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Alberta Health Services
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is the single health authority for the Canadian province of Alberta and the largest integrated provincial health care system in Canada. Headquartered in Edmonton, AHS delivers medical care on behalf of the Government of Alberta's Ministry of Health. It operates over 1000 facilities throughout the province, including hospitals, clinics, continuing care facilities, mental health facilities and community health sites, that provide a variety of programs and services. AHS is the largest employer in the province of Alberta. As of April 2024, AHS served almost 5 million Albertans with a staff of 125,000 staff and 11,600 physicians, and an annual budget of approximately $18 billion. Deputy Minister of Health Andre Tremblay is the interim President and CEO as well as Official Administrator. The Official Administrator is accountable to the Minister of Health and the Premier.
In 2024 Alberta Health Services began transitioning to four separate agencies, or "health pillars." This process is expected to be complete by the autumn of 2025.
Alberta Health Services reports to Minister of Health Adriana LaGrange with Deputy Minister of Health Andre Tremblay serving as Official Administrator and interim President and CEO as of February 2025. AHS's Board of Directors was dissolved in January 2025 as part of the transition to four separate agencies.
According to the AHS 2022 annual report, AHS' workforce includes over 113,000 employees, 9,500 physicians, 170 midwives and 9,700 volunteers. AHS serves 4.6 million people who reside in Alberta.
From 1992 to 2000, Alberta's Conservative Premier Ralph Klein oversaw deep cuts to provincial health as part of his focus on eliminating Alberta's deficit. Klein replaced hundreds of local boards of directors of hospitals, long-term care and public health services, with 17 health authorities based on geographic regions. He also created provincial health authorities for cancer, mental health and addiction services. Per capita spending on health was cut from CA $1,393 in 1992 to $1,156 in 1995. At the same time, Klein eliminated or reduced hours for 14,753 positions in health care. Three downtown hospitals were closed by the Calgary Regional Health Authority—one of the hospitals was leased to an American for-profit health group" and the old "Calgary General Hospital was blown up in October 1998". This left many Calgarians "without access to emergency care in the downtown core." The "controlled implosion of Calgary General Hospital"—the Big Bang—was described as the "dawn of a regionalized, integrated healthcare system in Alberta."
Alberta Health Services, which was established on May 15, 2008, is a quasi-independent agency of the Alberta government with a mandate of public health services throughout the province under the Ministry of Health.
Ed Stelmach, who served as Alberta's premier from December 2006 to October 2011, as leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, introduced major reforms to Alberta's health-care system. On May 15, 2008, Health Minister Ron Liepert announced that as of April 1, 2009, one provincial governance board—the Alberta Health Services Board—would consolidate the "$13-billion-a-year system into one public corporation", replacing Alberta's nine regional health authority boards— Aspen Health Region, Calgary Health Region, Capital Health Region, Chinook Health Region, David Thompson Health Region, East Central Health Region, Northern Lights Health Region, Palliser Health Region, and Peace Country Health Region.
On April 1, 2009, the Health Governance Transition Amendment Act dissolved the Alberta Mental Health Board, the Alberta Cancer Board and the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission, and completed the transition to Alberta Health Services (AHS). Alberta Health Services funding of gender-affirming care for transgender people was also delisted in 2009. It was restored in 2010 after resistance from psychiatrist Lorne Warneke and other advocates.
Alberta Health Services
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is the single health authority for the Canadian province of Alberta and the largest integrated provincial health care system in Canada. Headquartered in Edmonton, AHS delivers medical care on behalf of the Government of Alberta's Ministry of Health. It operates over 1000 facilities throughout the province, including hospitals, clinics, continuing care facilities, mental health facilities and community health sites, that provide a variety of programs and services. AHS is the largest employer in the province of Alberta. As of April 2024, AHS served almost 5 million Albertans with a staff of 125,000 staff and 11,600 physicians, and an annual budget of approximately $18 billion. Deputy Minister of Health Andre Tremblay is the interim President and CEO as well as Official Administrator. The Official Administrator is accountable to the Minister of Health and the Premier.
In 2024 Alberta Health Services began transitioning to four separate agencies, or "health pillars." This process is expected to be complete by the autumn of 2025.
Alberta Health Services reports to Minister of Health Adriana LaGrange with Deputy Minister of Health Andre Tremblay serving as Official Administrator and interim President and CEO as of February 2025. AHS's Board of Directors was dissolved in January 2025 as part of the transition to four separate agencies.
According to the AHS 2022 annual report, AHS' workforce includes over 113,000 employees, 9,500 physicians, 170 midwives and 9,700 volunteers. AHS serves 4.6 million people who reside in Alberta.
From 1992 to 2000, Alberta's Conservative Premier Ralph Klein oversaw deep cuts to provincial health as part of his focus on eliminating Alberta's deficit. Klein replaced hundreds of local boards of directors of hospitals, long-term care and public health services, with 17 health authorities based on geographic regions. He also created provincial health authorities for cancer, mental health and addiction services. Per capita spending on health was cut from CA $1,393 in 1992 to $1,156 in 1995. At the same time, Klein eliminated or reduced hours for 14,753 positions in health care. Three downtown hospitals were closed by the Calgary Regional Health Authority—one of the hospitals was leased to an American for-profit health group" and the old "Calgary General Hospital was blown up in October 1998". This left many Calgarians "without access to emergency care in the downtown core." The "controlled implosion of Calgary General Hospital"—the Big Bang—was described as the "dawn of a regionalized, integrated healthcare system in Alberta."
Alberta Health Services, which was established on May 15, 2008, is a quasi-independent agency of the Alberta government with a mandate of public health services throughout the province under the Ministry of Health.
Ed Stelmach, who served as Alberta's premier from December 2006 to October 2011, as leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, introduced major reforms to Alberta's health-care system. On May 15, 2008, Health Minister Ron Liepert announced that as of April 1, 2009, one provincial governance board—the Alberta Health Services Board—would consolidate the "$13-billion-a-year system into one public corporation", replacing Alberta's nine regional health authority boards— Aspen Health Region, Calgary Health Region, Capital Health Region, Chinook Health Region, David Thompson Health Region, East Central Health Region, Northern Lights Health Region, Palliser Health Region, and Peace Country Health Region.
On April 1, 2009, the Health Governance Transition Amendment Act dissolved the Alberta Mental Health Board, the Alberta Cancer Board and the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission, and completed the transition to Alberta Health Services (AHS). Alberta Health Services funding of gender-affirming care for transgender people was also delisted in 2009. It was restored in 2010 after resistance from psychiatrist Lorne Warneke and other advocates.