Alberta Paramedics

• Thousands of Edmonton ambulance shifts unstaffed in 2022: provincial data

  From January to October, there have been an average of nearly 54 vacant paramedic shifts per day.

  Canada

  Jan 10
  
• Alberta to use shuttles, taxis to transport some patients in effort to improve EMS

  Premier Danielle Smith announced the province-wide program Wednesday to free up ambulances and paramedics so they can respond to emergency calls more quickly. 

  Health

  Dec 21, 2022
  
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• Alberta paramedic responds to serious crash resulting in death of daughter: ‘My worst nightmare’

  In the end Erickson said her daughter was "able to give one last gift" — the gift of an organ donation, adding two of the organ donations by Montana were life-saving.

  Canada

  Nov 22, 2022
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• Alberta paramedic killed in collision to be given full EMS honours procession

  Primary care paramedic Dallas Boyko will receive a full EMS honours procession ahead of her celebration of life on Wednesday.

  Traffic

  Sep 20, 2022
• Family of injured Calgary hockey player outraged after ambulance never arrives

  A Calgary family is speaking out after their 14-year-old son was hit while playing hockey and blacked out. They say they waited 45 minutes for an ambulance that never showed up.

  Health

  Sep 13, 2022
• Alberta to table report with new recommendations to ease EMS pressures

  The report, drafted by the Alberta EMS Advisory Committee, will outline 10 new recommendations to improve access to EMS services across the province.

  Health

  May 26, 2022
• Data shows Alberta’s emergency medical services in crisis: NDP

  The Alberta Health Services Emergency Medical Services quarterly dashboard from early April shows ambulance response times in urban areas got progressively worse in the past year.

  Health

  May 11, 2022
• Young women can kick-start their careers as first responders in new Calgary camp

  Camp Courage was founded by Nova Scotia firefighter Andréa Speranza in 2006 as a way to get more women into the first responder career field. 

  Canada

  Apr 26, 2022
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• ‘I was praying they would hurry’: Calgary woman waits almost 3 hours for ambulance

  A Calgary woman waited nearly 3 hours for help after a bad fall. First responders say this is an unfortunate reality with wait times getting worse.

  Health

  Apr 11, 2022
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• Alberta EMS funding details released; union says there’s no staff

  Further details were released of the increase in funding to EMS in Alberta, but the province's largest paramedics union says there's lots of room for improvement.

  Health

  Mar 10, 2022