CALGARY — Sixty per cent of Alberta employees with a workplace benefit plan, who have yet to experience the health-care system, expect their plan sponsor to provide a high level of support, according to the 16th annual edition of The Sanofi Canada Healthcare Survey.
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Medicine Hat was identified as one of 24 communities to benefit from a Family Care Clinic, in the government’s announcement on Tuesday, because the need is greatest for improved access to primary health care.
The City of Medicine Hat is on record with Alberta Health as having expressed an interest in seeing this take place.
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Lethbridge’s northside will have a new family-care clinic, possibly by the end of the year, as it was one of 24 Alberta communities named Tuesday by Premier Alison Redford in need of being able to relieve pressure on overcrowded emergency wards.
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CALGARY – Two seniors homes in southern Alberta are being treated for bedbugs, but health officials say there’s no reason for concern beyond the “ick” factor.
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Construction of the new health facility in Maple Creek is attracting attention as it starts to look more like a building than just a construction site.
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Central Albertans are saving time, money and worry as more use Alberta Health Services videoconferencing for medical appointments.
Red Deer residents Kimberly Bigoraj and her son Brayden, 5, started using Telehealth last November when a severe snowstorm prevented them from going to Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton.
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EDMONTON – Alberta Health Services’ new air ambulance operations at the Edmonton International Airport will include a six-patient care area, as well as the ability to quickly transport urgent patients to city hospitals via a STARS helicopter.
The provincial government outlined details Monday of how its Edmonton-based air ambulance operations will work once it relocates to the Edmonton International Airport in March.
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Still considering a variety of sites for a detox centre in Medicine Hat, Alberta Infrastructure says a business case study will be completed in late December – putting an end to the “ready by 2013” expectation, says a local MLA.
Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Drew Barnes
“I’ve had about 10 constituents call me about the detox centre,” said Drew Barnes, MLA for Cypress-Medicine Hat. “It’s frustrating and unfair being the only city in Alberta without a detox facility.”
A month ago, Health Minister Fred Horne confirmed Alberta Health Service was considering Earl Kitchener School as a possible location for a residential detoxification site.
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EDMONTON – The University of Alberta’s School of Public Health has become the only accredited public health school in Canada and the 50th worldwide, university officials announced Wednesday.
“It clearly sets us apart as a leader in Canada,” the school’s interim dean, Lory Laing, said after the announcement at the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy building on the university campus.
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EDMONTON – Twenty-eight per cent of Alberta Health Services nurses work full time compared with 40.4 per cent provincially and 56 per cent nationally, say provincial health officials.
The imbalance is prompting new efforts by Alberta Health Services to hire more full-time nurses, including new graduates, to ensure Albertans get adequate care.
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