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Here’s what happened when a courageous medical officer of …
WEBThe sudden firing of a medical officer of health was a shocking development in Alberta politics. On Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002, the medical officer of health for the Palliser Health Authority in southeastern Alberta was informed he’d been terminated for speaking out on the harmful health impacts of burning fossil fuels and expressing his support for …
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Expect more chaos in health care, already overwhelmed and at the …
WEBIf by a balanced result he means a balanced budget, that may not be possible if AHS intends to meet its promised high standard of care. But just as seriously, this places the blame for the state of the health care system exactly where it doesn’t belong – on the nurses and other health care workers who are bailing hard to keep the ship afloat.. It’s …
Bill 30, the UCP’s health care omnibus bill, is bad, but not as bad as
WEBThe two most striking features of the health care omnibus bill introduced yesterday by the United Conservative Party are that it opens the door to a higher degree of privatization and two-tier health care and escalates Health Minister Tyler Shandro’s feud with the Alberta Medical Association. Neither is a positive development if you want an […]
Alberta Health Services ordered back to the future: A catastrophe …
WEBWhat’s wrong with this picture? According to Danielle Smith’s mandate letter to Health Minister Adriana LaGrange, this will “create a more collaborative working environment for our health care workers by incentivizing regional innovation and increasing our ability to attract and retain the health care workers we need.”. How likely is this to …
Danielle Smith delivers more promised chaos in health care with …
WEBThe politically inspired purge of senior Alberta Health Services officials by the United Conservative Party that has now begun is likely to paralyze decision making throughout the provincial health care system.
Conservative Danielle Smith vows to dismantle Alberta Health …
WEBAfter that, conditions will get worse. Wednesday is when Premier Danielle Smith has promised us her health minister will present a plan to cabinet to “decentralize,” “reform,” “reconfigure,” or whatever, Alberta Health Services.. Call it what you will, the conventional wisdom in health care is that the chaos the Smith Government now …
No surprise, Alberta’s privatized surgery clinics don’t seem to be
WEBReduced surgical wait times would be the biggest single mark of success for the health care system under the United Conservative Party, Dr. John Cowell said in February 2023 when he gave his interim report as …
Even more stuff Danielle Smith says: Privatize major public …
WEBSpeaking to a conference on “meeting the health care challenge” on October 23, 2021, a few days less than a year before she assumed office as Alberta’s premier, Ms. Smith laid out a plan to sever major public hospitals from Alberta Health Services and privatize them.
Verna Yiu, fired in April as Alberta Health Services CEO, named
WEBDr. Yiu was a staunch defender of public health care, and therefore had the potential to be a well-placed opponent to UCP privatizers. While AHS Board Chair Gregory Turnbull praised Dr. Yiu for her “tireless leadership through the worst days of the pandemic” and thanked for “her years of dedicated service and commitment to AHS and to …
Premier Smith to nurses and doctors: Forget about measures to …
WEBOn Wednesday at a news conference, the actual decider about public health matters, Premier Danielle Smith, delivered her response: forget about it. The letter from UNA President Heather Smith, which was also addressed to Premier Smith and Health Minister Jason Copping, implored the government “for the sake of Alberta’s …
Back to the future: UCP set to announce plan to bust up AHS, add …
WEBNever mind health care, the UCP also plans to get rid of its ethics commissioner, who recently authored a critical report about Premier Smith’s interference in the justice system on behalf of a political ally, as …
A national pharmacare program at last
WEBNever mind that the Liberals and NDP said the details of the plan they’ve agreed to will be made public this week. As Chris Gallaway, director of Alberta’s Friends of Medicare, said in a statement yesterday morning, “by pre-empting their decision on Pharmacare even before the federal announcement is made, Danielle Smith’s …
AHS to Pincher Creek docs: We made a mistake, we gave it to you, …
WEBHowever, NDP Heath Critic David Shepherd yesterday published the letter sent by Dr. Auld to one of the nine physicians in the Pincher Creek Associate Clinic, so you don’t have to take some blogger’s word for it. “Attached is the on-call schedule for August 2020,” Dr. Auld’s letter told Dr. Samantha Myhr.
Today is last day on job for AHS VP Deb Gordon, highest-ranking …
WEBDeb Gordon, AHS’s vice-president and chief operating officer of the organization’s clinical operations, “has been a competent and compassionate leader within AHS and former legacy health regions who through her mentorship and leadership has built strong teams and community across the province,” Mr. Chies told his management …
Bizarre UCP plan would see Alberta patients and their Alberta docs
WEBWhat the hell was the Kenney Government up to last fall when it had the brainstorm to compel Alberta Health Services to ship patients and their surgeons to an apparently under-used surgical facility in British Columbia’s Okanagan? The saga involving what NDP Opposition leader and former premier Rachel Notley called the “slightly less …
Sarah Hoffman knows who she is and has no apologies – and she …
WEBSo get used to it, and don’t imagine having an army of Internet bots tweeting mean things about her will make any difference! In case you were wondering, as some obviously have been, something else the health minister in Ms. Notley’s cabinet from 2015 to 2019 is not going to pretend to be is a Liberal. Under her leadership, she vowed, the …
Danielle Smith dodges and weaves, but doesn’t deny, report …
WEBThe media caught up to Ms. Smith at a press conference after The Globe and Mail published its scoop that, “in addition to ordering AHS to remove references to specific vaccines, the government instructed the health authority to limit information on vaccine benefits and efficacy.”. The purpose of the news conference, ostensibly, was to …
Emphasizing hope and inclusion, Naheed Nenshi gets a warm …
WEBMr. Nenshi repeated his signature shot at the United Conservative Party from his March 11 leadership campaign launch – “this government is like nothing I’ve ever seen before, they’re not only incompetent, they’re dangerous, and they’re immoral.”
Danielle Smith summons Ed Stelmach, Lyle Oberg from the Alberta
WEBIt was an interesting strategy for Premier Danielle Smith’s government to trot out former premier Ed Stelmach, the man most associated with the creation of Alberta Health Services back in 2009, to act as a validator at the announcement yesterday of her plan to smash the province-wide health care agency to smithereens.
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