Covenant Health

• Nurses in Alberta to hold ratification vote on mediator-recommended agreement

  The United Nurses of Alberta says an online ratification vote will take place on Oct. 30.

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  Oct 11
  
• Alberta Health Minister says AHS, Covenant Health hospital transfer plan isn’t ‘hard and fast’

  AHS operates more than 100 facilities across the province, while Covenant Health's website lists fewer than a dozen hospitals and rural health centres.

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  Sep 3
  
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• Impending loss of reconstructive surgeon worries Alberta face cancer patient

  Concerns are growing over the potential loss of the main doctor at the Institute of Reconstructive Sciences in Medicine (iRSM) that specializes in face and neck cancers.

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  Jun 10
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• Expanded ER at Misericordia Hospital to open Tuesday, tripling capacity

  The emergency department at the Misericordia Community Hospital will open at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023, promising to triple patient capacity, according to AHS.

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  Nov 19, 2023
• Grey Nuns Hospital temporarily pauses admissions to insulin pump program

  One of two insulin pump therapy program sites in the Edmonton region says it is temporarily pausing new admissions to allow it to catch up on a backlog of new patients.

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  Nov 12, 2023
• Misericordia hospital runs simulations ahead of new emergency department opening

  The Misericordia hospital's new emergency department -- which is nearly three times larger than the current ER -- has been turned over from the construction company.

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  Sep 6, 2023
• 5 Alberta LPNs’ fight to be classified as ‘direct nurses’ continues as some unions push back

  A group of LPNs pushing to have their jobs reclassified as direct nurses is now waiting to hear from the Alberta Labour Relations Board on where their fight goes next.

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  Jul 5, 2023
• Masking no longer required in Alberta health facilities

  With COVID-19 cases in decline, Alberta Health Services is dropping its requirement for people to mask up inside health-care facilities. The change takes effect on June 19.

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  Jun 15, 2023
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• Lawsuit filed after alleged ‘inhumane’ treatment of Indigenous woman and baby at Edmonton hospital

  Pearl Gambler said she was just over 19 weeks gestation with her third child when she had severe lower back pain and went to see her obstetrician in Edmonton.

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  Nov 3, 2022
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• Patients lay for hours on Misericordia Hospital ER floor: ‘It was disgusting’

  Trista Champagne said she was one of many people in pain who ended up laying on the floor while waiting in the Misericordia Hospital ER, after no gurneys were available.

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  Sep 6, 2022