Some Northern Health Offices to Move Into OSI Building

Thursday, April 30, 2009 04:07 AM

Prince George, B.C. – One of the vacated call centres in downtown Prince George will soon have new tenants.

The OSI building on Third Avenue will be the new home to some groups under the umbrella of Northern Health. The occupants will not be health service providers, but corporate office employees.

Micheal Hoefer, Executive Director of Capital Planning and Support Services is not able to say just which department will be moving into the old Kresge building “First I have to see which group would be the best fit and result in the least amount of renovations”. He hopes everything will be in place to see the OSI building occupied by early summer.

Hoefer says Northern Health is already fully occupying the 3^rd, 6^th and 7^th floors of the HSBC building and some space on the 8^th floor of that building at Victoria and Third. He adds there is a need to relieve congestion in offices at PGRH as well.

While it has entered into an agreement on leasing the OSI office space, Northern Health is also looking at the possibility of renting the space at the rear of that building on Third which used to be occupied by Synovate, the other call centre which recently closed. “We need to ensure we have enough swing space and flexibility through the next number of years” says Hoefer.

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Comments

Posted by: doc on April 30 2009 6:20 AM

Any chance there's room for a couple of operating rooms in there??

Posted by: RUEZ on April 30 2009 8:15 AM

I guess it's good to know there will be more than enough admin to send out bills and order new linen. Too bad there won't be enough doctors and nurses to do the important work.

Posted by: seamutt on April 30 2009 8:38 AM

I wonder if any of these people are looking for a doctor?

Posted by: just the facts on April 30 2009 10:41 AM

no they don't care about people yes they should make the care better and have make sure the people of pg and the north

Posted by: gus on April 30 2009 1:05 PM

I wonder if they could cut their staff and service facilties such as meeting rooms, copy centres, reception, etc. by 20% if they were all to move to one building? That sounds to me that the building on Edmonton is only about 1/3 or 1/4 of the space they nowe occupy throughout the city. I wonder if they are still in the North Meadows school as well?

Could be a new 6 storey office building downtown ...... or if Council is still interested in sprawlsville, a nice 2 storey spread with reflecting pool/skating rink, atrium gardens, green roofs, etc. etc at the old golf course.