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Alberta Health Services (AHS) is the single health authority for the Canadian province of Alberta and the "largest integrated provincial health care system" in Canada. Headquartered in Edmonton , AHS delivers medical care on behalf of the Government of Alberta's Ministry of Health . [ 3 ]
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 AHS, which is the "first province-wide, fully integrated health system", delivers medical care on behalf of the Government of Alberta's Ministry of Health. [5] According to the December 31, 2019 Ernst & Young AHS performance review, the AHS serves 4.3 Million Albertans and has a staff of 125,000 staff and 10,000 physicians. [6]: 3
In August 2009, Alberta Health Services announced that it will be closing 106 of the 410 beds at the hospital. [2] The AUPE has been strongly opposed to the closures and have staged many protests and have made several television commercials at an attempt to gain support. [3] Edmonton Zone Day Hospital opened in Building 12 on January 7 2019.
Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH) is a children's hospital located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and operated by the Calgary Health Region of Alberta Health Services. It originally opened on May 19, 1922 as the Junior Red Cross Children's Hospital . [ 2 ]
The hospital serves as a training centre for multiple professions. The University of Alberta trains residents in their Rural Alberta North family medicine program and rotate medical students on elective. [5]
It is administered by Alberta Health Services. The building was developed by Alberta Infrastructure, and the first phase was built at a cost of $1.31 billion. The South Health Campus was fully operational by 2016. It has the capacity to handle 800,000 ambulatory visits per year, and it performs approximately 2,500 births every year.
Formerly operated by the Calgary Health Region, it is now under the authority of Alberta Health Services and part of the University of Calgary Medical Centre. The main building of the hospital was opened in June 1966. It was originally named Foothills Provincial General Hospital and later known simply as Foothills Hospital. With the addition of ...