Saskatoon Health Region

Saskatoon Health Region is one of the most integrated and complex health delivery agencies in Canada. We are the largest health region in Saskatchewan serving more than 300,000 residents in over 100 cities, towns and rural municipalities. Saskatoon Health Region is the largest single employer in the province with over 11,000 staff and 750 physicians across the Region providing a complete range of health services to residents of central and northern Saskatchewan. The city's three acute care hospitals St. Paul's, City and Royal University comprise the tertiary teaching centre for the province. .

Canadian Light Source (CLC) Synchrotron the $173.5M Canadian Light Source synchrotron, a national facility owned by the University of Saskatchewan, is the largest science project in Canada in more than 30 years. This facility is a unique national resource that will light the way to a new era of science an innovation for academic, industrial, and governmental researchers. The BMIT (Biomedical Imaging and Therapy) beam line should be functioning by late 2006. This will allow imaging of the body, to a resolution several-fold greater than ever before. Furthermore, precisely targeted radiation therapy will be possible. An active CLS Users Group headed by Dr's Bill Tomlinson and Dean Chapman (Anatomy and Cell Biology) is available for consultations with clinical faculty.

Incentives

Saskatchewan Health is currently offering two grants for health workforce employees: a Relocation grant for $5,000 and a Northern/Rural/Hard-to-Recruit grant for up to $15,000. Funding is provided to health workforce employees who agree to provide a specified return-in-service commitment to work in the province. For further information, visit our website at http:// healthcareersinsask.ca/Careers/llcu/incentives.html.