One of the co-chairs of Alberta’s new emergency medical services advisory committee is the son of the late founder of a private Calgary-based ambulance firm.
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Last year, 140 Alberta physicians cancelled their registrations because they were moving to other provinces.
Maybe our perceptions aren’t quite accurate regarding how we view Albertans who are still unvaccinated.
This was driven by the third quarter, which saw EMS responding to more opioid-related events than in any other third quarter since 2018. Actually, than any other quarter since 2018.
Alberta Health Services cut services—including surgery, emergency, ambulatory, and obstetrics—in the hospitals of 7 communities in rural Alberta over the Christmas holidays.
The associate minister of addictions seems to think that the pandemic is to blame for Alberta’s record numbers of drug-related deaths.
The company the two of them used to manage specializes in making “significant operational and structural changes”.
Deaths in private residences, however, are declining.
Alberta’s EMS data for 2021 is nearly 50% higher than last year’s, and the year isn’t even over yet.
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UCP donor appointed as chair of AHS board
Over the last 15 years, Greg Turnbull and his spouse have donated over $50,000 to the UCP or its predecessor.