Nov. 8, 2023
Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta’s provincewide health provider has lost its way, grown too big and become unaccountable, and that a massive reorganization can no longer wait.
Smith announced Wednesday sweeping changes to dismantle Alberta Health Services, reducing it to one of four new service delivery organizations, all reporting directly to Health Minister Adriana LaGrange.
“This isn’t change for the sake of change,” Smith said Wednesday at a news conference near the legislature.
“The current Alberta health-care system is one that has forgotten who should be at the centre of its existence — patients and the health-care experts who look after them.”
She said some improvements have been made on finding family doctors and reducing wait times for care and surgeries, but added it’s not enough and her government needs the legislative tools to make changes.