Jasper Healthcare Centre reopened yesterday, August 15, at 9 a.m.
Patient safety and care remain our top priorities, and we are working hard to ensure the community has urgent care available.
No additional services at the Seton-Jasper Healthcare Centre are re-opening at this time. Inpatient admissions are temporarily paused. EMS remains available to the community and will transport patients to nearby facilities as needed.
The Seton-Jasper Healthcare Centre was temporarily evacuated and closed due to threat of local wildfires on July 23.
All appointments with laboratory services, diagnostic imaging, mental health and public health in Jasper continue to be postponed at this time. Clients will be contacted directly by AHS to be rescheduled as soon as possible. Home care clients impacted by the evacuation have been contacted to arrange for alternative home visits and support from nursing teams.
AHS is working to resume all health services to Seton-Jasper Healthcare Centre as soon as possible.
We are extremely grateful for our frontline teams, staff and physicians who have come together to support the response across AHS. This includes the support from our EMS partners who had crews safely staged and available near the town throughout evacuation to ensure care remained available for those responding to the wildfire.
We thank our staff and teams for their collaborative efforts in supporting the safe evacuation of our patients and residents, and for their continued hard work in preparing the safe re-opening of the healthcare centre for patient care.
AHS provides wildfire resources for Albertans at ahs.ca/wildfire, including mental health, air quality, and emergency planning links.
Alberta Health Services is the provincial health authority responsible for planning and delivering health supports and services for more than four million adults and children living in Alberta. Our mission is to provide a patient-focused, quality health system that is accessible and sustainable for all Albertans. Our current focus is on reducing emergency department wait-times, improving EMS response times, increasing access to surgeries, and improving patient flow.
