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Why can’t doctors work OT in the public system. If people can’t see through her horseshit I don’t know what to say anymore. It’s just complete fucking nonsense. Who’s getting rich???? It sure ain’t the fucking doctors!! #abpoli #abhealthcare
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REMEMBER TO ATTEND AND SUPPORT THIS RALLY, TOMORROW MARCH 16/26
#Ableg #Abpoli #ABhealthcare #Cdnpoli #CHA #SayNoToTwoTier
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IMPORTANT RALLY TO ATTEND AND SUPPORT, TOMORROW AT NOON
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#FireTheUCP #ableg #DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead #WorstABGovernmentEver #RecallThemAll #CorruptCare #ABResistance #ABHealthcare
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ACA releases Quality Assurance Review recommendations March 12, 2026 EDMONTON - Acute Care Alberta (ACA) has released recommendations from a Quality Assurance Review (QAR) stemming from an adverse event in the Grey Nuns Community Hospital Emergency Department on December 22, A total of 16 recommendations have been posted to the ACA website, outlining systemic improvements that can be made both at the site and across the acute care system to help promote better outcomes and prevent similar events from occurring. "The QAR process is designed to assess adverse events at a systemic level and identify actions that can be taken to improve the overall quality of care that patients receive and prevent similar outcomes in the future" said ACA Interim CEO David Diamond "I would like to thank everyone who participated in this QAR for their time and dedication to quality improvement. Our thoughts remain with this patient's loved ones as they navigate this tremendous loss." The QAR's recommendations range from practical solutions that can be implemented at the site level in the short term to longer term strategies that focus on system-wide improvements. The purpose of the QAR is not to assign blame but to identify ways to make the system better for patients across the province. ACA is committed to fostering a culture of transparency and accountability in Alberta's acute care system, which is why we are posting this QAR's recommendations publicly and will post recommendations from future QARs whenever possible. Acute Care Alberta is the provincial health agency dedicated to the governance and coordination of high-quality, timely and efficient acute care services across the province. Working in close partnership with acute care service providers and provincial health corporations, we drive improved emergency and acute care services for all Albertans. For more information, visit: acutacarealberta.ca
Actionable Strategies for Advancing Patient Safety Date document created: January 14, 2026 Title: Delay In Accessing Emergency Care Treatment Space What happened? A patient came to an emergency department with chest pain. They received care though a nurse-initiated protocol. After waiting approximately eight hours, the patient was moved to a treatment space to be assessed by a physician. Shortly after, the patient had a critical cardiovascular event. What are the health system vulnerabilities? Prolonged wait times in the Emergency Department • Increasing healthcare system overcrowding • Clinical decision support What are the recommendations? 1. Conduct a Human Factors Assessment at the site to evaluate care spaces and waiting areas to identify design and usability improvements that enhance the safety of patients and staff, efficiency, and patient experience. Perform a Process Improvement Analysis of patient flow to assess current workflows and identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies impacting care and implement actionable recommendations from both assessments. 2. Local site administration to increase staffing in the Emergency Department (ED), specifically: • 24 / 7 coverage of electrocardiogram (ECG) technician Conversion of existing temporary nursing positions to permanent positions in order to stabilize staffing and provide support to waiting room, hallway, and triage areas Dependency: Secure capital and permanent operational funding. 3. Site administration to continue with implementation of previous plans to expand the site ED, which will result in transition of temporary hallway spaces to dedicated, purpose built clinical environments, and the movement of eight Addictions and Mental Health (AMH) care spaces for medically stable AMH patients. Dependency: Secure capital and permanent operational funding. 4. Site administrators to increase General Internal Medicine and Medicine capacity on the site, and establish an Inpatient High Intensity Unit (HIU) that will be e…
• Patients requiring non-invasive ventilation and/or close respiratory monitoring • Patients experiencing significant substance withdrawal • Cardiac patients not requiring Intensive Care or Cardiac Care Units Dependency: Secure capital and permanent operational funding. 5. Implement a physician at triage/overcapacity physician model at appropriate EDs to better support triage nurses, improve flow in the ED, reduce time for patients to see a physician, and reduce left-without-being-seen rates. Prioritize implementation at sites experiencing significant prolonged physician intake assessment delays particularly for higher acuity patients. Evaluate and monitor the effectiveness of this model. 6. Develop a standardized process to indicate that if there is no physician at triage available, a physician lead is designated who is responsible for supporting triage/charge nurses regarding clinical concerns or relevant tests/ECGs. 7. An accountability framework to be codeveloped with relevant stakeholders and implemented to support patients and programs by aligning processes, resources, and surge strategies with patient needs. The framework should include clear performance measures for each accountability zone and mechanisms to support and incentivize outcomes across all areas of service delivery. For the ED, performance measures should include (but are not limited to) time from arrival to care space, time to ED physician assessment and time to consult/discharge. Inpatient measures include (but are not limited to) Emergency In Patients (EIP) proportions, Average Length of Stay (ALOS)/Expected Length of Stay (ELOS) and time from consult to admission, percentage of discharge before 11am. The accountability framework needs to ensure the right agencies and organizations are accountable for the performance and the measures they have control over. 8. Halt processes that enable admitting services to create caps that lead to patients appropriate for admission remaining under the care o…
10. Implement standardized pathways to coordinate patient movement, including repatriation of out-of-zone patients, in order to improve system flow and reduce pressure on ED and the system. 11. Work with hospital operators, provincial health corporations and the other provincial health agencies to reduce medicine inpatient occupancy at a site level to less than 100%. Available inpatient bed capacity must be aligned with patient care requirements. 12. Work with key partner organizations to continue the work that is currently happening to reduce the number of ALC patients in hospital and assess whether current initiatives are sufficient to achieve the intended release of acute care capacity. 13. Work with Hospital & Surgical Health Services to complete modelling and a long-term capital and service plan for the health system. The plan should have a goal of achieving acute care occupancy of 85-90%, as identified in the literature as the target to achieve optimal system flow. Prioritize the Edmonton corridor for modelling and planning activities. 14. Review and propose revisions to the updated chest pain (cardiac features) nurse-initiated protocol (NIP) to ensure that clinical decision support reflects: 1) that the protocol is a tool to risk stratify patients who may have ischemic chest pain, and that negative testing does not exclude other sinister causes of chest pain (such as pulmonary embolism, aortic dissection, ruptured esophagus, or pneumothorax) and 2) when to consider addition of bilateral blood pressure monitoring. 15. Explore digital health/artificial intelligence solutions that could enhance/facilitate clinical decision support for staff to assist with identifying patients who may require more urgent assessment by a physician. 16. Review radiology access in ED's to determine if an increase in support and access is needed.
