Alberta Health Services

• Alberta nurses union wants weapons screening, more officers at hospitals due to violence

  The United Nurses of Alberta is also calling on the Alberta government to acknowledge violence in emergency departments is linked to overcrowding and lack of capacity.

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  Apr 9
  
• Patient stabbed in Royal Alex ER waiting room as dozens witness attack

  A man is in life-threatening condition after a stabbing inside an Edmonton emergency room, as politicians and officials raise concerns about hospital safety.

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  Apr 4
  
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• Lethbridge firefighter-EMS concerned about potential service provider changes

  Emergency Health Services Alberta is looking at possibly changing who provides ambulance care in Lethbridge and other communities if certain funding isn't met.

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  Mar 24
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• RCMP search MHCare, company linked to Alberta health corruption probe

  MHCare Medical, a medical supply company caught up in allegations of corruption involving Alberta surgical contracts, had its office in Edmonton searched by the RCMP.

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  Mar 19
• Medical wait times costing Canadians billions in lost wages, productivity

  The 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.

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  Mar 10
• ‘I felt like a nobody’: Woman says care denied without reason at Pincher Creek hospital

  A 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.

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  Jan 30
• Patients detail ‘disaster’ inside emergency departments of Alberta hospitals

  Health 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.

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  Jan 28
• Opposition calls on premier to reconvene Alberta legislature over hospital crisis

  Calls 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.

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  Jan 20
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• Alberta doctors hope new E.R. triage physician role is properly resourced

  Alberta doctors are hoping a new pilot project to introduce triage physicians into emergency department waiting rooms is properly resourced.

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  Jan 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.

  Health

  Jan 9