Zwozdesky, Gene (PC, Edmonton-Mill Creek; Minister of Health and Wellness to October 12, 2011)
Addiction and mental health strategy (proposed)
General remarks ... 238 Timeline ... 722
Air quality - Monitoring
Three Creeks area emissions and odours ... 148
Alberta Children's hospital , Calgary
Laboratory use for adult testing ... 547-48
Alberta College of Combined Laboratory and X-Ray Technologists
Annual report 2010 ... 1135
Alberta College of Medical Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologists
Annual report 2010 (SP237/11: tabled) ... 674
Alberta College of Medical Laboratory Technologists
Annual report 2010 (SP447/11: tabled as intersessional deposit) ... 20 July 2011
Alberta College of Pharmacists
Annual report 2009-10 (SP213/11: tabled) ... 575 Concerns re drug shortages ... 301
Alberta College of Social Workers
Annual report 2010 (SP331/11: tabled) ... 841
Alberta Dental Association and College
Annual report 2010 (SP216/11: tabled) ... 575
Alberta Health Act (Bill 17, 2010)
Alberta Health Facilities Review Committee
Annual report 2009-10 (SP188/11: tabled) ... 550
Alberta Health Services (authority) (AHS)
Administration of ambulance service ... 543 Annual report 2009-10 (SP190/11: tabled) ... 550 Annual report 2010-11 (SP452/11: tabled as intersessional deposit) ... 26 July 2011 Appointee qualifications, legislated requirements on public disclosure of ... 69-70, 115 Auditor General report ... 689-90 Centralization of services ... 659 CEO, recruitment process and terms of appointment for ... 69-70 CEO, review of reimbursements for ... 895 Code of conduct ... 324, 390, 427 Data security provisions ... 361 Ethics and compliance officer's role in addressing complaints ... 508 Financial reporting, Auditor General recommendations on ... 511 Internal review of emergency services ... 235, 236 Internal review of emergency services, emergency physicians' response to ... 297 Meetings with opposition MLAs, use of Canadian Strategy Group as brokers ... 114-15, 176 Patient advocacy committee ... 1042 Policy on employee responsibility to report improper activities ... 145-46 Policy on safe disclosure (SP35, 186/11: tabled) ... 152 Practitioner responsibilities and accountability, excerpt from bylaws re (SP121/11: tabled) ... 397 Relationship to Dept. of Health and Wellness ... 69-70
Alberta Health Services Board (AHSB)
Alberta hospital Edmonton
Patient transfers to other facilities ... 263
Alberta Human Rights Commission
Hearings on dismissal of Capital health physician (D. Candler) ... 809-10
Alberta Land Stewardship Amendment Act , 2011 (Bill 10)
Alberta Medical Association (AMA)
Health care system investigation, position on ... 687, 688-89 Health care system, public inquiry vs. review, president's April 15, 2011, letter on, Health and Wellness minister's response ... 693 Master agreement with province ... 151, 301-2, 356, 389, 641, 645, 658 Master agreement with province, president's letter on (SP122/11: tabled) ... 389 Relations with AHS and Dept. of Health and Wellness, president's letter on ... 667
Alberta Mental Health Act
Care facility designations ... 263
Alberta Mental Health Board
Reinstatement (proposed) ... 298
Alberta Opticians Association
Annual report 2010 (SP458/11: tabled as intersessional deposit) ... 24 Aug. 2011
Alberta Pharmacists' Association
Concerns re drug shortages ... 301
Alberta Public Agencies Governance Act
Requirements re public disclosure of appointee qualifications ... 69, 115
Alberta's Health Legislation: Moving Forward (July 12, 2010, report)
Appropriation Act , 2011 (Bill 17)
Asia Advisory Council Act (Bill 1)
Auditor General
Alberta Health Services financial reporting, recommendations on ... 511 Capital health region financial reporting, report on ... 264-65, 298-99, 567, 657-58 Implementation of recommendations on Alberta Health Services ... 689-90 Mental health services, recommendations on ... 722 Suicide prevention, recommendations on ... 722
Budget 2011 debate
Government Motion 8 (Snelgrove: carried) (debate participants) ... 129-31 Government Motion 8 (Snelgrove: carried) (questions and comments during) ... 131-32
Calgary & Area Physician's Association (CAPA)
President's advocacy on mental health services ... 451 President's advocacy on mental health services, Calgary region head of psychiatry response to ... 475, 479, 508 President's remarks on proposed investigation of health care system ... 355
Canadian Medical Protective Association
