Alberta Health Services

The province says it is spending an extra $11 million this year to reduce wait times for scans, on top of a $33-million increase from last year.

'Her fever was really high. Her heart rate was over 140. She was in agony,' the girl's mother recounted the nightmare that started in an Edmonton walk-in and took them through the clogged emergency departments of two hospitals.

I am excited to see how the profession evolves, I truly believe pharmacists need to continue expanding their roles in different areas because we have the knowledge, the training, the skills and the ability to improve healthcare.

The $750 million is to be used for recruitment and retention programs, rural and remote programming and expanding capacity across the system.

Fresh food prescription program shows uptick in consumption of healthy foods in people with food insecurity.

Dr. Max Klein has also been ordered by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta to pay about $30,000, the full cost of investigation and hearings.

An emergency directive calling for some patients in Edmonton hospitals to be treated in hallways was lifted Thursday after Alberta Health Services was able to place some patients in other facilities.

The order had been enacted earlier in the week to reduce pressure on emergency departments while Alberta Health Services worked to place some patients in other hospitals or care facilities.