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A public meeting to guage interest in a Personal Care Home in Swift Current was held at the Sky Centre in January.

 

Swift Current is the only city in Saskatchewan without a personal care home, but that could soon change.

An initiative group has been working hard for the last 18 months to try to bring one of these private care homes to the city, and co-chair Peggy Worrell says they have made great progress, and are in discussions that could bring a Licensed Personal Care Home to the city as early as next year.

 

 

Worrell adds they are also looking to procure the Swift Current Care Centre to use as a non-profit Personal Care Home after a new long-term care centre is built, saying that the committee feels strongly that the land should be preserved for the benefit, enjoyment and care of people who need Level 1 or 2 care, rather than develop it for a different purpose.

 

She says the group is also lobbying the provincial government to subsidize the costs of building and living in a personal care home, saying that there is a long-standing inequity where nursing homes and seniors housing is subsidized by the province, while there is no funding for those who want to build, live in or operate Personal Care Homes, and will raise the issue ahead of this fall's election.