Second health clinic gives Blackfalds residents more local choice
A second health clinic opens this week in Blackfalds, lessening the growing community’s shortfall of medical services.
Apollo Health Centre will welcome its first patients on Sept. 6. — starting with people 60 and over — at 5001 Aspen Lakes Blvd., meaning fewer families will have to seek health care outside the community of just over 11,000. Other families will start being served Sept. 7.
Last year, Blackfalds town council, along with administration and community members, struck the Blackfalds Health Practitioners Attraction and Retention Committee (BHPARC). The group took various steps to attract health organizations and doctors to the town.
“To assist with recruitment and retention, we have teamed up with BHPARC who are diligently helping us with recruitment,” explained Dr. Muti Kauchali, the clinic’s founder. “They have set up some incentives for doctors to move into Blackfalds as part of the retention plan.”