Assistance to physicians re patient advocacy ... 631-32
Canadian Strategy Group
Contract with Alberta Health Services to arrange meetings with MLAs ... 114-15
Cancer
Excerpt of report by the Canadian Cancer Society, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and Statistics Canada (SP191/11: tabled) ... 550 Survival rates, comparison with other jurisdictions ... 542
Cancer - Diagnosis and treatment
Capital health region (former authority)
Chief executive's awareness of assertions re patient care ... 65 Financial reporting ... 65-66, 336, 511, 544 Financial reporting, Auditor General report re ... 264-65, 298-99, 567, 657-58 Investigation of patient care (proposed) ... 65-66, 175 Patient advocacy by physicians ... 65, 115-16 Physician's (C. McNamee) statement of claim ... 319-20 Physician's (C. McNamee) statement of claim, terms of settlement ... 353-54
Capital projects
20-year strategic plan ... 47 Project scheduling ... 47
Centennial Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury
College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta
Annual report 2009-10 (SP399/11: tabled) ... 1135
College and Association of Respiratory Therapists
Annual report 2010 (SP214/11: tabled) ... 575
College of Alberta Dental Assistants
Annual report 2009-10 (SP189/11: tabled) ... 550
College of Alberta Denturists
Annual report 2010 (SP449/11: tabled as intersessional deposit) ... 20 July 2011
College of Dental Technologists of Alberta
Annual report 2008 (SP446/1: tabled as intersessional deposit) ... 20 July 2011
College of Hearing Aid Practitioners of Alberta
Annual report 2009-10 (SP228/11: tabled) ... 606
College of Physical Therapists of Alberta
Annual report 2010 (SP450/11: tabled as intersessional deposit) ... 20 July 2011
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta
Annual report 2009 (SP177/11: tabled) ... 516 Annual report 2010 (SP457/11: tabled as intersessional deposit) ... 24 Aug. 2011 Former registrar's awareness of assertions re patient care ... 65 Former registrar's e-mail correspondence with Minster of Health and Wellness (SP45/11: tabled) ... 184 Position on patient advocacy by physicians, letter on ... 354 Response to assertions re deaths of patients on surgery wait-lists ... 116
College of Registered Dental Hygienists of Alberta
Annual report 2010 (SP448/11: tabled as intersessional deposit) ... 20 July 2011
College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of Alberta
Annual report 2010 (SP178/11: tabled) ... 516
Communities ChooseWell program
Continuing care strategy
Relation to long-term care ... 652
Continuing/extended care facilities
Charges to residents ... 1128 Provincial strategy ... 47 Wait times (Written Question 18/11: accepted) ... 991
Corrections Amendment Act , 2011 (Bill 7)
Courts , provincial
Statements of claim ... 336-37
Covenant Health Group
Financial reporting of ... 299
Dept. of Health and Wellness
Annual report 2010-11 (SP430/11: tabled as intersessional deposit) ... 2011, ne 29 Auditor General recommendations ... 689-90 Budget, level of detail provided in ... 651 Consultants, awarding of contracts to former minister's assistant ... 115 Former ministers' awareness of assertions on patient care ... 65, 236 Main estimates 2011-12 debate ... 640-41, 644-55, 657-60 Main estimates 2011-12, questions arising from ... 895-96 Minister's past experience as associate minister ... 816 Minister's role ... 512, 722-23 Report to minister (May 2010) ... 1300
Deputy Chair of Committees
Election of Member for Edmonton-Mill Creek ... 1208
Diagnostic equipment , medical
Drugs , prescription
Costs ... 641 Shortages of ... 301
East Edmonton health centre
Funding ... 647 Operating budget for ... 46
Emergency debates under Standing Order 30 (current session)
Health care system (proposed) ... 319 Health care system (proceeded with) ... 336-37
Emergency medical services (ambulances, etc.) - Airdrie
Integration under Alberta Health Services, response times ... 543
Green Scholars of Alberta
Members' statements ... 1596
Grey Nuns community hospital
Emergency room wait times ... 727-28
H1N1 influenza
Outbreak management ... 646
Health advocate (proposed)
Health care system
