Zwozdesky, Hon. Gene (PC, Edmonton-Mill Creek; Minister of Health and Wellness)
Airdrie-Chestermere (Constituency)
Alberta Cancer Board
Replacement by single provincial Health Services Board ... 604
Alberta Children's hospital
Patient safety issues at, release of report on ... 393, 399, 419, 423, 424, 544 Patient safety issues at, report on ... 572 Patient safety issues at, report on (SP125/10: Tabled) ... 553 Physician's behaviour in ... 572
Alberta College and Association of Chiropractors
Annual report to government 2009-10, with financial statements dated June 30, 2010 (SP396/10: Tabled) ... 1408
Alberta College of Combined Laboratory and X-Ray Technologists
Annual report 2009 (SP392/10: Tabled) ... 1408
Alberta College of Medical Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologists
Annual report 2009 (Tabled as intersessional deposit SP226/10) ... 5 July/10 (reported in Votes and Proceedings 25 Oct./10)
Alberta College of Medical Laboratory Technologists
Annual report 2009 (SP385/10: Tabled) ... 1318
Alberta College of Occupational Therapists
Annual report 2009-10 (SP426/10: Tabled) ... 1649
Alberta College of Optometrists
Annual report 2009 (SP386/10: Tabled) ... 1318
Alberta College of Pharmacists
Input into health planning ... 1745
Alberta College of Social Workers
Annual report 2009 (Tabled as intersessional deposit SP227/10) ... 5 July/10 (reported in Votes and Proceedings 25 Oct./10)
Alberta College of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists
Annual report 2009 (SP391/10: Tabled) ... 1408
Alberta Dental Association and College
Annual report 2009 (Tabled as intersessional deposit SP222/10) ... 7 June/10 (reported in Votes and Proceedings 25 Oct./10) Dental infection prevention standards ... 695
Alberta health act (Proposed)
Alberta Health Act (Bill 17)
Alberta health care insurance plan
Avastin (drug) coverage ... 692-93 Health card fraud prevention ... 510 Podiatry surgery coverage ... 182
Alberta Health Professions Act
Alberta Health Services (Authority)
Activity-based funding model ... 147, 447 Administration of, performance measures re ... 1025 Administrative savings from creation of ... 99-100, 153, 188, 667, 670, 893, 1007, 1475 Ambulance service administration ... 96, 511-12, 514, 515 Appointment of Dr. Chris Eagle as acting president and CEO ... 1705, 1713 Calgary Children's hospital patient safety investigation, release of ... 393, 399, 419, 572 Capital project planning (review) ... 273 Centralization of services under ... 893, 911, 941-42, 1096, 1475-76, 1693, 1745 CEO of, dismissal ... 1640 CEO of, performance review of ... 1342 CEO of, recruitment and hiring procedure ... 1642 CEO of, remarks to news reporters ... 1342 Code of conduct (speaking publicly policy) ... 419, 423, 483-84, 566-67 Communications plan ... 1639 Data collection and reporting ... 1641 Decision-making authority ... 44, 244, 419, 423, 669-70, 815, 893, 1057, 1091, 1340 Deficit, elimination of ... 57, 667 Deficits inherited from former regional boards, retirement of ... 153, 155-56, 188, 1024 Environmental health program ... 1260 Executive VP of quality and service improvement statements on medical care system ... 1745 Financial operations, Auditor General's report on ... 971-72, 975 Food services review ... 1403 Funding for ... 57, 1806 Health facilities security improvements ... 547, 666, 673 Hip and knee surgery steering committee ... 274 Hospital discharge policy ... 812 Infection prevention control and standards ... 695 Local food purchase and preparation, strategy re ... 1403 Nurses, hiring of ... 1694 Role of, per Alberta Health Act ... 1073 Senior executive bonuses/contracts ... 690, 720, 722-23, 756-57, 848-49, 896 Senior executive bonuses/contracts, AHSB review of ... 753, 756, 785-86 Senior executive bonuses/contracts, standardization of ... 757, 848 Senior executive contracts, review of ... 753, 756, 785-86 Senior executive contracts, standardization of ... 757, 848 Senior executive pensions ... 756, 786 Senior executive severance payments ... 99, 849 Site visit to Extendicare Michener Hill ... 1314 Southern Alberta zone steering committee ... 1059 Staff suggestions invitation (Action Your Ideas) ... 815 Tom Baker cancer centre physicians, prohibition from speaking publicly by ... 419, 423, 483-84 Villa Caritas lease agreement, Auditor General comment re ... 977 Workforce engagement survey ... 690
