The Bridge Healing Transitional Accommodation Program will provide temporary housing for houseless patients who leave the emergency department at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

Edmonton emergency physician Dr. Louis Francescutti said a shigella outbreak among the city's most vulnerable is unprecedented — but also could have been avoided.

A health advocacy group is calling on the Alberta government to spend more money on disease and injury prevention programs, by funding an independent foundation at a cost of $170 million a year.