Parking Services Rules and Guidelines
Demonstrating CARES Values
Compassion - ensure accessible parking stalls are available closest to building entrances for patients and visitors and reviewing inquiries with extenuating circumstances.
Accountability - maximize parking availability for patients, visitors and healthcare providers.
Respect - demonstrate empathy and care through meaningful interactions with patients, visitors, staff, and physicians.
Equity - ensure access to parking for all visitors and patients through parking lot monitoring.
Safety - monitor maintenance of parking structures and lots to ensure they are accessible, well lit and clear of snow.
Parking Services Purpose Statement
Parking services supports and enables safe and accessible parking options for patients, visitors and healthcare staff.
General Guidelines
To help ensure safety and smooth traffic flow for patients, families, visitors and staff, please park only within marked parking stalls or in areas clearly designated for parking. Parking on roadways, sidewalks, or landscaped areas is not permitted. This demonstrates courtesy to others by ensuring your vehicle is fully within the boundaries of a single parking stall and not extending into adjacent or opposing stalls, cross dividers, or block traffic lanes, roadways, or passageways.
When using stalls marked “Small Vehicles Only,” both the vehicle and any accessories must fit entirely within the stall boundaries.
Staff cooperation is requested to ensure your vehicle is parked in the designated lot(s) indicated on your assigned permit.
Vehicles must comply with any posted time limits. Unless prior approval is obtained from Parking Services, vehicles may not be parked continuously for more than 48 hours.
If a vehicle becomes inoperable while parked, please contact Parking Services as soon as possible. Parking Services or Security will assist where possible or may authorize temporary parking, provided the vehicle does not create a safety concern or obstruction.
Any vehicle accidents should be reported promptly to the Security Office or to the appropriate Manager or Supervisor at your location.
Parking Infractions
To help maintain safe and accessible parking areas, parking infractions may result in a parking ticket and/or towing charges in the following circumstances:
- Parking in areas with restricted parking signage.
- Parking outside designated stalls in a way that obstructs traffic.
- Parking in fire lanes or clearly marked no-parking zones.
- Using a disabled parking stall without a valid permit.
- Parking at an expired meter.
- Stopping or parking on sidewalks or laneways.
User Accountability
Privately owned vehicles are parked and operated at the owner’s and operator’s sole responsibility. Saskatchewan Health Authority is not responsible for loss or damage to vehicles or their contents, including damages, expenses, or inconveniences related to power outages, electrical plug-ins, or energy demand load shedding.
Saskatchewan Health Authority will not be liable for
- Damage or loss unless it results directly from the negligence of an employee or agent acting within the scope of their employment.
- Damage, loss, or inconvenience resulting from vehicles being removed, towed, impounded, or immobilized in accordance with parking regulations.