Residents of the Rural Municipality of Dauphin will have a chance to ask questions about the future of the Dauphin Regional Health Centre at a town hall meeting on July 30, 2026. The hospital has been shut down since July 1 after heavy rainfall caused catastrophic flooding. The meeting, posted on the RM of Dauphin website on July 23, is a key opportunity for the community to hear directly from health officials about recovery plans and alternative services.
On July 1, 2026, 115 millimetres of rain fell between June 28 and July 1, causing extensive damage to the hospital’s basement where its main power source was housed. The flooding was part of a record-setting June for Dauphin, with 211 millimetres of total rainfall, making it the second-wettest June on record. The City of Dauphin declared a local state of emergency that same day.
The damage forced the evacuation of 54 patients to other facilities across Manitoba. Twenty-four of them were sent to Brandon Regional Health Centre. The province announced on July 10 that renovations are expected to take between nine months and one year. Prairie Mountain Health CEO Treena Slate said service disruptions will continue for several months, and some services may resume on a staggered basis.
Restoring the emergency department and diagnostic imaging are top priorities. In the meantime, residents needing emergency care can go to Ste Rose Hospital, which is open 24 hours a day, or Grandview Emergency Department, open 12 hours a day. A temporary Assessment Clinic with four beds is running at the Community Health Services building near the hospital.
Premier Wab Kinew said the province is committed to speeding up repairs. “We’re starting to get the preliminary estimates of how big an undertaking this is, and we are going to throw a ton of resources and time and energy towards accelerating that as much as possible,” he said. The town hall offers locals a direct line to officials managing the long road back to normal health services in the Parkland Region.