Alberta Health Services Board
Board member's comments re AHSB governance ... 1692 Board member's resignation ... 1692 Chair's comments re medical care system governance ... 1692 Effectiveness of ... 1007 Governance role ... 1692 Governance role, relation to Dept. of Health and Wellness ... 1692-93 Reporting procedure for ... 1640 Resignations from ... 1692 Role of ... 1640 Strategic priorities, implementation of ... 1642
Alberta hospital, Edmonton
Overcrowding in, initiatives re ... 941 Transfer of patients to Villa Caritas facility ... 972 Transfer of staff to Villa Caritas facility ... 978
Alberta Medical Association
Events regarding Dr. Sherman and Mr. Horne ... 1749
Alberta Opticians Association
Annual report 2009 (SP374/10: Tabled) ... 1264
Alberta's Health Legislation: Moving Forward
Ambulance service
Provincial governance of, dispatch service re ... 511-12, 514, 515 Response times for ... 1121-22
Ambulance service - Airdrie
Ambulance service, Aerial
Impact of provincial governance of ambulance system on ... 512
Auditor General
Alberta Health Services financial operations, report on ... 971-72, 975, 1007 Cataract surgery contracts, evaluation of ... 809 Former regional health authorities accumulated deficits comments ... 155-56 Villa Caritas lease agreement, comment re ... 977 Villa Caritas upgrading contract, comment re ... 972
Bake sales by nonprofit organizations
Exemption from food sale regulations ... 422-23
Bonnyville primary care network
Funding for ... 1262-63 Funding for nurse practitioner in ... 510
Budget 2010
Second-quarter fiscal update ... 1342
Calgary health region (Former authority)
Severance package/pension for former CEO ... 1314-15
Canada Health Act
General remarks ... 1072, 1802 Public funding provisions in ... 1691, 1697 Relation to proposed Alberta health act ... 41, 1011
Canada health transfer (Federal government)
Reporting of health care timely access indicators re ... 1061, 1063
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Health wait times monitoring ... 1124
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Zamboni treatment for MS, recommendations re ... 1259
Cancer - Treatment
Impact of health system reform on ... 604 Provincial strategy for ... 1090, 1122, 1698 Radiation, wait times for ... 567 Wait times for ... 567, 604, 1063, 1124 Wait times for, federal funding re ... 1124 Wait times for, performance measures re ... 1696-97
Cancer - Treatment - Calgary
Cancer pathologists
Retention of team re ... 604
Cancer radiation treatment corridor (Lethbridge, Red Deer, Grande Prairie)
CAT scans
Waiting lists for, reduction of, funding for ... 115
Cataract surgery
Accreditation of facilities for ... 690 Contracting to private clinics, AHS plan re ... 114, 146, 147, 758, 759, 786-87, 789, 809, 812, 845, 893 Contracting to private clinics, evaluation of by Auditor General ... 809 Contracting to private clinics, request for emergency debate re (not proceeded with) ... 817-18 Contracting to private clinics, standards compliance re ... 789 Cost-benefit analysis of ... 155 General remarks ... 114, 689, 690 Lenses implanted during, charging patients for ... 789 RFP, meeting re ... 787
Cataract surgery - Calgary
Cataract surgery - Wetaskiwin
Discontinuation of ... 789
Central Alberta Recovery Centre
Death of client at ... 910
Chantelle Management Ltd.
