Alberta Health Services

• Coaldale announces support for Lethbridge physician recruitment efforts

  Coaldale's hospital has downgraded to an ambulatory care clinic, yet the town's population continues to grow, as do residents' concerns of where to find a doctor.

  Health

  Dec 18
  
• Alberta paramedics sound the alarm over shift vacancies ahead of the holidays

  An Alberta paramedic is raising concerns that more than 200 paramedic shifts are currently vacant on Christmas Eve, Day and New Year's Eve.

  Health

  Dec 12
  
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• Family of Indigenous man who had braids cut off in Alberta hospital calls for change

  Crowe said her uncle was a day school survivor and that because it wasn't culturally safe to have long hair while in school, he decided to grow his hair out when he became older.

  Health

  Dec 10
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• Alberta health care worker speaks out about AHS changes

  Last year the Alberta's United Conservative government announced it would be restructuring health care in the province.

  Canada

  Nov 25
• LaGrange says new Alberta hospital agency to be up and running in the spring

  The United Conservative Party government is breaking apart Alberta Health Services as part of a major overhaul.

  Health

  Nov 18
• Alberta Health Services preparing to handle increased respiratory illnesses

  Alberta's respiratory virus tracker shows lab-confirmed COVID cases have nearly doubled since September. AHS says some hospitals are experiencing high occupancy levels.

  Health

  Nov 13
• Edmonton family ‘hit a wall’ trying to refill 8-year-old son’s dwindling medication

  The military family is running out of their son's medically necessary human growth hormone medication they brought when relocating from Turkey to Edmonton.

  Health

  Oct 22
• Plans for a new cardiac testing lab in Lethbridge move to the next stage

  The Alberta government says planning for a new cardiac catheterization lab at Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge is moving into the next phase.

  Health

  Oct 22
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• Woman frustrated by hip replacement delay at Edmonton hospital

  In 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.

  Health

  Oct 17
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• Uber analogy for continuing care does not mean more Alberta health privatization: Smith

  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's Uber analogy sparked concern from public health care advocates and the Opposition NDP that further privatization plans are afoot.

  Politics

  Oct 17