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Slave Lake Residents in Edmonton to Push for Essential Health Care Services

Concerned Citizens of Slave Lake and Friends of Medicare are at the Legislative Assembly today to table a petition which asks AHS to reinstate their four physicians who resigned in December, 2013, citing patient advocacy issues. The resignations served as a catalyst for the community to take a stand on the lack of health care services which faces the Town of Slave Lake and the surrounding areas. Slave Lake had 13 doctors practicing medicine before the 2011 wildfires devastated the town. In the aftermath, five doctors relocated elsewhere. AHS opened the Family Care Clinic (FCC), staffed with seven doctors, four of whom were the doctors who recently resigned.

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March 04, 2014

  • Slave Lake Residents in Edmonton to Push for Essential Health Care Services

    Concerned Citizens of Slave Lake and Friends of Medicare are at the Legislative Assembly today to table a petition which asks AHS to reinstate their four physicians who resigned in December, 2013, citing patient advocacy issues. The resignations served as a catalyst for the community to take a stand on the lack of health care services which faces the Town of Slave Lake and the surrounding areas. Slave Lake had 13 doctors practicing medicine before the 2011 wildfires devastated the town. In the aftermath, five doctors relocated elsewhere. AHS opened the Family Care Clinic (FCC), staffed with seven doctors, four of whom were the doctors who recently resigned.

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    March 04, 2014

  • Throne Speech Signals Less Health Care for Albertans

    Sandra Azocar, Executive Director of Friends of Medicare, made the following statement today following the Alberta government's Throne Speech:

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    March 03, 2014

  • Bullying of Visitors in Care Facilities Must Stop

    Yesterday Albertans wore pink to stand up against bullying, but today's story released by Public Interest Alberta about visitors being banned from seeing loved ones in care facilities revealed some serious examples of how much work there is left to do

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    February 28, 2014

  • No one is minding the store when it comes to private medical facilities in Alberta

    The documents released yesterday by the Alberta Federation of Labour further highlight the Alberta government's failure to protect and expand our public health care system.

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    February 21, 2014

  • Seniors Challenge Minister Horne to Stick to the Facts, Horne's Response To Seniors Raises More Questions

    Edmonton - Minister Fred Horne's response issued today to the seniors and advocacy groups who comprise the Seniors' task force of Public Interest Alberta is a series of vague and disingenuous claims.

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    January 17, 2014

  • Friends of Medicare Supports Seniors Occupying Health Minister's Office to Challenge Cut to Seniors Drug Plan

    Friends of Medicare joined seniors to occupy Health Minister Fred Horne's office today to protest cuts to Alberta's seniors drug plan. The action was led by Public Interest Alberta's Seniors' Task Force, of which Friends of Medicare is a member.

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    January 16, 2014

  • New Health Advocate Must Address Systemic Issues

    Friends of Medicare would like to extend a welcome to Mary A. Marshall who was appointed to a 6 month term as the Interim Health Advocate.

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    December 19, 2013

  • Government Move to Privatize Lab Services Ignores Evidence

    December 11, 2013
    EDMONTON

    Alberta Health Services released a Request for Proposals (RFP) today for laboratory services in the Edmonton Zone. The RFP follows an AHS announcement made in September that it would be consolidating nearly all of Edmonton's lab services into a single facility which will be run by a single for-profit corporation.

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    December 11, 2013

  • Advocates Challenge Minister for Statements on Seniors Care

    Public Interest Alberta and Friends of Medicare have released a video of former Associate Minister of Seniors George VanderBurg responding to concerns raised about seniors care at a forum in Whitecourt on November 13th, 2013.

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    December 10, 2013

  • AHS Plan to Cut Nursing Positions Decreases Alberta''s Health Care Capacity

    Friends of Medicare is appalled by a document released by Alberta's NDP today showing that Alberta Health Services (AHS) plans to cut 200 full-time nursing positions in Alberta.

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    November 15, 2013