Alberta Health Services
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Medical wait times costing Canadians billions in lost wages, productivityThe Fraser Institute released its annual study on the cost of wait times for medically necessary patients, showing lost productivity and wages reached more than $4.2 million.Health6 hours
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‘I felt like a nobody’: Woman says care denied without reason at Pincher Creek hospitalA Pincher Creek woman says she was turned away from the southern Alberta town's hospital without a reason and without care, despite having a genuine medical need to be there.HealthJan 30
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Patients detail ‘disaster’ inside emergency departments of Alberta hospitalsHealth workers say the crisis facing Alberta hospitals, including inadequate staff and funding, not enough infrastructure and a failure to plan, has been years in the making.HealthJan 28
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Opposition calls on premier to reconvene Alberta legislature over hospital crisisCalls for urgent health-care system measures have intensified since the death last month of a man who waited nearly eight hours in an Edmonton emergency department.HealthJan 20
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Alberta doctors hope new E.R. triage physician role is properly resourcedAlberta doctors are hoping a new pilot project to introduce triage physicians into emergency department waiting rooms is properly resourced.HealthJan 16
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‘Absolute crisis’: Alberta E.R. doctors keep pushing for state of emergency'The state of the acute-care system in the Edmonton zone is an absolute crisis. I have never seen it this bad,' said a Royal Alexandra Hospital emergency department physician.HealthJan 9
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‘Frostbite capital’: Efforts to reduce amputations underway in EdmontonThe Hope Mission says the shelter has had to hire more nurses in recent years because a majority of frostbite procedures involve Edmonton's homeless population.HealthJan 5
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Will Alberta’s public-private health approach actually reduce wait times?Health experts are divided on whether allowing surgeons to work in the public and private health systems simultaneously will shorten wait-lists.HealthJan 1
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New legal structure of Alberta health system in place, Premier Smith now eyes resultsDanielle Smith's ongoing effort to re-make, re-assemble and re-animate the pieces of the health-care system hasn't been the Alberta premier's only challenge in 2025.PoliticsDec 30, 2025
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AHS pauses bell ringing ceremony for cancer patients at the StolleryAlberta Health Services said in November it would halt the bell ringing ceremony for cancer patients who had completed treatment. However, it now says the ceremony is only paused.CanadaDec 22, 2025
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