Alberta Health
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Alberta nurse practitioner program reducing primary care provider gap: Health ministerAdriana LaGrange says 33 nurse practitioners are now taking patients across the province and another 23 have been approved to practise primary care similar to a family physician.HealthNov 20
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LaGrange says new Alberta hospital agency to be up and running in the springThe United Conservative Party government is breaking apart Alberta Health Services as part of a major overhaul.HealthNov 18
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Alberta in talks to attract transgender health specialists to the provinceEarlier this year, Premier Danielle Smith said the province would begin efforts to attract those specialists so Albertans wouldn't have to travel out of province for care.PoliticsNov 5
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Alberta pharmacists says cuts will hurt care: ‘No one can work for free’The Alberta Pharmacists' Association said the cuts are particularly demoralizing, as a family doctor shortage has led to more Albertans relying on pharmacists for medical needs.PoliticsOct 23
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Edmonton family ‘hit a wall’ trying to refill 8-year-old son’s dwindling medicationThe military family is running out of their son's medically necessary human growth hormone medication they brought when relocating from Turkey to Edmonton.HealthOct 22
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Woman frustrated by hip replacement delay at Edmonton hospitalIn a statement issued to Global News on Thursday, Alberta Health Services offered details on what the status is of the hospital's ability to perform such procedures currently is.HealthOct 17
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Uber analogy for continuing care does not mean more Alberta health privatization: SmithAlberta Premier Danielle Smith's Uber analogy sparked concern from public health care advocates and the Opposition NDP that further privatization plans are afoot.PoliticsOct 17
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Alberta to launch new primary care agency by next month in health overhaul: LaGrangeAdriana LaGrange says Primary Care Alberta will work to improve Albertans' access to primary care providers like family doctors or nurse practitioners.HealthOct 15
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Some Albertans will ‘fall between the cracks’ if pharmacare deal not signed: expertA health policy expert is warning some Albertans will fall through the cracks if the province doesn’t reach a pharmacare deal with the federal government.PoliticsOct 11
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Alberta hospitals overcapacity heading into cold, flu season: ‘Packed to the gills’The respiratory virus season hasn't even kicked into high gear yet but hospitals in the Edmonton Zone are already operating overcapacity and turning some patients away.HealthOct 9
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