Accountability ... 645, 651, 659 Governance ... 144, 985 Improvements ... 644-46, 647, 657 Initiatives ... 632 Investigation of patient care (proposed) ... 65-66, 115-16, 145-46, 175, 200-201, 235-36, 266-67 Investigation of patient deaths (proposed), Health Quality Council chair's remarks re ... 145-46, 297 Performance measures ... 354, 654, 659 Physician confidence in system ... 689-990, 958 Public satisfaction ... 337, 354, 389-90, 1042 Public satisfaction, Environics survey on (SP4/11: tabled) ... 144 Public satisfaction, Premier's response to ... 266 Sustainability ... 657, 659
Health care system - Capacity issues
Health care system - Finance
5-year guaranteed plan ... 129-30, 640-41, 657 Administration fees ... 241 Amortization expenses ... 641 Financial reporting, Auditor General report on ... 264-65, 391 Financial reporting, changes in ... 240-41 Former minister of Health and Wellness July 12 PowerPoint presentation ... 1299 Funding ... 129-31 Legal fees, reporting of ... 241, 266 One-time funding ... 202, 266 Operational funding ... 640-41 Out-of-province care ... 660 Public vs. private funding ... 1299 Severance pay re contract terminations ... 266
Health care system - Fort McMurray
Public confidence in ... 759
Health care system - Health Quality Council 2011 review
Advisory panel, membership ... 508 Advisory panel, news release re (SP198/11: tabled) ... 551 Announcement ... 297, 360 General remarks ... 318-21, 324, 337, 356 Independence ... 320-21, 447, 834 Minister of Health and Wellness's March 12, 2011, letter (SP110/11: tabled) ... 329-30 Reporting authority ... 546, 693 Terms of reference ... 353-55, 424, 426, 446-47, 451, 479-80, 546, 700 Terms of reference, March 24, 2011, document re (SP199/11: tabled) ... 551 Terms of reference, news release re (SP197/11: tabled) ... 551 Terms of reference, tabling in the Legislature of related documents ... 510 Testimony ... 447, 508 Testimony by physicians ... 424, 809-10, 957 Testimony by physicians, impact of pre-existing nondisclosure agreements on ... 692, 695, 758, 1041-42 Testimony by physicians, legal protection re ... 631-32, 666-67 Testimony by physicians (T. Winton), letter to the editor on ... 837 Timeline ... 446
Health care system - Private-sector delivery model
Cost-benefit analysis ... 178-79 Cost of contracts ... 179
Health care system - Public inquiry vs.
Access to information covered in nondisclosure agreements ... 689 Alberta Medical Association position ... 666, 667 General remarks ... 321, 324, 353-56, 360, 389-90, 424, 451, 542, 722-23, 757-58, 760, 815-16, 957 Health Sciences Association of Alberta position ... 810-11 Minister of Health and Wellness's remarks re ... 693
Health Disciplines Board
Annual report 2009 (SP215/11: tabled) ... 575
Health facilities - Calgary
Maternal/newborn centre (proposed), documents re (Motion for a Return 15/11: defeated) ... 992 Prioritization ... 992
Health facilities - Construction
Newspaper article re rural facilities (SP238/11: tabled) ... 674 Operationalization ... 178
Health facilities - High Prairie
Timeline on new facility ... 178
Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA)
Response to allegations re deaths of patients on surgery wait-lists ... 116
Health Sciences Association of Alberta
Statement re patient advocacy ... 810, 811
Health sciences professionals
Departures, settlement agreements re, nondisclosure agreements ... 324 Professional roles ... 660 Responsibility to report evidence of criminal activity or financial mismanagement ... 321
Health sciences professionals - Supply
Increase in number of ... 810
Home care
Services provided ... 648
Hospitals - Calgary
Acute-care beds, statistics on wait times for ... 114
Hospitals - Edmonton
Occupancy rates (Written Question 16: accepted) ... 991 Patient data security ... 360-61
Hospitals - Emergency services - Capacity issues
Emergency physicians' letter on, Alberta Health Services response to ... 233-34 Investigation of patient care (proposed) ... 200, 233-34, 233-35, 236, 297 Investigation of patient care in former Capital health region (proposed) ... 175 Liberal Party policy on ... 114 Wait times, performance measures on ... 64, 114, 200-201, 654, 658, 666, 727-28
Hospitals- Rural areas
Newspaper article re (SP238/11: tabled) ... 674
Infectious diseases
Blood-borne pathogens, public education re ... 448
Information and Privacy Commissioner Search Committee , Select Special
Appointment of members (Government Motion 17: carried) ... 1111-12
International trade - Asia
International trade - United States
Factors influencing ... 1064
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Land Titles Act
Amendments to act ... 136
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Legislative Assembly of Alberta - Adjournment
