Airdrie Urgent Care to close for electrical work this week
Posted Jun 2, 2025 9:27 am.
Last Updated Jun 2, 2025 11:01 am.
Residents of Airdrie will be temporarily without access to the city’s Urgent Care Centre later this week.
Alberta Health Services (AHS) says the Urgent Care Centre at the Airdrie Community Health Centre will be closed from 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 3 to 7 a.m. on Wednesday, June 4 for required electrical upgrades.
AHS says nursing staff will still be on site during the closure to help with redirection to other emergency departments in neighbouring communities. There will also be access to EMS services as required.
Patients needing care will have to travel to Calgary’s Peter Lougheed Centre Emergency Department, which is 29 kilometres away, or the emergency department at Didsbury District Health Services, which is 45 kilometres away.
With a population of more than 88,000 recorded in the 2024 census, Airdrie is the largest Alberta municipality without its own hospital.
In March, the province announced it was putting $2 million toward planning for another urgent care facility in the city operated by One Health.
The proposal for the first-of-its-kind-clinic, dubbed a one-stop-shop for healthcare, raised concerns about for-profit healthcare when the proposal was made public last August.
