After over a year of construction, the Leader and District Integrated Healthcare Facility is in the final stretch of completion.
 
In February of 2017 construction began on the facility, and now there are only a couple more items remaining on the to-do list.
 
Brenda Schwan, executive director of continuing care for the Saskatchewan Health
Authority, says that work on the acute care side and the ambulance garage is continuing.
 
"Small deficiencies in the long-term care side and just getting all those and everything else done," she said. "They're still in the acute care side. They're working on the final flooring, final paint coats are going on, the ceiling tiles are going in, and the mechanical system is just about complete." 
 
Schwan says that they've now completed renovations on all three of the long-term care homes and that residents have moved in.
 
"Our last house opened on April 13. We had some residents that were over at the hospital that were now able to come back to long-term care, so that was very exciting," she said. "Then we also had some residents that were on the waitlist that we haven't been able to remove from the waitlist and be able to remove from the waitlist and move into our new long-term care."
 
The three long-term care homes feature 30 beds with 29 resident rooms and one short-term stay room.
 
"It's taking shape," she said. "You can really start to see the building, how the different departments will flow together, how equipment is going to fit into there."
 
The $12-million capital project is slated to open this summer.