Spring sitting 2011 adjournment (Government Motion 16: carried) ... 1053
Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals)
Activity-based funding, pilot project re ... 896 Addition of beds ... 47 Addition of beds, private vs. public ... 648 Costs to residents, class action lawsuits re ... 1128 Provincial strategy ... 47, 647-48, 649-50 Statistics ... 47 Wait-lists ... 47
Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals) - Calgary
Clifton Manor Care Home roof collapse ... 672
Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals) - Edmonton
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Access ... 68, 114 Private-sector delivery, cost of contracts ... 179
McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health
Facility utilization ... 650
Members' Statements (current session)
Green Scholars of Alberta ... 1596
Mental health advisory council (proposed)
Mental health services
Auditor General recommendations ... 722 Facility safety protocols ... 298 Physician advocacy re ... 451 Provincial strategy ... 238, 646
Mental health services - Children
Mental health services - Fort McMurray
Residential treatment beds ... 722
Mental health services - Medicine Hat
Residential treatment beds ... 722
Midwifery
Mount Royal University baccalaureate program ... 1044
Minister's Advisory Committee on Health
Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act , 2011 (Bill 19)
Misericordia hospital
Patient data security ... 360-61
Mount Royal University
Midwifery baccalaureate program ... 1044
Multiple sclerosis - CCSVI (Zamboni) treatment
Follow-up treatment ... 568 Research studies ... 568, 638-39
Northern Lights health region (former authority)
Physician's (M. Sauvé) statement of claim (SP269/11: tabled) ... 759
Nutrition and diet
Heart and Stroke Foundation food information program ... 452-53 Public awareness programs ... 452-53
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Air quality monitoring in the Three Creeks area ... 148 Alberta Children's hospital ... 547-48 Alberta Health Services administrative expenses ... 240-41 Alberta Health Services CEO position ... 69-70 Ambulance service in Airdrie ... 543 Bladder and uterine prolapse surgery ... 1046 Calgary south health campus ... 203 Calgary south health campus operational funding ... 200 Canadian Strategy Group ... 114-15, 176 Cancer care wait times ... 65-66, 115-16, 145-46, 542, 759 Cataract surgery wait times ... 543 CCSVI clinical trials ... 568, 638-39 CCSVI observational study ... 568 Dr. Ciaran McNamee ... 319-20 Continuing care costs ... 1128 Drug shortages ... 301 Emergency health services ... 175, 200-201, 233-35, 236 Emergency health services wait times ... 64, 114, 266-67, 297 Forest Grove Care Centre roof collapse ... 672 Government accountability ... 958 Government policies ... 1043 Health and wellness follow-up questions ... 895-96 Health care services ... 144 Health care services decision-making ... 832 Health care services financial reporting ... 202, 264-65, 298-99, 511, 544 Health care services local decision-making ... 985 Health care services private delivery ... 178-79 Health care system ... 354 Health care system governance ... 144 Health data security ... 360-61 Health Quality Council review ... 318-21, 324, 353-54, 360, 424, 426-27, 446-47, 451, 510, 546, 760, 834, 957 Healthy food choices ... 452-53 Hospital in High Prairie ... 178 Hospital operating funds ... 46 Legal protection for physicians ... 632 Long-term care beds ... 47 Mental health services ... 722 Mental illness treatment services for children ... 571-72 Midwifery services ... 1044 Minister of Health and Wellness ... 512 MRI wait-list ... 68 Nondisclosure agreements with physicians ... 692, 695, 758, 1041-42 Patient advocacy by health professionals ... 475, 479-80, 508, 757-58, 809-10, 811, 815-16, 837, 1042 Patient advocacy by physicians ... 354-56, 389-90, 567, 631-32, 666-67, 687-89, 693, 722-23 Physician and family support program ... 151 Physician services in Fort McMurray ... 759 Physician support programs ... 301-2 Physicians' agreement in principle ... 389 Physicians' settlement agreements ... 391 Physicians' severance agreements ... 356 Psychiatric facilities safety ... 298 Public confidence in the health care system ... 689-90 Relief for emergency wait times ... 727-28 Seniors' pharmaceutical plan ... 762 Strathcona community hospital ... 838 Sturgeon general hospital ... 895, 897 Surgical wait times ... 667, 1125 Surgical wait times for children ... 1130-31 Syphilis outbreak ... 448 Villa Caritas geriatric mental health facility ... 235, 238, 263, 297-98
