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Alberta Government Claims Reduced Hospital Wait Times, Faster EMS Response With 90 Day Health Care Update

February 27, 2023
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On the eve of the release of the 2023 Alberta budget, and roughly three months from the next election, Premier Danielle Smith released on Monday 90-day statistics indicating health care wait times in the province are dropping. Alberta first launched a new Health Care Action Plan (HCAP) on Nov. 17, 2022, and vowed to dramatically…

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Emergency Room Wait Times Up Across Canada: Federal Data

December 14, 2022
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Close to 14 million Canadians visited an emergency room between April 2021 and March 2022 and those patients faced increased wait times at hospitals across the country, according to data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). The data released by CIHI on Dec. 8 shows that 90 percent of emergency department visits for…

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