Monday afternoon, Premier Danielle Smith said Alberta Health Services is not in crisis. That is a complete about-face from what she said only three months ago when she fired the AHS board and appointed Dr. John Cowell as sole administrator.
That is a complete about-face from what she said only three months ago when she fired the AHS board and appointed Dr. John Cowell as sole administrator.
Smith made the comments at a press conference releasing Cowell's first interim report on the health-care action plan begun in November. 127 full-time allied health staff, such as social workers, physiotherapists and occupational therapists. That is a drop of five per cent from when Cowell began his work in November, but he admits it is still far too many Albertans waiting for too long.
One of the key ways Cowell expects to achieve that goal is through the increased use of publicly funded surgeries performed in private surgical facilities.In January, AHS signed a contract with Canadian Surgery Solutions to offer 3,000 additional orthopaedic procedures in Calgary.Additionally, Cowell says, 30,000 ophthalmology procedures will be performed at a new private surgical facility once its construction is complete.
"I would caution anybody to believe that this is going to fix the waiting-list problem in Alberta, because it simply will not. It will address the backlog problem period," Noseworthy said.
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