Tag Archives: Health
Report advises changes to Alberta Health Services, could save $2 billion per year
EDMONTON, AB - A benchmark review of health-care delivery in Alberta says the province needs to get better value for the money it spends.The report by Ernst and Young urges the province to make 57 cha...
Feb 03, 2020 AHS
Canadians returning from Wuhan to be quarantined in motel at CFB Trenton
OTTAWA - Health Minister Patricia Hajdu says Canadians returning home from Wuhan will need physical and mental support once they arrive at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, where they will spend...
Feb 03, 2020
Blackfalds toddler fighting long battle with leukemia
A Blackfalds family is set to spend up to another year at Calgary's Ronald McDonald House as their youngest daughter continues her health battle.Rowen Young, who turns three in April, was diagnosed wi...
Feb 03, 2020 Rowen Young (right) with father Jeff, mother Lysanne, and big sister Aismee during their stay in Calgary for treatments related to Rowen's leukemia and subsequent illness. (Supplied)
Needle exchange program coming to Bowden Institution
The union representing correctional officers at Bowden Institution is calling out the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) for its decision to implement a needle exchange program at the institution.Th...
Feb 03, 2020
73 year of inspiration!
I met Jo-ann on day 4 of her 5 day expedition. I had heard other guests at our hostel talking about her amazingness earlier so I was excited to meet this Connecticut woman. If I still did my radio sho...
Feb 02, 2020
Mediator called in for stalled contract talks between doctors and Alberta government
The Alberta government and physicians are bringing in a mediator to help break a logjam in talks on a new master agreement.Health Minister Tyler Shandro says while there has been progress, the two sid...
Jan 31, 2020
Province reaching out to “independent clinics” to do more publicly-funded surgeries
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Privately-run healthcare facilities could soon play a greater role in increasing the number of surgeries being done in Alberta.The Government of Alberta has posted an expression of in...
Jan 31, 2020
Red Deer Food Bank anticipating new opportunities with food regulation changes
Officials with the Red Deer Food Bank Society are anticipating positive impacts from the provincial government's announcement last week that it's changing Alberta's food regulations.On Jan. 23, Minist...
Jan 31, 2020
Update from the province on novel coronavirus
Alberta's chief medical officer of health will provide an update on preparations for the novel coronavirus in light of the World Health Organization declaring it a public health emergency of internati...
Jan 30, 2020 Dr. Deena Hinshaw is Alberta's chief medical officer of health
Coronavirus could halt exchange trip to China for central Alberta students
The coronavirus -- declared as a global health emergency by the World Health Organization on Thursday -- may force Wolf Creek Public Schools to cancel an upcoming exchange trip to China.The trip sched...
Jan 30, 2020 Wolf Creek Public Schools Superintendent Jayson Lovell (at table, right), signs an agreement in spring 2018 that would allow students to participate in exchanges with the local school division in Guangzhou, China. (Supplied/Wolf Creek Public Schools)