This report is essentially useless.
Many of the recommendations are dependent on more funding. Who’s going to provide that?
Setting up ED triage docs? Still waiting.
Will Dani & the UCP lose this in the morass of a healthcare system we have or actually do something?
#ABpoli
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A National Day of Action for Public Health Care is scheduled for March 16, 2026, across Canada, to protest privatization and defend the Canada Health Act.
Rally will be held outside Edmonton Centre MP Eleanor Olswewski's office at 12220 Stony Plain Road, at NOON.
#Ableg #Abpoli #ABhealthcare #CHA
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#FireTheUCP #ableg #DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead #WorstABGovernmentEver #RecallThemAll #CorruptCare #Alberta #ABHealthcare #abed #WaterNotCoal
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Every Albertan needs to send a letter to the federal Health minister and the PM. Click on the link below.
#Ableg #Abpoli #Cdnpoli #Abhealthcare #AHS #CHA
actionnetwork.org/letters/canadas-government-must-enforce-the-canada-health-act?source=twitter&
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We just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Canada’s government MUST enforce the Canada Health Act!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/cana...
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Have you signed up for this event, in Edmonton?
Please RSVP: An Urgent Conversation: Public Health Care in Edmonton friendsofmedicare.org/public_healt...
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Please RSVP: An Urgent Conversation: Public Health Care in Edmonton friendsofmedicare.org/public_healt...
#Ableg #Abpoli #AHS #ABhealthcare
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#ABhealthcare One key difference highlighted in the report is the use of private health insurance as a complementary or alternative option to the public insurance scheme.
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#FireTheUCP #ableg #DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead #WorstABGovernmentEver #RecallThemAll #CorruptCare #ABResistance #ABHealthcare #abed
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#abpoli #abhealthcare Alberta’s ‘two‑tier health‑care law’ should concern employers: report. Move could have implications for future benefit design, regional disparities in access to care and long‑term workforce health costs. www.hcamag.com/ca/specializ...
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When you install a guy
Matt Jones with B of Commerce, an Investment Banker before elected to #Ableg Calgary-SE in 2023, as Min of Hospital & Surgical Health Services on May 16/25 you’re in trouble.
Matt states Healthcare has not collapsed, says it’s untrue.
What does he know!
#Abpoli #ABHealthcare
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Professional Healthcare Training courses in person and online at anniebarr.com - visit our website to see next dates for all courses. #healthcarecourses #preventativehealthcare #abhealthcare #anniebarrmbe #b12society
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A new dashboard has been posted by the provincial government aimed at giving Albertans clearer and more timely information about how the province’s health care system is performing. #alberta #abhealthcare #albertahealthcare #ab #healthcare
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Officials say Alberta’s large hospitals were operating at just over 100 per cent capacity Thursday morning, highlighting the pressure on the health system even as some indicators offer hope. #abhealthcare #albertahealth #fluseason #Alberta
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Emergency departments across Alberta are feeling the pressure of what provincial health officials are calling “a particularly challenging respiratory virus season”. #abhealthcare #abhealth #Alberta
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#ABHealthCare crumbling or already crumbs?
Poor (or intentional) capacity planning?
Poor (or intentional) workforce management?
Is it now unsafe?
Don't know what you got
(till it's gone)
...and it might be already...
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@anniegirl.bsky.social @merlinofcanada.bsky.social @luciecatnip.bsky.social @cmcalgary.bsky.social @calgaryoccupy.bsky.social It appears that #DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead may have alienated t the #EdmontonJournal #abpoli #ABHealthcare #AHS
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“Only the Premier and the govt can act to afford meaningful change.” 💯 🎯 #ABleg #ABpoli #ABhealthcare
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“Only the Premier and the govt can act to afford meaningful change.” 💯 🎯 #ABleg #ABpoli #ABhealthcare
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SIGN AND LET'S STOP DANIELLE SMITH'S PLAN
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Wistikles | Alberta’s Bill 11 lets some surgeons work in both public and private systems. Supporters say it cuts wait times, critics warn it could create a two-tier system.
#wistikles #trendingtoday #canada #india #Alberta #Bill11 #HealthCare #AlbertaHealth #Bill11 #ABHealthCare #PrivateHealthcare
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I guess this is what #Alberta wants #abpoli #ableg #abhealthcare #abhealthservices
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