EDMONTON – Alberta doctors are, on average, the highest paid in the country compared with their counterparts in other provinces, according to a new study from the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
The institute’s national physician database compiled billing and compensation information from all provinces from 2010-11, the most recent year such statistics are available.
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Gasping for breath, Brent Boychuk’s voice was raspy and uneven through the phone.
“He said, ‘I’m going down,'” recalls his wife Annie, through tears.
“And that was it.” The brief message her husband left her, minutes before he died, haunts the central Alberta mother.
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In terms of a Christmas bonus, we should all be so lucky as the City’s development permits tally was this week.
Phase II of the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital expansion was included among the permits approved for Wednesday’s meeting of the Municipal Planning Commission.
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The number of doctors in Alberta has surged in the past decade, outpacing the national growth rate, according to a Canadian Institute for Health Information report.
Between 2001 and 2011, the number of physicians in Alberta increased by roughly 3,100, or 60 per cent, compared with the national growth rate of 23.9 per cent, the report found.
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Between icy winter roads and summer road construction, Calgarians are often stuck in rush hour traffic on a cross-city commute — which isn’t where any of us want to be.
I know I’d prefer an extra 15 minutes under the covers to staring at the seemingly endless row of tail lights stretching across Deerfoot Trail.
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It was a day Bragg Creek residents had long been waiting for: the grand opening of a new health care clinic directly in the centre of the hamlet.
The new centre will be accessible to 2,500 households in Bragg Creek, the Tsuu T’ina Nation, Redwood Meadows, Springbank, Priddis, and Millarville.
The newly created Mountain Woods Health Services Board was incorporated as a non-profit company and two years ago a fundraising campaign was launched in partnership with the Calgary Rural Primary Care Network.
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The Sylvan Lake and Area Urgent Care Centre Committee is stepping up its efforts to bring a medical facility to the community. READ