Long-term care centre project in Grande Prairie, funding for ... 420
Chief Medical Officer of Health
Fish consumption advisories issued by ... 42 Public health plan ... 327 Syphilis outbreak report ... 365
Children and poverty
Health impacts ... 1313 Provincial strategy re ... 1313
Cold Lake community health services
Physician shortage ... 793
College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta
Annual report 2008-09 (SP353/10) ... 1209 Meetings with province re Alberta nurses employment opportunities ... 211 Nurse practitioner discussions with province ... 510
College of Alberta Denturists
Annual report 2009 (SP384/10: Tabled) ... 1318
College of Alberta Psychologists
Annual report 2009-10 (SP395/10: Tabled) ... 1408
College of Dental Technologists of Alberta
Annual report 2009 (SP351/10: Tabled) ... 1209
College of Dietitians of Alberta
Annual report 2009-10 (SP394/10: Tabled) ... 1408
College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta
Annual report 2009 (SP373/10: Tabled) ... 1264
College of Physical Therapists of Alberta
Annual report 2009 (SP375/10: Tabled) ... 1264
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta
Accreditation process for internationally trained doctors ... 672 Input into health planning ... 1745 Physician discipline procedures ... 572 Physician psychiatric review procedures ... 1749
College of Registered Dental Hygienists of Alberta
Annual report 2009 (SP352/10: Tabled) ... 1209
Community health centres
Conversion to walk-in clinics ... 671
Continuing care strategy
Long-term care beds, targets for ... 1694-95 Priorities re ... 1316
Continuing care strategy - Calgary
Continuing/extended care facilities
Increase in beds ... 1806
Continuing/extended care facilities - Construction
Continuing/extended care facilities - Construction - Fort McMurray
Funding for ... 1082 General remarks ... 1130
Continuing/extended care facilities - Finance
Activity-based funding model re ... 447 By Alberta capital bonds ... 61, 756
Corps of Commissionaires, Lethbridge
Hospital security contract cancellation ... 547
Covenant Health
Operation of Villa Caritas facility ... 972, 977
Cytology lab services, Centralized
Creation of ... 147, 448, 478 Creation of, minister's meetings with medical staff re ... 147
Dentistry - Standards
Infection prevention and control standards ... 695
Dept. of Health and Wellness
2010 capital plan, publication of ... 1692 Annual report ... 1315 Annual report 2009-10 (Tabled as intersessional deposit SP247/10) ... 1 Oct./10 (reported in Votes and Proceedings 25 Oct./10) Deputy ministers, bonus frozen ... 723 Expenditures under budget ... 1342 External consultants expenditures (Q23/10: Response tabled as SP425/10) ... 1649 Minister's sign-off on Health Services senior executives contracts ... 720, 722-23 Minister's travel expenses paid by Telus ... 1123 Policy decision-making authority ... 44 Role of ... 1692 Role of, in oversight of special-needs children ... 910 Role of, per Alberta Health Act ... 1073 Supplementary estimates 2009-10, debated ... 155-56 Wellness forums ... 1313
Deputy ministers (Provincial government)
Achievement bonuses, suspension of ... 723
Diagnostic equipment, Medical
Waiting lists for MRI, reduction of, funding for ... 115
Drugs, Illegal
Houses used for, habitability of ... 1260
Drugs, Prescription
Provincial pharmacare program ... 724 Provincial pharmacare program, seniors' coverage ... 1808-09 Provincial pharmacare program, transition team ... 724 Review of ... 1404
East Calgary health centre
East Edmonton health centre
Additional health care staff for, funding for ... 1257-58 Funding for ... 1257-58 Opening of, timeline re ... 1023, 1025 Services provided at ... 1025
Eastwood public health clinic
Transfer to East Edmonton health centre ... 1257
Edmonton-Meadowlark (Constituency)
Member for ... 1641 Member for, as parliamentary assistant for Health and Wellness, communications re emergency services ... 1314
Emergency debates under Standing Order 30 (Procedure)
Waiver of standing orders re conclusion of debate ... 1328
Emergency debates under Standing Order 30 (Current session)
Cataract surgery contracting procedure (not proceeded with) ... 817-18 Emergency medical services (not proceeded with) ... 919 Emergency medical services (proceeded with) ... 1320-21, 1322-23
Ethics, Political
Members' acceptance of gifts ... 1123
Extendicare Michener Hill
Capacity of ... 1316 Care provided at ... 1314 General remarks ... 907, 1056 Transfer of patients to ... 1152
Family physicians - Supply
Fish - Alberta
Edibility of ... 42 Mercury contamination in, consumption advisories re ... 42
Food safety
Home-baked goods sale regulations ... 422-23
Foothills medical centre
Addition of beds at ... 1204 Transition unit beds, opening of ... 1057
Government caucus
Suspension of Member for Edmonton-Meadowlark ... 1641
Government contracts
Health minister's travel expenses paid by Telus ... 1123
H1N1 influenza virus
Preparations for ... 155-56 Preparations for, impact on syphilis prevention campaign ... 327, 365 Vaccine costs ... 155-56
Health advisory committees, Local
General remarks ... 99, 244
Health advocate
Establishment of (Bill 17) ... 1011, 1073 General remarks ... 1123
Health care facilities - Construction
Health care facilities - Lethbridge
Security provisions in ... 547
Health care facilities - Security aspects
Contracting out to private operators ... 547, 666, 673 Improvement of ... 547 Security cameras installation ... 547, 666
Health Care Protection Act (Bill 11, 2000)
Health issues - Fort Chipewyan
Ministerial trips re ... 1029 Research study into, agreement re ... 1029, 1095
Health Link Alberta
Emergency room wait times information provision ... 907, 908 Utility in decreasing hospital emergency services use ... 1484
