Tag Archives: Health
Councillor calls lack of cardiac care ‘a blight’ on Red Deer
Ken Johnston isn't mincing words when discussing the need for hospital and medical service expansion in Red Deer."It's a blight, it's a scar, it's a mark on how we are delivering health care in centra...
Feb 19, 2020 Ken Johnston says the lack of cardiac services in Red Deer can no longer be ignored (rdnewsNOW/Troy Gillard)
Time is Life returns this March for improved cardiac care
RED DEER: Time is Life, formally known as Time is Muscle, sponsored by John and Joan Donald returns for its third year on March 28, 2020 at the Cambridge Red Deer Hotel and Conference Centre.The aware...
Feb 18, 2020
Government silent on Red Deer hospital expansion: NDP
A year after the former NDP government promised Red Deer hospital expansion, central Albertans continue to await word from the current UCP government on if and when that will happen. NDP Health Critic...
Feb 18, 2020 (rdnewsNOW file photo)
Flight to evacuate Canadians from cruise ship 'expected' to depart Japan on Thursday
Canadians stranded on a quarantined cruise ship were told that a flight set to bring them home is "expected" to depart Tokyo Haneda Airport on Thursday amid an outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Passe...
Feb 18, 2020
Do you know the 1-10 rule?
They are walking along the almost deserted surf beach. He says, “I don’t think you should swim in this water, it’s dangerous.” As she heads into the water she looks back a...
Feb 16, 2020
CTF: Time to unmask the American health-care boogeyman
When anyone proposes tinkering with health care delivery in Canada they are usually met with a loud and incessant "Canadians don't want American-style health care!"Canada officially recognizes 195 cou...
Feb 13, 2020
People's Bus takes health care and senior's care concerns to minister's riding
A bus carrying dozens of Albertans concerned about the government's actions regarding health care and senior's care made a stop near Red Deer on Wednesday.The People's Bus, chartered by Friends of Med...
Feb 12, 2020 Dozens of people concerned about the direction of Alberta's health care and senior's care systems boarded the People's Bus enroute from Edmonton to Calgary on Wednesday to bring those concerns to Minister of Health Tyler Shandro in the constituency of Calgary-Acadia. (rdnewsNOW/Sheldon Spackman)
Local couple miss chocolates but 'life is good' on quarantined cruise ship
A husband and wife from central Alberta say they are "feeling quite happy and relaxed" quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in the port city of Yokohama, just outside Tokyo.Lolit...
Feb 11, 2020
Four-year-old Red Deer boy fighting brave battle with leukemia
A 4-year-old Red Deer boy is in the fight of his life right now at Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton.In September, Daxton Schlosser was diagnosed with acute leukemia. He has since undergone che...
Feb 10, 2020 Four-year-old Daxton Schlosser of Red Deer was quite content, at least for a moment, while spending time recently at Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton. (Supplied)
Nurses to rally in Red Deer over contract talks
EDMONTON- The United Nurses of Alberta are planning a province-wide demonstration on Thursday over the current state of collective bargaining negotiations with the province.Members of Local 2 (Red Dee...
Feb 10, 2020