An ambulance sits at the emergency entrance of Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary on January 18, 2022.
Questions are being raised about the Alberta government's plan to convert five health regions into seven new "health corridors," as it rearranges health-care planning.Questions are being raised about the Alberta government's plan to convert five health regions into seven new "health corridors," as it rearranges health-care planning.
The corridors will broken down as follows: northwest, northeast, Edmonton, central, Calgary, southwest and southeast. "They don't look the same way as they do right now. All the corridors will be different than the five zones," LaGrange said."If they're talking about seven health zones, that's going to mean seven CEOs, seven physician leads. It's going to mean additional quality councils. It's going to mean more administration," said Manns, a professor of medicine and health economics at the University of Calgary.
Alberta Medical Association president Dr. Shelley Duggan said an argument can be made for change because patients from some communities end up going to hospitals in other health zones for care, simply because they're closer.
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