Health ombudsman (Proposed)
Health Professions Advisory Board
Input re scope of practice deliberations ... 793
Health Quality Council
Annual report 2009-10 (SP427/10: Tabled) ... 1649 Calgary Children's hospital patient safety investigation, release of report ... 393, 399, 419, 423, 424, 544 Calgary Children's hospital patient safety investigation, report on ... 572 Calgary Children's hospital patient safety investigation, report on tabled (SP125/10) ... 553 Emergency service wait times, investigation of ... 973 Emergency service wait times, report on ... 91 Governance of ... 1801 Input into Alberta health act public consultations ... 1011 Input into health planning ... 1745 Quality assurance reviews ... 1485 Review of emergency services ... 1404 Review of HIN1 flu response, timeline re ... 1801 Role of in quality assurance ... 1151 Role of, per Alberta Health Act ... 1073 Surgical services capacity ... 115
Health sciences personnel
Code of conduct for ... 483-84, 566, 812 Scope of practice ... 793 Scope of practice, consultation re ... 793 Shortages of, impact on service delivery ... 1473 Suggestions of, as input into health system organization ... 669-70 Utilization of, interprofessional issues ... 514-15
Health sciences personnel - Education
Interprofessional training ... 514-15
Health sciences personnel - Supply
General remarks ... 92, 238 Provincial strategy re ... 1694 Review of ... 208
Health workforce planning
Impact of AHS 5-year funding on ... 1024
Hip and knee surgery
Contracting to private clinics ... 145-46 General remarks ... 92, 113-14
Hip and knee surgery - Calgary
Contracting to private clinics ... 146, 180
Hip and knee surgery - Grande Prairie area
Holy Cross Centre, Calgary
Asbestos issues in cancer treatment area ... 324
Home care program
Funding for ... 907, 1091 General remarks ... 211 Initiatives re ... 908
Hospital beds
Acute care, statistics re ... 1639 Acute care, use by individuals waiting for long-term care beds ... 1806 Addition of ... 1091, 1121, 1315, 1473, 1694-95, 1806-07 Addition of, impact on staffing needs ... 1024 Addition of, increase in staff to accommodate ... 1313 Addition of, transition beds ... 1313, 1315 Audit of ... 1403-04 Reopening of ... 1004, 1403-04 Retention of beds previously planned for cutting ... 44, 1313 Statistics re, per capita ... 1315
Hospital discharge policy
Hospital foundations
Input into expenditure of funds raised by ... 669, 815
Hospitals
Chief medical officers in, proposal for ... 1057, 1091, 1745 Decision-making authority within ... 1745 Patient safety, initiatives re ... 1151 Suicide in ... 1151
Hospitals - Calgary
Overcrowding in, initiatives re ... 908
Hospitals - Construction
Provincial funding for ... 92
Hospitals - Edmonton
Additional medical observation unit beds ... 1315 Additional transition beds ... 1315 Medical assessment unit beds opened ... 1315 Overcrowding in, initiatives re ... 908
Hospitals - Emergency services
Deaths of patients at, AHS review of ... 1485 General remarks ... 91-92, 907-08, 942, 1007, 1057-58 Length of stay protocols, provincial strategy re ... 1641 Minister of Health and Wellness's visits to ... 911 Performance measures re ... 976, 1025 Quality assurance review ... 1404
Hospitals - Emergency services - Capacity issues
Access and standards ... 942 Additional acute-care beds to address ... 908, 919, 1262, 1313, 1341, 1476, 1693-94 Additional addictions services to address ... 910 Additional beds announced to address ... 905, 907, 919, 941, 976, 1023-24, 1024, 1096, 1151, 1204, 1484, 1639, 1698 Additional continuing care beds to address ... 908, 1484, 1485 Additional staff to address ... 1313, 1341, 1476 Canada health transfer to reduce wait times ... 1061, 1063 Change in decision-making authority to address ... 1096, 1257 Consultation with stakeholders re ... 1257 Dept. of Health and Wellness parliamentary assistant e-mail re ... 1314 Emergency debate re (proceeded with) ... 1320-21, 1322-23 Emergency physicians' letter re ... 911, 919, 976, 1483, 1806 Emergency physicians' letter re, government response to ... 1584-85 Impact of Villa Caritas conversion on ... 977 Legislated solutions re ... 1262, 1470 New directives re ... 973-74, 1002 Overcapacity protocols, consultation re ... 1257, 1262 Overcapacity protocols, implementation of ... 973, 1340-41, 1639 Overcrowding ... 905, 1003-04 Paramedics' wait times in ... 1121 Performance measures re ... 1002, 1147, 1203, 1476 Performance measures re, public reporting of ... 974, 1002 Provincial strategy re ... 976, 1091, 1147 Public reporting of wait times ... 976, 1030, 1061 Public reporting of wait times, by site ... 974, 1007 Request for emergency debate re (not proceeded with) ... 919 Statistics re, collection and reporting of ... 1641 Statistics re, historical data ... 1641, 1695-96 Wait times directives ... 973-74, 1257 Wildrose Alliance letter re proposals for ... 1057
Hospitals - Emergency services - Capacity issues - Calgary
Additional beds announced to address ... 908, 976, 1262 Increase in wait times ... 941-42 Performance measures re ... 1203
Hospitals - Emergency services - Capacity issues - Edmonton
Additional beds announced to address ... 976, 1262, 1315 Performance measures re ... 1203 Wait times, East Edmonton health centre opening to address ... 1025
Hospitals - Emergency services - Red Deer
Hospitals - Grande Prairie
Hospitals - Lacombe
Security provisions in ... 673
Hospitals - Lethbridge
Security provisions in ... 547
Hospitals - Ponoka
Security services for ... 673
Hospitals - Rural areas
Local fundraising for ... 669 Security services for ... 666
Immunization
Provision of, by pharmacists ... 724
Interprofessional Health Collaborative
Introduction of Guests (School groups, individuals) ...
