Alberta's Opposition leader says Premier Danielle Smith needs to explain her plan to potentially transfer control of underperforming hospitals to third parties.
WATCH ABOVE: The Alberta government is looking at broader changes to the province's health system. Premier Danielle Smith says the province may tell Alberta Health Services that other groups like Covenant Health will take over operating certain hospitals. Jasmine King explains.Alberta’s Opposition leader says Premier Danielle Smith needs to explain her plan to potentially transfer control of underperforming hospitals to third parties.
“This is no way to run a system with over 100,000 employees, to do it at your whim, to have no real plan and to just spout off the next thing that comes into your head that you think will please the audience you’re in front of,” Nenshi said.The policy change would be part of a broader plan announced last year by Smith to dismantle Alberta Health Services, or AHS, the agency tasked with delivering front-line care.
Smith told the audience her government plans to hand over the operation of underperforming hospitals to third parties. “The next phase is to see how many of those hospitals that AHS currently operates that we can retake ownership over. We can’t do it for all of them,” said Smith. Smith’s office declined to provide a comment Tuesday to The Canadian Press and directed questions to Health Minister Adriana LaGrange’s office.
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