Organ and tissue transplantation
Shoulder cartilage transplants ... 114
Patient advocacy by health care professionals
Alberta Health Services code of conduct re speaking in public ... 324 General remarks ... 319-20, 336
Patient advocacy by physicians
Alberta Health Services bylaws ... 390, 424 Alberta Health Services bylaws (SP121/11: tabled) ... 397 Alberta Health Services/College of Physicians and Surgeons/AMA joint statement ... 424 Alberta Health Services March 16, 2011, open letter ... 424 Alberta Health Services policy ... 1042 Alberta Medical Association position ... 354, 426, 632 Allegations of intimidation ... 809-10 General remarks ... 354, 356, 474-75, 508 Legal protection for physicians ... 631-32 Letter re ... 354
Peace Country health region (former authority)
Physician's (M. Al-Ghamdi) statement of claim ... 757-58
Persons with developmental disabilities (PDD)
Building Better Bridges report on programs and services (2000) ... 816
Peter Lougheed Centre (Calgary general hospital)
Physician and family support program
Funding ... 151, 301-2 Parental leave ... 151 Supports for dealing with stress ... 151
Physicians
Departure, nondisclosure agreements on settlements ... 1041-42 Departure, settlement agreements re ... 356, 391
Physicians - Crowsnest Pass
Published remarks re health care system ... 631-32
Physicians - Rural areas
Recruitment and retention of ... 131, 660
Points of order
Allegations against a member ... 333 Clarification ... 517 Factual accuracy ... 731 Imputing motives ... 400-401 Parliamentary language ... 331, 332 Reflections on the Speaker ... 332 Relevance ... 1067
Primary health care networks
Funding ... 646 Impact on health care delivery ... 658-59 Provincial strategy ... 354
Privilege (current session applications)
Public Agencies Governance Act
Notification of ministers of adverse events, provisions for ... 297
Public Health Agency of Canada
Excerpt of cancer statistics report prepared by (SP191/11: tabled) ... 550
Public Health Appeal Board
Annual report 2010 (SP229/11: tabled) ... 606
Residential Tenancies Act
Recovery of land, provisions for ... 136
Rockyview general hospital
Rules of Court Statutes Amendment Act , 2011 (Bill 6)
Rural physician action plan
Seniors
Health care ... 650 Programs and services, health benefits ... 641, 762
Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre
Funding ... 647 Operating budget ... 46
South Calgary health campus
Cancellation of dedicated psychiatric wing ... 451 Capacity ... 203 Operational funding ... 46, 200, 203, 646
Speech from the Throne
Debate (comments and questions during) ... 139
Strathcona community hospital
Services scheduled for ... 838
Sturgeon general hospital
Substance abuse - Treatment
Suicide - Prevention
Auditor General recommendations ... 722
Supreme Court of Canada
Decision on long-term care charges ... 1128
Surgery - Bladder and uterine prolapse
Surgery - Cardiac surgery
Performance measures ... 654
Surgery - Cataract surgery
Increase in ... 68 Public vs. private delivery, cost-benefit analysis ... 179 Wait times ... 543, 667, 1125
Surgery - Joint surgery
Cost-benefit analysis ... 650 Cost-benefit analysis, public vs. private delivery of hip surgery ... 178 Cost of procedures, public vs. private service delivery (Written Question 17: accepted) ... 991 Knee surgery wait times ... 1125 Performance measures ... 654
Surgery - Thoracic surgery
Statistics ... 759 Wait times ... 759 Wait times, motion for a return re (Motion for a Return 11/11: defeated) ... 700
Syphilis
Infant deaths ... 354 Infant deaths, physician advocacy re ... 448 Provincial response to outbreak ... 642
Tuberculosis testing and treatment program (public health)
Departure of program director ... 355
United Nurses of Alberta
Remarks on investigation of health care system ... 389-90
Villa Caritas
Opening of ... 263 Patient safety ... 235, 297-98 Repurposing as psychogeriatric facility ... 238, 262-63 Suicide of resident ... 235, 263, 297-98 Suicide of resident, notification of minister re ... 297 Transfer of patients from Alberta Hospital Edmonton ... 238
Wages - Health sciences professionals
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 660 Percentage of health care budget ... 660
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