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On April 1, 2009, the Health Governance Transition Amendment Act dissolved the Alberta Mental Health Board, the Alberta Cancer Board and the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission, [9]: 12–3 [10]: 44–49 and completed the transition to Alberta Health Services (AHS). [11] Alberta Health Services funding of gender-affirming care for ...
A December 31, 2019 performance review of Alberta Health Services by Ernst & Young—commissioned by the UCP government—made numerous recommendations to cut costs and increase efficiencies, and set an "aggressive" timeline of three years for implementation of a "massive overhaul" of Alberta's health-care system.
The Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan is the system of tax-funded health insurance for residents of the province of Alberta.. Most residents of Alberta who are either Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada, or have refugee status in Canada and who live in Alberta for 183 or more days per year or more and who are not already covered by the health insurance plan of another province ...
Health: Alberta College of Pharmacy Regulatory/Adjudicative Directs and regulates the practice of pharmacists in Alberta. Health: Alberta College of Social Workers Regulatory/Adjudicative Directs and regulates the practice of social workers in Alberta. Health: Alberta College of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists Regulatory/Adjudicative
Health care: employees of health care providers, including Alberta Health Services, as well as other public, private and not-for-profit facilities, over 55,000 members. Education: non-academic employees of universities , community colleges , technical institutes and school boards , more than 11,000 members.
The primary objective of the Canadian healthcare policy, as set out in the 1984 Canada Health Act (CHA), is to "protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers."
Alberta provides a publicly funded, fully integrated health system, through Alberta Health Services (AHS)—a quasi-independent agency that delivers health care on behalf of the Government of Alberta's Ministry of Health. [149] The Alberta government provides health services for all its residents as set out by the provisions of the Canada ...
Calgary currently has four major adult acute care hospitals; the Foothills Medical Centre, the Peter Lougheed Centre, the Rockyview General Hospital and the South Health Campus and a children's acute care hospital; Alberta Children's Hospital, all running under the auspices of Alberta Health Services, the single provincial health authority for the province, that delivers medical care on behalf ...