Family Care Clinics

• Alberta Premier Hancock says patient safety secure despite clinic plan rollback

  Alberta Premier Dave Hancock says patients won't suffer if the province doesn't meet its target of 140 new family care clinics.

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  May 2, 2014
  
• Alberta putting $45M into family care clinics

  Health Minister Fred Horne said Thursday that these will be part of small community networks where many health professionals team up to give patients several services.

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  May 1, 2014
  
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• Concerned residents, town officials discuss future of health care in Slave Lake

  About 200 people came together for a public meeting in Slave Lake Wednesday night to discuss the future of health care in their community, after four local physicians handed in their resignations late last year.

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  Feb 20, 2014
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• Slave Lake residents worried after 4 doctors resign

  In November, four doctors at Slave Lake’s family care clinic resigned on the same day, leaving many residents wondering what will happen to health care in their community.

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  Dec 19, 2013
• Redford government rolls out second wave of Family Care Clinics

  Twenty-four new Family Care Clinics (FCCs) are going to be opening in communities around the province.

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  Jun 4, 2013
• Province to announce more family care clinics; but is the model successful?

  The creation of family care clinics across Alberta was an election promise that generated a lot of backlash for Premier Alison Redford last year. The government pushed forwarded with its plan, though, opening three pilot clinics. And now, just over a year later, it's planning on announcing more. But does the system work?

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  Jun 3, 2013