North Battleford Community Practice Profile

Clinics, Hospitals and Services

Approximately 19,000 people live in the Battlefords (North Battleford and neighboring Battleford) with a larger catchment of over 100,000 people living in neighboring towns, villages and First Nations communities.
North Battleford is home to 3 long term care facilities; Battlefords Union Hospital; Saskatchewan Hospital, the provincial psychiatric rehabilitation hospital; Hopeview Recovery Center, an impatient addictions treatment centre; Youth Mental Health services, and several family practice and specialist clinics.
The Saskatchewan Hospital is a 284-bed provincial psychiatric facility that replaces the former 156 bed hospital. The facility includes 188 psychiatric rehabilitation beds and a 96-room secure wing for offenders living with mental health issues. The hospital serve patients from across the province who need longer-term psychiatric rehabilitation and whose needs cannot be met in local inpatient mental health facilities. The Battlefords Mental Health Centre is a 22-bed acute inpatient unit attached to the Battlefords Union Hospital.

Practice Profile

The team in North Battleford comprises of physicians, nurse practitioner, mental health counsellor, Nurses, dietitian, specialists and other health professionals. There is an opportunity to support the opiate addiction recovery services (OARS) clinic, provide outpatient, inpatient, long-term care and on-call services to residents of the Battlefords.