Tag Archives: Health
Residents invited to take part in David Thompson HAC Community Conversation
RED DEER - Alberta Health Services (AHS) and the David Thompson Health Advisory Council (HAC) invite local and area residents to a virtual Community Conversation about Virtual Health services in the D...
Jan 12, 2021
Alberta paramedics, emergency medical responders eligible for COVID-19 vaccines
Alberta's COVID-19 vaccination program is being expanded to include more health-care workers. "Starting right away paramedics and emergency medical responders will also be eligible to receive the COVI...
Jan 11, 2021
Red Deer with 240 active COVID-19 cases as of Monday
Alberta reported another 639 cases of COVID-19 on Monday.That's out of 9,838 test results over the past 24 hours for a positivity rate of 6.1 per cent.There are now 13,917 active cases in Alberta, dow...
Jan 11, 2021
Kenney to give update on COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Alberta's premier and health minister will deliver an update this afternoon on the province's response to COVID-19. Jason Kenney and Tyler Shandro are to speak at a news conference scheduled to begin ...
Jan 11, 2021
Alberta RCMP reviewing whether COVID-19 death of meat-plant worker was criminal
CALGARY - RCMP in Alberta are reviewing whether the COVID-19 death of a worker at a Cargill meat-packing plant last spring is a criminal matter.Cpl. Tammy Keibel, district media relations officer for ...
Jan 11, 2021
Maskwacis continues to struggle with COVID-19 outbreak
Maskwacis and its four First Nations - Samson, Ermineskin, Montana and Louis Bull - continues to be hit hard by COVID-19.Randy Littlechild, CEO of Maskwacis Health Services, says though a state of loc...
Jan 11, 2021
Red Deer hits 10 deaths from COVID-19
Ten people in Red Deer have now died because of COVID-19.The latest death was reported on Sunday and is one of just 12 more fatalities reported province-wide for a pandemic total of 1,284. The dozen d...
Jan 10, 2021
Alberta adds COVID-19 units to vaccine priority list; 1,183 new cases reported Friday
The provincial government has announced that vaccine appointments will be offered to health-care workers in medical, surgical and COVID-19 units in Alberta starting immediately.This means about 3,300 ...
Jan 08, 2021
Vaccine rollout to 'scale up,' says Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is doing everything it can to obtain as much vaccine as quickly as possible and says Ottawa is co-operating with the provinces and te...
Jan 08, 2021
Population of seniors increasing but generally happy
The Clearwater Regional Family & Community Support Services (FCSS) recently brought attention to councils from the County, the Town of Rocky and the Village of Caroline, that like many municipalit...
Jan 08, 2021