Shoal Lake has been without a doctor since 2022, and the recent hire of a nurse practitioner is good news for the community, says Merv Starzyk, the mayor of the Rural Municipality of Yellowhead.

The new nurse practitioner brings their complement up to three, and will help ease the workload on the other two who are providing care for patients at the Shoal Lake-Strathclair Health Centre and the Yellowhead Community Clinic.

“We now have three [nurse practitioners], we’re sharing her with Rossburn,” Starzyk said.

“The addition of another nurse practitioner is definitely welcome. The gals here were getting kind of swamped with some long hours, because the other surrounding communities are short,” he said.

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