Introduction of Visitors (Visiting dignitaries)
Alberta Health Services Board Chair ... 999
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Evening sittings (fall) (Motion 19: Hancock/Zwozdesky) ... 1133 Punjabi remarks in ... 127, 1689
Local authorities pension plan
Membership of Health Services executives in ... 786
Lois Hole hospital for women
Fundraising for ... 669 Utilization of beds in ... 1024
Long-term care facilities (Nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals)
Addition of beds ... 1806-07 Conversion to continuing care facilities ... 941 Food services review ... 1403 Increase in beds ... 1694-95 Supply of, letter re ... 790 Waiting list length (Q10/10: Accepted) ... 455 Waiting list length (Q10/10: Response tabled as SP424/10) ... 1649 Waiting list length, impact on hospital bed utilization ... 1315
Long-term care facilities (Nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals) - Construction
Long-term care facilities (Nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals) - Didsbury
General remarks ... 61-62
Long-term care facilities (Nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals) - Fort McMurray
Increase in beds ... 1130
Long-term care facilities (Nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals) - Red Deer
Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute
Medical care - Private-sector delivery
Medical care, Primary
Networks for ... 242, 510, 514, 671 Networks for, provincial strategy re ... 1750, 1751-52 Networks for, renewal of trilateral (AHS/AMA/Health and Wellness) master agreement on ... 1263 Northeast Edmonton centre for ... 331, 1257-58
Medical care, Primary - Rural areas
Networks for, impact of funding model on ... 1262-63
Medical care system
5-year action plan re ... 1007, 1314, 1315, 1692, 1693, 1694, 1744 5-year action plan re, public response to ... 1746 Community-based, provincial strategy re ... 1696 Dispute resolution processes ... 1073 Governance of ... 893, 1745 Health workers' suggestions as input into ... 669-70 Improvements to ... 905 Local decision-making, provincial strategy re ... 1340-41 Performance measures for, AHS dashboard indicator project ... 115, 147, 1007, 1342, 1588-90, 1693, 1698, 1705-06, 1745 Policy development re ... 1011 Prenatal care, initiatives re ... 1257 Provincial strategy re ... 91-92, 118, 147, 905, 1314, 1698 Provincial strategy re, communication to public re ... 58 Public input re ... 118, 208, 1082, 1697
Medical care system - Calgary
Capital plan for ... 1692
Medical care system - Capacity issues
Access to, improvement of ... 57, 91, 115 Cost-benefit analysis of wait times ... 155-56 Improvement in wait times ... 57, 91, 99-100 Provincial strategy re ... 1712-14 Publicly available information re ... 1030, 1061
Medical care system - Edmonton
2010 capital plan, publication of ... 1692
Medical care system - Europe
Medical care system - Finance
5-year guaranteed plan re ... 44, 57-58, 92, 115, 118, 147, 153, 156, 188, 238, 242, 244, 447, 567, 604, 667, 690, 723, 815, 905, 907, 911, 942, 973, 1004, 1007, 1091, 1476, 1484-85 General remarks ... 91-92, 114-15, 145, 153-54, 1475-76 Public funding of, provincial strategy re ... 1691, 1692, 1693, 1696-97, 1745-46, 1802
Medical care system - Northeast Edmonton
Access to ... 331 Pediatric services ... 1257
Medical care system - Utilization
Medical profession
Calgary Children's hospital physician's behaviour ... 572 Code of conduct for ... 483-84, 566 Prohibition from speaking publicly on health system issues ... 419, 423, 483-84, 566-67 Telephone advice, ability to bill for ... 1404
Medical profession - Education
Additional spaces created for ... 1473, 1694 Residents' access to positions in teaching hospitals ... 895
Medical profession - Rural areas
Medical profession - Supply
Medical profession, Internationally trained
Access to positions in teaching hospitals ... 895 Accreditation process for ... 364, 672
