Alberta Healthcare

• Endometriosis care delays force Alberta woman to seek help abroad: ‘Just want my life back’

  'I shouldn't have to go out of country. I feel like I should be able to get that care and that help here where I am, but it's just not possible,' said Talia Assu-Gregg, 20.

  Health

  Jan 20
  
• Alberta premier to launch health care changes in 2024: ‘One goal can’t wait on the other’

  Premier Smith is set to take scalpel and bone saw to Alberta's $17-billion health-delivery system in 2024, while simultaneously scrambling to keep and find more family doctors.

  Health

  Dec 30, 2023
  
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• Alberta premier hints at ‘other arrangements’ as Dynalife struggles with lab services

  Since DynaLIFE began providing lab services across Alberta last year, complaints have piled in from patients describing challenges in accessing services like blood tests.

  Canada

  Jun 13, 2023
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• Alberta NDP raises concerns about lack of funding for rural health care

  Alberta's NDP says the only hospital in a town south of Calgary faces potential closures in its emergency department because the United Conservative Party has not supported it.

  Politics

  May 15, 2023
• Alberta election: High River doctors raise concerns over shortages in rural health care

  Doctors in High River, south of Calgary, say the town has lost a quarter of its complement of physicians over the last three years due to retirement, relocation and burnout.

  Health

  May 12, 2023
• Alberta election: NDP Leader Rachel Notley promises health care improvements

  Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley says her government would expand the hours of medical clinics as part of an overall plan to improve health care in the province.

  Canada

  May 2, 2023
• ‘Capacity challenges’ at Alberta hospitals mean no New Year’s baby announcement

  A popular New Year's tradition will not take place in 2023 because of the pressure Alberta's healthcare facilities are currently under. 

  Features

  Dec 30, 2022
• Alberta health-care unions demand meeting with Copping, Premier Smith

  Several Alberta health-care unions joined forces Monday to insist on a meeting with new premier Danielle Smith to 'develop a plan to deal with the crisis in health care.'

  Health

  Oct 24, 2022
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• Fort Saskatchewan obstetrics unit closing temporarily due to staffing shortage

  Pregnant patients who planned on delivering at the hospital will need to adjust their birth plans to instead deliver at the Sturgeon Community Hospital, according to AHS.

  Health

  Aug 5, 2022
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• Alberta health officials provide final ‘regularly scheduled COVID update’

  Health Minister Jason Copping said there were 661 Albertans in hospital with COVID-19, 17 of those patients were being treated in the ICU.

  Health

  Jun 22, 2022