The client-directed model makes health care more efficient and helps people live independently
is expanding a new health care program that requires eligible residents to vet and hire private companies to provide them with home care at the expense of the government, rather than receiving services directly from the provincial health authority or its contractors.
Critics argue the the lack of standards puts patients at risk, while directing public money to private companies with little oversight. By way of comparison, healthcare aides who are members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees make between $22.30 and $26.55 per hour, plus benefits, overtime and weekend shift premiums.Ms. Smith said Alberta should “differentiate” between two types of care delivered in people’s homes.
Alberta’s client-directed program served 2,025 patients in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, according to AHS. Total payments to Alberta Blue Cross for the program hit $29-million that year, it said; in the prior 11 months, payments totalled $8.9-million.
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