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Nearly two years after the Alberta government announced its sweeping plans to restructure health care in the province, the ...
Alberta plans to transfer emergency medical services to the province’s acute care agency, and promises to invest an additional $40 million towards replacing EMS vehicles as demand for services ...
EDMONTON - Alberta’s Opposition says new data shows health care is in crisis because of long wait times. The Alberta Health Services Emergency Medical Services quarterly dashboard from early ...
Council 14 serves southeast Alberta and will advise government on ways to improve health care and bring forward local priorities.
Alberta, facing crushing demand for emergency medical services and a shortage of available staff, is redirecting calls it deems low priority to other outlets and has stopped sending paramedics to ...
Darren Sandbeck, chief paramedic and senior provincial director of emergency medical services at Alberta Health Services, said demand is now at “historical levels,” in part because of higher ...
Speaking as the leader of the union that represents Alberta’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) employees, Parker observed that “no one calling 9-1-1 is worried about whether it’s EMS or AHS or Acute ...
CALGARY—Alberta’s Liberal Party took the provincial government to task for what party leader David Khan deemed a “crisis” for emergency medical services. With information Khan said the ...
The Alberta government on Wednesday announced an injection of $3.5 million to support rural emergency medical services hard hit by inflation. Some $1.35 million will be earmarked for expanded ...
The new president of emergency medicine for the Alberta Medical Association says ER physicians already coping with long hours, staff shortages and jammed waiting rooms are also being obligated, in ...
The Alberta Health Services Emergency Medical Services quarterly dashboard from early April shows ambulance response times in urban areas got progressively worse in the past year.