Julie Green

Yes, thank you. I thought for a small moment I might go through longterm care without Hay River, but no. Okay, happy to talk about that.

It's important for the Member to know that the planning work and design work has already started on the Hay River longterm care unit, and it's based on the 24bed model. And I think that the Member knows that it's going to be located adjacent to Woodland Manor once H.H. Williams Hospital is demolished. And I understand that in the future, should there be a need for a much greater number of beds, there's room on that campus to add another pod or wing of longterm...

Yes, thank you for the question. I'll start, and then I'll turn to Perry; he's to fill in some of the details.

So a design firm has been contracted to provide a design for the facility, and I think they're moving towards having a draft available to share with the department and the people who are going to be most intimately involved in the wellness and recovery centre. The schedule now is for the RFP for construction to go out next year. And I think that the centre itself won't be ready until the end of 2023, the beginning of 2024. But if I don't have those right, Mr. Heath will correct me...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for the question. The staff component at Stanton Territorial Hospital is 466 and the vacancy rate was 13.1 percent as of June 30th. And there are 61 positions that were actively being recruited for as of June 30th. Those are the most recent statistics I have. Thank you.

Yes, thank you. That's not our intention. The intention is that we are going to use an international needs assessment tool to assess people for the longterm care bed needs, and there will be a threshold of nursing and support services required before people are offered beds in longterm care. I am aware that in some cases now, people with special needs are in longterm care, and think that's a default because there hasn't been accommodation for them elsewhere. But you might know that we're doing a supported living review at this point, where we're trying to develop an interritory model for...

Yes, thank you. I'd again like to direct this question to Mr. Elkin.

Yes, thank you. I don't have that information with me, but I'm going to look at Mr. Elkin to see if he can give us an estimate.

Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, indeed, it is a priority of a new system. It's not possible with our current system, and so it would be a great upgrade to be able to offer people direct access to their own records.

I can send the Member notification that it's on budget and on time. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you for the question. I'm unable to answer that specific question. What I understand is that the obstetrics team has started to reach out to the families who will be disrupted by the closure of the Stanton obstetrics unit and finding out what their needs are in order to understand whether we need to do some systemic changes to accommodate families who will be going to Alberta to give birth. So at this point, I can't say specifically what measures we are going to offer beyond those that are already in place for everyone who travels for medical travel. Thank you...

Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. We don't have in the business plan or the capital plan a plan to build more shelters in more communities in the NWT. We have some supports available to people in remote communities such as a help line and the Department of Justice offers the emergency protection order program to assist as well. We realize that that is not the same as having a shelter. There is money available to bring people in to a family violence shelter. It's my experience that often women want to leave their communities in order to obtain safety. In the event they want to stay, the emergency...