Tom Beaulieu

We don’t have the detail of why the cost has escalated with us here today, but we can provide that detail to the committee.

According to the integrated service delivery model we are using and have been using for a while that we are updating, there would be a savings of travel, that’s true, of medical travel and so on. To what degree I don’t have that information here with me, because we haven’t tested that to the degree where we are trying to put a service in Tsiigehtchic, but we haven’t cost out to what degree that would save by having a registered nurse in Tsiigehtchic at this time.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The plan is for a major upgrade, a major renovation at Stanton. The hospital would almost be completely renovated right from one end of the hospital to the other end of the hospital. There could even be additions. So it would depend on how the planning studies come out.

We’re at the stage of the planning studies… When you’re doing renovations to the hospital you can realize that you can’t shut the hospital down, right? I think everybody knows that. So what would happen would be that if we were planning on doing a renovation, or as we plan to do a renovation, the...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I will get the assistant deputy minister to provide the cost details of what has been spent to date.

We’re coming forward with the business case for the three authorities that have requested – the two authorities and the agency, Tlicho Community Services Agency – to provide flexibility in their funding.

Thank you, Madam Chair. To my right is Debbie DeLancey, deputy minister of Health and Social Services. To my left is Derek Elkin, assistant deputy minister of Health and Social Services.

Mr. Chair, based on the assessment, we determine what is needed. Generally there is usually one room needed, even if it is used frequently. There is only usually one room needed. If there is a need for a second room to be added for this use, then we would incorporate a second room into either a renovation or a new design, depending on the need.

I think part of our business is to try to… We are looking at having an actual youth treatment program. An example of something we looked at was having a summer program in, say, Nats’ejee K’eh. If that was the facility we chose to continue to fund, then maybe having one program per year where we would treat youth.

Youth – I think I was not clear – are usually court ordered or forced to go to treatment by their parents. There are very, very few that ever volunteer. That’s anywhere in the country. There are very few youth that actually volunteer to go to treatment.

The Member is right; this is in the Inuvik Regional Hospital. We will be incorporating this into the Hay River Health Centre and also into the renovations that would be… We would plan it into the renovations of Stanton.

I understand that in order to continue to use a facility that may have reached the end of its life, we would have to coordinate that with a technical department like Public Works and Services so that if there are upgrades necessary, we need to determine the costs of continuing to use the facility regardless of what it would be used for. We would have to do some sort of technical evaluation to determine whether or not we would be better off just to build something new.