Committee working to recruit several physicians to Blackfalds
Efforts are ramping up in the town of Blackfalds to recruit more physicians to the community.
Annamarie Fuchs, chair of the Blackfalds Health Professional Attraction and Retention Committee (BHPARC), says the community is in desperate need of more doctors.
“We have one very part-time physician who is nearing retirement and a population of almost 10,000 people and one of the youngest communities in the country,” explains Fuchs. “Over a 10-year period we’ve more than doubled our size. We’re starting to lose physician support.”
Formed in August of last year, Fuchs says the committee was spawned after town council recognized the strategic value in attracting a critical mass of doctors to the community.