Health

Saskatchewan Health Care

• Saskatchewan has been a leader in health care for almost 50 years.
• Saskatchewan pioneered universal hospital care insurance in the 1940s and comprehensive medical coverage in the 1960s.
• Saskatchewan is now concentrating on the "wellness" model, promoting preventive care and innovative service delivery with a system of health care regions across the province.
• The provincial and federal governments fund health care in Saskatchewan.
• There are no personal premiums or personal charges for basic and needed health services
• Employers do not pay premiums for provincial health care costs for their employees


If you are new to Saskatchewan and have come from another part of Canada, you must register for health coverage. As a general rule, coverage will begin on the first day of the third calendar month following the date you established residency here. (This excludes people who are eligible for benefits under other Saskatchewan or federal programs).

You will have no interruption in health coverage if you move within Canada, as your home province covers you until your Saskatchewan benefits take effect.
Application forms are available online, or from town, village, and rural municipal offices. Click here for an Application form

Five Hills Health Region
The Five Hills Health Region (FHHR) is the fourth biggest district in the province and offers fiscally responsible health services. Recent reforms in the provincial health care system have co-ordinated all health services, including nursing homes and ambulance service to exist under a District Health Region. The Five Hills Health Region represents the City and surrounding municipalities, a combined population over 55,000. Moose Jaw is a regional health care centre with one major hospital facility and a district home care service.

Moose Jaw Union Hospital
Moose Jaw Union Hospital offers major acute care facilities in the REDA region. It offers comprehensive general health care services and provides specialist care in medical, paediatrics and maternity, mental health, emergency patient, ambulatory care, CT Scanner and most orthopaedic and general surgeries. Services include laboratory, diagnostic imaging, physiotherapy, cardiac rehabilitation, and diabetic counselling.

Providence Place
Providence Place specializes in providing geriatric assessment, rehabilitation, continuing care, and outreach services for day patients. It works closely with the Thunder Creek Rehabilitation Association to provide assessment and treatment to homebound patients.

Valley View Centre
Moose Jaw's Valley View Centre provides excellent care and is the province's only long-term care facility for persons with intellectual disabilities. The centre continues to meet high national care standards. Valley View Centre has 265 beds, provides expanded long-term care, medical and therapeutic services. It is located in Moose Jaw and is operated by Saskatchewan Social Services.

Home Care
Thunder Creek Rehabilitation Association is based in the City and has a nursing staff of over 25. They provide home nursing services, meals-on-wheels, palliative care and assessment services.

Out Patient Clinics
Moose Jaw has five outpatient clinics and is home to approximately 40 physicians and surgeons. Specialist care in internal medicine, gynaecology and obstetrics, paediatrics, orthopaedics, plastic surgery and allergies is available.

Rotary Villa
The facility is owned and operated by the Moose Jaw Health Foundation. Rotary Villa provides temporary accommodation for patients, day patients, people requiring out-patient services, and immediate family members of patients who are receiving medical treatment and related services in Moose Jaw.

Teen Wellness Centre
The Teen Wellness Centre provides a place for teens that is safe, fun, educational and supportive. Staff provide support in many ways: listening, counselling, mediating, assisting with resumes, providing computer assistance, or having a friendly chat, etc. Youth are offered self-help and educational programs such as anger management, issues facing youth, recreational programs, and much more.

Moose Jaw Health Foundation
The Moose Jaw Health Foundation is a registered non-profit organization that was incorporated in 1986. Volunteers help raise funds to supplement government funding for capital expenditures to continue to provide adequate equipment, facilities and professionals for the community.

Hyperbaric Chamber
Having officially opened at Moose Jaw Union Hospital on November 14, 1997, the Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) program and chamber provides a unique therapy, which had not been available in either Saskatchewan or Manitoba. The therapy involves breathing 100% oxygen for up to 90 minutes while resting inside a pressurized chamber. It is the treatment of choice for carbon monoxide poisoning, cyanide poisoning, decompression sickness, gas embolus, and gas gangrene infection. It is also useful to assist problem wounds (i.e. diabetic) and skin grafts, radiation tissue injuries, crush injuries, burns and certain infections. For further information contact 694-0314.

Permanent CT Scanner
The permanent CT Scanner, introduced in 2004 services residents within the Five Hills Health Region. The CT Scanner uses advanced x-ray and computer technology to produce three-dimensional images of the body.

Renal Dialysis Program
Renal Dialysis is for the treatment of patients with kidney failure. This program, introduced in 2004, offers greater flexibility for patients who require regularly scheduled treatments and can receive care within the Health Region.

Patient Education

• Cardiac Rehab
• Diabetic Program
• Diet Counselling
• Smoking Cessation Program

For further information contact (306) 694-0230.

Quality Of Care Coordinator
The District Quality of Care Coordinator helps clients and families address their concerns about health services, inform people about their rights and options, and identify trends and opportunities that improve the delivery of health services.

To contact the Five Hills Health Region Quality of Care Coordinator call (306) 694-0271.

Police Protection

Moose Jaw Police Service
The Moose Jaw Police Service is a progressive law enforcement agency composed of approximately fifty police officers and twenty non-police personnel. By using proven community protection programs the police department has ensured that the city of Moose Jaw will continue to be one of the safest cities in Canada.

The Moose Jaw Police Service has been involved in a number of initiatives. A crime analysis has been adopted in order to track and analyze crime trends in the city. The intent of this program is to assist police in targeting individuals who are criminally active and geographic areas at greatest risk.

The Moose Jaw Police Service offers some important services. For example, the Community Services Unit works with community groups such as businesses, schools, government and youth to prevent crime and disorder. The Moose Jaw and District Victim Services provides support to crime victims by trained volunteers.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The City of Moose Jaw is the location of the fourth largest Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment in Saskatchewan. The detachment services the majority of communities within the Moose Jaw REDA service area.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) works with communities to ensure the safety of all Canadians. It enforces federal laws, provides contract policing to many cities, towns, villages, and municipalities and First Nations communities province wide. The RCMP participates in peacekeeping efforts and supplies world-leading expertise in areas like forensics and criminal intelligence to regional and international police services.

Fire Protection
The Moose Jaw Fire Department is a professional, 'Career' Fire Fighting Department represented by two fire stations, Headquarters Fire Station located at Main Street North and Saskatchewan Street, and Lillooet Fire Station located on the 700 block of Lillooet Street West.

The Moose Jaw Fire Department has signed 'Fire Protection Agreements' with the Rural Municipalities of Moose Jaw, Baildon, Marquis, Pense, and the Villages of Sun Valley and South Lake, ensuring 'response-on-request' for fires outside the City limits. The department is under contract to provide structural fire suppression services to 15 Wing Moose Jaw and also has a 'Mutual Aid Agreement' with the R.M. of Caron and responds if requested by the Caronport Fire Department.

The Fire Inspection Division is responsible for fire investigations, fire inspections, community services, and the Emergency Measures Organization. This Department is also proud to be one of the sponsors of the Risk Watch Program, a comprehensive injury prevention program designed for children from pre-school to grade eight. Moose Jaw's Fire Department was chosen over twenty other communities in North America by the National Fire Protection Association to pilot this new program. The Risk Watch Program is currently being presented in four schools in Moose Jaw and, plans are in place to increase the number of schools involved in Risk Watch until every grade school in Moose Jaw is teaching the Risk Watch Program.

Legal Drinking Age
Saskatchewan liquor laws dictate that individuals must be 19 years old or older to consume alcohol.