Saskatoon City Hospital Acute Care Capacity Expansion update

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Regina/Saskatoon
Saskatoon

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is adding 109 acute care beds to Saskatoon City Hospital (SCH) and recruiting more than 400 additional staff and physicians — an expansion equivalent to opening a new regional hospital. To support this growth, the SHA will renovate key hospital areas and transition select services into the community.

What’s new?

  • The Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM) Program and Pre-Assessment Clinic (PAC) will be moved to Market Mall in Saskatoon in early 2026.
  • Design efforts are well underway to prepare areas of the sixth, seventh, and eighth floors for acute care bed capacity. The construction contact will be in place in July.
  • Patients in the Transitional Care Unit (TCU) and Convalescent Unit (CU) will be transitioned into appropriate community setting in August 2025.
  • The first 20 medicine beds are targeted to be operational August 11, 2025.
  • Recruitment/hiring has commenced.
  • Staff have the opportunity to be involved in design and workflow development. Working groups are being created to support unit planning at SCH. Cultural components are being considered for the new spaces including rehab, medicine, and long-term care.
  • Operational leads are working through the process of determining staffing workflows and patient admission criteria.
  • There will be training for all transitioning staff at all locations.
Exterior of saskatoon City Hospital