Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, shown here at a conservative political event in Ottawa in April, has hyped to her provincial members expanding the province's bill of rights.
Alberta's premier says the province is planning to lease new hospitals to Alberta Health Services with the option of transferring operations to another operator if it decides AHS isn't doing a good job.Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, shown here at a conservative political event in Ottawa in April, says the province plans to retain ownership of new hospitals and have AHS operate them.
Smith's government is currently breaking the provincial health authority into four separate organizations dealing with acute care, primary care, continuing care, and mental health and addictionsSmith told the crowd that her government is changing how hospitals are run. Instead of building hospitals and handing them over to AHS, the province is going to keep ownership of the building.
At first, the plan would only apply to newly built hospitals, but Smith suggested the province will consider taking back ownership of some existing hospitals as a next step. The statement says "the work to refocus Alberta's health-care system includes transitioning Alberta Health Services, over time, to focus on delivering only acute care services."
Metz is concerned this is another step toward American-style health care. She is also concerned over the government's decision to consider aAndrew Longhurst, a health policy researcher at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, said allowing outside operators to run Alberta hospitals will not improve the health system.
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