Medical specialists
Access to, improvement of ... 91
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Mental health diversion project, Calgary
Number of clients dealt with by, 2008-10 (Q9/10: Response tabled as SP483/10) ... 1653
Mental Health Patient Advocate
Mental Health Patient Advocate Office
Annual report 2009-10 (SP393/10: Tabled) ... 1408
Mental health services
Additional beds ... 941, 1806-07 Alternative to emergency room use ... 910 Funding for ... 910 Initiatives re ... 1485 Provincial strategy re ... 910, 1696, 1698
Mental health services - Children
Mental health services - Edmonton
Additional hospital beds for ... 1262 Funding for ... 1257
Mentally ill - Housing - Edmonton
Conversion of Villa Caritas for ... 977-78
MĂ©tis - Fort Chipewyan
Participation in health research agreement ... 1095
Ministers (Provincial government)
Minister's Advisory Committee on Health
General remarks ... 99 Report, recommendations ... 41, 58, 118, 1011 Surgical services capacity, recommendations re ... 115
Mitchell Eye Centre, Calgary
Capacity for expanded cataract surgeries ... 845
Multiple sclerosis
Advocacy for ... 1259 Research re ... 1259 Zamboni treatment for, clinical trials re ... 1061-62, 1259 Zamboni treatment for, federal-provincial-territorial discussions re ... 1259 Zamboni treatment for, ultrasound tests in Alberta following ... 1259
New Democratic opposition
Report by (Alberta's Health Care - What People Want) (SP49/10: Tabled) ... 1696-97
Northeast community health centre, Edmonton
Staffing ... 1057-58 Staged, phased in approach to completion of ... 1057-58 Upgrading to original plan for ... 331
Northtown seniors' housing, Wetaskiwin
Norwood-Glenrose long-term care facility
Postponement of expansion of ... 1315
Nurse practitioners
Medication prescribing capability ... 793 In primary care networks ... 1263 In primary care networks, funding for ... 510
Nurses
Code of conduct for ... 483-84, 566 Full- and part-time status, 2008-10 (Q36/10: Accepted) ... 458 Full- and part-time status, 2008-10 (Q36/10: Response tabled as SP484/10) ... 1653 Overtime hours worked, 2008-10 (Q37/10: Accepted) ... 459 Overtime hours worked, 2008-10 (Q37/10: Response tabled as SP485/10) ... 1653 In primary care networks, interprofessional issues ... 514-15 Prohibition from speaking publicly on health system issues ... 419, 423, 483-84, 566-67
Nurses - Supply
Addition of ... 1341 Addition of, targets for ... 1473 Addition of, to address emergency services wait times ... 1484, 1485 Alberta opportunities for employment ... 211 General remarks ... 153, 238, 973, 1004, 1123 Provincial strategy re ... 1693-94 Recruitment of, provincial strategy re ... 1024 Reinstatement of former nurses ... 1003, 1004
Oral Question Period (Current session topics)
5-year health action plan ... 1744 Addiction treatment centres, standards for ... 910 Airdrie-Chestermere constituency issues ... 96 Alberta Health Services Board ... 44, 99-100, 1007, 1475-76, 1640, 1642, 1692-93 Alberta Health Services budget ... 667 Alberta Health Services decision-making ... 419, 423, 669-70, 815 Alberta Health Services executive bonuses ... 690, 720, 722-23, 753, 785-86, 848-49, 896 Alberta Health Services executive contracts ... 756-57 Alberta Health Services executive pensions ... 786 Alberta Health Services financial operations ... 971-72, 975 Alberta Health Services, food services review ... 1403 Alberta Health Services performance measures ... 1698 Alberta Health Services president and CEO ... 1342 Ambulance dispatch services, centralization of ... 511-12, 514, 515 Avastin treatment for cancer ... 692-93 Bonnyville primary care network ... 510 Calgary cancer services ... 324 Cancer services ... 567, 604 Cancer services in Calgary ... 1090, 1122 Cancer treatment wait times ... 1124 Capital bonds investments ... 756 Cataract surgery ... 