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The Alberta Health Services Board was re-introduced, effective November 27, 2015 with Linda Hughes appointed as the board chair. [25] On April 4, 2022, the AHS Board asked Mauro Chies, Vice President, Cancer Care Alberta and Clinical Support Services, to serve in the role of interim CEO on a temporary basis.
HCA Healthcare, Inc. is an American for-profit operator of health care facilities that was founded in 1968. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and, as of May 2020, owned and operated 186 hospitals and approximately 2,400 sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding emergency rooms, urgent care centers and physician clinics in 20 states and the United Kingdom. [6]
A licensed practical nurse (LPN), in much of the United States and Canada, is a nurse who provides direct nursing care for people who are sick, injured, convalescent, or disabled. In the United States, LPNs work under the direction of physicians , mid-level practitioners , and may work under the direction of registered nurses depending on their ...
The Medical Profession Act was passed after Alberta became a province in 1905. In 1906, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) was formed in Calgary, covering physician licensing and discipline, followed shortly after by the forming of the Canadian Medical Association, Alberta Division (renamed the Alberta Medical Association in the 1960s), an educational body also concerned ...
The Edmonton, Alberta-headquartered Alberta Health Services (AHS), was established in 2008 as the "first province-wide, fully integrated health system" in Canada. The AHS delivers medical care on behalf of the Government of Alberta's Ministry of Health. [5] The AHS serves 4.3 million Albertans and has a staff of 125,000 staff and 10,000 physicians.
Richardson, Sharon (1998). "Frontier Health Care: Alberta's District and Municipal Nursing Services, 1919 to 1976". Alberta History. 46 (1): 2– 9. Tipliski, Veryl Margaret (2004). "Parting at the crossroads: the emergence of education for psychiatric nursing in three Canadian provinces, 1909-1955". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. 21 (1 ...
Chinook Regional Hospital is the district general hospital for the City of Lethbridge and Southern Alberta, and offers many of the health care services for Alberta Health Services. The hospital services a population of over 150,000 and is supported by the Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation. [1]
Seniors, Community, and Social Services: Alberta Funeral Services Regulatory Board Regulatory/Adjudicative Regulates funeral businesses, directors, embalmers, and salespeople; setting and enforcing standards of conduct, licensing, education criteria; and monitoring, investigating, and enforcing funeral trust accounts and complaints.