r/Airdrie • u/Mr-Rocafella • 14d ago

New Covenant Health run health centre coming to Airdrie

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/premier-danielle-smith-in-airdrie-for-health-care-announcement/
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u/mystiqueallie 14d ago

Faith-based health care? Gross.

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u/fukwitchu 14d ago

Im opening a science based church down the street

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u/DoughnutPlease 12d ago

I'll sign up

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u/Firstanlastpost 14d ago

It’s public healthcare ya dipshit. Be grateful

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u/annoyedCDNthrowaway 14d ago

It's not public healthcare if it's not equal and available to everyone. Covanent regularly denies gender affirming care as well as women's services on the grounds of religion.

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u/Stikhawk 14d ago

And MAID.

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u/mystiqueallie 14d ago

They also do not permit MAID on its sites.

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u/xp_fun 13d ago

And, because this is likely what this is really about, access to women's health options, specifically abortion and IVF

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u/cookies_mom 14d ago

Women going through perimenopause and receiving hormone therapy. Men going through hair loss treatment. Just to name a couple…

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u/RumbleMule 12d ago

Gender affirming care needs to be abolished anyway.

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u/annoyedCDNthrowaway 14d ago

Boo. Keep religion out of healthcare.

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u/RedCaptainWannabe 14d ago

Why, I thought Jesus took care of it?

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u/TheCuddliestofFarts 14d ago

By the time this is built, it will be short staffed and over crowded waiting rooms.

I'm still excited, it's something. But damn.. a little too late.

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u/dune667 14d ago

I waited 15 min in urgent care sept 7 8:00 am, excellent service.

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u/Mr-Rocafella 14d ago

I went on Saturday evening and it took 3 hours. Not bad all things considered, last time before that was 3 years ago in the morning and that was like your experience, maybe 10 mins of waiting

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u/Trialsnorth 14d ago

Eww... Why is it a Faith-Based and a Private Company? Why isn't AHS just giving Airdrie a Hospital. I mean Medicine Hat, Red Deer, Fort Mac, Devon (pop 6,965) and Leduc have their AHS run hospitals..

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u/TheCheckeredCow 14d ago

I suspect the Vatican is paying at least a small portion, they pay for all kinds of strange things across Canada like the majority of small Québec local (secular) festivals, Small town community renovations to public buildings, and lots of local Filipino community events there in YYC to name a few weird things.

Also Catholic Health institutions and outreach programs/companies are very rarely for-profit. I’d rather have this than not have this if it weren’t to have happened if it did not have to have Catholic involvement. Though in my ideal world this place would be secular.

As for why doesn’t Airdrie have a hospital? It’s because distance wise we’re functionally a neighbourhood in Calgary and they want us to use Calgarian facilities instead. Somebody in small towns like Didsbury have to have one because that distance to a major hospital would result in a lot of people dying on the ambulance ride there. Why olds next door had one though is beyond me. I do 100% believe we deserve a hospital of our own for our size though

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u/TheDarklingThrush 11d ago

Olds is 15 minutes away from Didsbury and significantly larger, especially when you factor in the College. It makes sense for Olds to have a hospital. It doesn’t make sense for Didsbury to also have one.

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u/ontherise88 14d ago

Cool. When is the hospital coming? When is more transit coming? Schools? Or are they making way for another new community? The traffic here in the last few years has become crazy. Cars, cars and more cars.

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u/tellmemorelies 14d ago

Unfortunately, Airdrie population needs any kind of healthcare center badly, a city of almost 100,000 with no hospital......... they will take anything they can get and the UCP knows it.

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u/TheCheckeredCow 14d ago

I mean I’ll take it, also (I might have miss interpreted the last part of your comment) Prairie Conservatives/North American Right Wing have always had a hatred/distain for Catholics and there institutions, so I really doubt this is some hidden agenda to force a religious (Catholic) ran medical care facility.

I would rather it didn’t have anything to do with the Vatican, but I’d rather have it than not. Maybe my own Catholic upbringing (I’m non practicing as an adult) has desensitized me to this though?

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u/v13ragnarok7 14d ago

So urgent care wait times can go from 18 hours to 14. Awesome

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u/EesaWhy 12d ago

The reviews for these are so so bad. 

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u/benny_adam 14d ago

It will be crowded serving northern calgary as it will be the closest emergency if nothing opens up there.