689, 690, 758, 759, 786-87, 789, 809, 812, 845, 893 CCSVI (treatment for MS) clinical trials ... 1061-62 CCSVI (treatment for MS) follow-up ... 1259 Child poverty ... 1313 Cytology lab services, centralization of ... 147, 448, 478 Dental infection prevention and control standards ... 695 Didsbury long-term care ... 61-62 Drug houses, environmental hazards re ... 1260 East Calgary health centre ... 181, 898-99 East Edmonton health centre ... 1025, 1057-58 Emergency medical services ... 905, 911, 941-42, 973-74, 976, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1057, 1091, 1096, 1123, 1204, 1257, 1262, 1314 Emergency medical services in Red Deer ... 1056-57 Emergency medical services response times ... 1121-22 Emergency medical services wait times ... 1147, 1203, 1470, 1639, 1695-96 Emergency medical services wait times, relief for ... 907-08 Emergency service capacity issues, additional beds to relieve ... 1023-24 Environmental hazards of drug houses ... 1260 Erotic massage parlours ... 483 Fish consumption advisory guidelines ... 42 Food regulations for sale of home-baked goods ... 422-23 Foreign-trained physicians ... 364 Fort Chipewyan health research agreement ... 1029, 1095 Grande Prairie bone and joint clinic ... 274 Health care budget ... 57-58 Health care decision-making ... 244 Health care facilities infrastructure ... 358 Health care facilities security services ... 666, 673 Health care funding ... 91-92, 153-54, 188 Health care ID cards ... 510 Health care primary care networks ... 242, 1262-63, 1750, 1751-52 Health care, public funding of ... 1691-92, 1693, 1802, 1996-97 Health care services in Grande Prairie area ... 273-74 Health care services, private ... 114 Health care system acute-care beds ... 1313, 1639 Health care system concerns ... 1403-04 Health care system governance ... 893, 1025, 1745 Health care system manager termination benefits ... 1314-15 Health care system utilization review ... 208 Health care workers' code of conduct ... 483-84, 566-67 Health care workforce ... 1473 Health care workforce labour utilization ... 514-15 Health care workforce supply ... 1693-94 Health legislation ... 41 Health professions scope of practice ... 793 Health Quality Council ... 1801 Hip and knee surgeries ... 92 Hip and knee surgeries, funding for Calgary services ... 180 Hospital care, activity-based funding model for ... 147, 447 Hospital discharge orders ... 812 Hospital site administrators ... 1340-41 Lethbridge health facilities security services ... 547 Long-term care beds ... 1315-16, 1694-95, 1806-07 Long-term care facility closures ... 907 Long-term care funding ... 241-42, 790 Long-term care in Grande Prairie ... 420 Long-term care in Red Deer ... 1152 Medical procedure wait times ... 1030, 1061, 1063 Medical residency positions ... 895 Medical services statistics ... 1641 Medicine Hat pain management clinic ... 1059 Member for Edmonton-Meadowlark ... 1641, 1749 Michener Hill Village ... 1314 Northeast Edmonton health services ... 331, 1257-58 Northtown seniors' housing ... 97-98 Nursing recruitment ... 1024 Patient safety investigation ... 1151 Patient safety investigation, report re ... 393, 399, 424, 544, 572 Peter Lougheed Centre beds ... 238 Pharmaceutical strategy ... 724 Podiatry surgery ... 182 Publicly funded health care ... 1745-46, 1802 Registered nursing graduates ... 211 Rural family physician recruitment ... 671-72 Rural physician recruitment ... 793 Seniors' pharmaceutical plan ... 1808-09 Special-needs children's first point of contact ... 910 Surgery wait time reduction strategy ... 114-15, 118, 145-46 Syphilis caseload ... 327 Syphilis prevention and control ... 365 Telus consumer health platform ... 1123 Villa Caritas long-term care facility ... 941, 972, 977-78
Pain management clinics - Medicine Hat
AHS contract renewal ... 1059 Contract with Alberta Health Services ... 1059
Paladin Security Group Ltd.
