Our government is making meaningful progress in delivering a stronger, more integrated health care system that ensures better care for every Albertan, regardless of where they live. As your MLA, I am proud to support our government’s work to refocus our health care system and ensure that key services are properly supported through specialized, effective oversight.
The creation and roll out of the new provincial health agencies, Primary Care Alberta, Acute Care Alberta, and Recovery Alberta, represent a significant step toward modernizing and strengthening our province’s health care delivery.
These agencies are now operational and already beginning to improve how services are delivered across Alberta. We can also look forward to the launch of Assisted Living Alberta later this year, which will further enhance support for seniors and others in need of long-term care solutions.
As part of this transformation, Alberta Health Services (AHS) is transitioning to focus primarily on hospital-based care under the leadership of Acute Care Alberta.
This shift allows for greater specialization and improved delivery of services that are vital to the health and well-being of our communities. This includes transferring responsibility for emergency health services from AHS to Acute Care Alberta, ensuring that Albertans receive prompt, efficient, and well-coordinated emergency care.
Importantly, our government is also taking bold steps to improve cancer care and organ and tissue donation services. Later this year, oversight and policy for both of these critical areas will move from AHS to Acute Care Alberta. This move reflects a commitment to providing the best possible care in areas that are essential to a high-functioning health care system.
Cancer Care Alberta, under Acute Care Alberta’s oversight, will be empowered to focus exclusively on providing timely, cutting-edge treatments and services for those battling cancer. It will also have greater responsibility for managing its workforce,along with capital and operational funding.
This focus will help ensure that patients receive the care they need when they need it, with greater responsiveness and accountability, including a dedicated process to address concerns and complaints.
The same level of focus is being applied to organ and tissue donation and transplantation. Hundreds of Albertans benefit from these life-saving procedures every year, and with oversight transferred to Acute Care Alberta, we will see streamlined processes, more targeted program development and a clear vision to improve outcomes for patients and their families.
It’s a powerful reminder of the impact a single donor can have on saving or improving up to 75 lives.
These changes, supported by proposed legislation and additional regulations to be introduced this spring, represent a thoughtful and strategic shift in how health care is managed in Alberta. By enabling specialized agencies with clearer mandates, our government is ensuring the long-term sustainability and excellence of our health system.
Our province is moving forward with purpose and clarity. Albertans can be confident that the care they receive, whether in a hospital, community clinic, or through life-saving transplant services, is backed by a system built to deliver results as we put patients first in Alberta.
- MLA Jackie Lovely can be contacted at her constituency office located at #104, 4870 51 Street, Camrose AB, T4V 1S1, or by telephone at 780-672-0000.