Health facility contract, Lethbridge ... 547
Peter Lougheed centre (Calgary general hospital)
Addition of beds at ... 1057, 1204 Emergency room expansion ... 92 Expansion of ... 92, 238 Opening of new transition beds at ... 1023 Reallocation of beds at ... 1023, 1313 Reopening of beds at ... 92, 238 Services for east Calgary residents ... 181
Pharmacists
Enhanced role of ... 724, 793 Enhanced role of, provision of immunizations ... 724 Enhanced role of, transition fund for ... 724
Podiatry surgery
Coverage under health care plan ... 182
Prostitution
Public health issues re ... 483
Public Health Appeal Board
Annual report 2009 (Tabled as intersessional deposit SP223/10) ... 7 June/10 (reported in Votes and Proceedings 25 Oct./10)
Public health system
Dismissal of doctors in ... 327 Plan for ... 327 Population health promotion program ... 1260
Public health system - Edmonton
Hiring of staff in ... 1257
Public service - Alberta
Senior officials' achievement bonuses, suspension of ... 723
Putting People First (Report from public consultations re an Alberta Health Act)
Queen Elizabeth II hospital, Grande Prairie
Bone and joint clinic, discontinuation of ... 274 Emergency/endoscopy departments changes ... 274
Red Deer regional hospital centre
Regional health authorities (Former)
Executives' termination benefits ... 1314-15 Replacement by Health Services Board ... 971-72, 975
Restaurants - Inspections
Number performed, 2008-10 (Q38/10: Response tabled as SP486/10) ... 1653
Rockyview general hospital
Services for east Calgary residents ... 181 Transition unit beds ... 1057, 1204
Royal Alexandra hospital
Cataract surgeries ... 114 Funding for surgeries at ... 114 Hip and knee surgeries ... 92, 180 Medical assessment unit beds opened ... 974, 1057, 1313 Opening of new transition beds at ... 1023-24 Patients waiting for long-term care placements ... 1315 Programs ... 941 Reopening of beds in ... 1404 Staffing ... 92 Suicide of patient at ... 1485 Wait times in, additional beds announced to address ... 1262 Wait times in, impact of east Edmonton health centre opening on ... 1025 Wait times in, impact of opening of northeast community health centre on ... 1057-58
Senior citizens
Transfer from hospital beds to continuing care facility funded by capital bonds ... 756
Senior citizens - Housing
Funding for, by Alberta capital bonds ... 756
Senior citizens - Mental health services - Edmonton
Additional hospital beds for ... 1262
Sexual massage parlours
Public health risk of ... 483
Speech from the Throne
Debate (comments and questions during) ... 105, 127-28
Standing Order 30 motions
Motion to waive time limit on debate (Denied) ... 1328
Standing Orders
Motion to waive 30(5)(a) and (b) ... 1328 Waiver of SO 35(a) and (b), 4(2), re conclusion of emergency debate ... 1328
STARS (Air ambulance system)
Impact of provincial governance of ambulance system on ... 512
Stollery Children's hospital
Sturgeon community hospital, St. Albert
Patients waiting for long-term care placements ... 1315
Substance abuse - Treatment facilities
Accreditation and standards re ... 910 Additional beds for ... 1313 AHS website advertisement for ... 910 Alternative to emergency room use ... 910 Deaths of clients in ... 910 Funding for ... 910 General remarks ... 241, 910 Referral process ... 910
Supportive living facilities
Assisted living facilities, conversion of continuing care facilities to ... 241-42 Funding for, by Alberta capital bonds ... 241, 790 Provincial strategy re ... 1315
Supportive living facilities, Affordable - Grande Prairie
Surgery waiting lists
Impact of funding level on ... 114-15 Online registry re ... 156, 1030 Publicly available information re wait times ... 1030 Reduction strategy re, additional funding for ... 114-15, 118, 145-46, 153, 244, 274 Reduction strategy re, consultations with surgeons re ... 180 Reduction strategy re, cost-benefit analysis of ... 145, 146, 155-56, 208 Reduction strategy re, impact on medical staff ... 114, 153, 180 Wait times, AHS strategy re ... 91, 114-15, 1030 Wait times, targets for ... 1696-97
Surgery waiting lists - Calgary
Reduction of, strategy re ... 146
Syphilis
Group to review prevention strategy ... 327, 365 Public awareness campaign re ... 327, 365
Telus Communications Company
Consumer medical records system ... 1123
Tom Baker cancer centre
Capacity problems, physicians prohibited from speaking out re ... 419, 423, 483-84 Overcrowding in ... 324, 1090
Towers Perrin
Health Services senior executive positions review ... 786
Unanimous consent to complete routine (Assembly procedure)
United Nurses of Alberta
Collective agreement ... 1473 Input into health planning ... 1745 Meetings with province re Alberta nurses employment opportunities ... 211
Valley Park Manor, Red Deer
Villa Caritas (Long-term care facility)
Vision 2020; Health Care for Today and the Future
Wait Time Alliance for Timely Access to Health Care
Provision of Alberta data to ... 1030, 1063
Walter C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre
Emergency and transition beds in ... 907, 974, 1057
Wildrose Alliance opposition
Health care funding, press release re ... 911 Health plan ... 1123 Hospital emergency services proposals ... 1091, 1340-41 Hospital emergency services proposals, letter to minister re ... 1057
Wolf Creek primary care network
W.W. Cross Cancer Institute
Increase in patient load ... 567
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