Doctor sees limited changes in Alberta Third Way health plan
Taber physician Wes Steed says Alberta health care reform may not bring drastic shifts. Private payments for select insured services could exist while doctors work in public and for profit systems. Rural hospitals may become multidisciplinary centres, but services aim to stay timely and appropriate.
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Wes Steed
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Health region backs reforms as partial positive move
Leaders in Alberta's health regions praise the Third Way reform concept while warning private work may draw doctors from the public system. They urge regional control over services and cite the Tabor Health Care Project and the Alberta Bone and Joint Institute as improvements to wait times and sustainability.
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Alliance
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Tabor
Alberta Bone and Joint Institute
Calgary
Pam Whitnack
Chinook
Alberta
Nurse practitioners expand Taber clinic care goals
Wedel notes two nurse practitioners including Nicole Kinniburgh will help meet local CPCN goals. Since the asthma education program started at Taber Medical Centre, emergency room visits for uncontrolled asthma dropped by 61 percent. The project aims to identify family doctors, cut care costs by yearly physicals, reduce appointment delays, and keep patients from needing ER or walk-in visits. Taber reports fewer hospital admissions and less use of lab and X ray services.
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Wedel
Nicole Kinniburgh
Mary Nugent
Taber Medical Centre
CPCN
World Day of Prayer brings churches together in Tabor
Volunteers run a soup kitchen and a new stove funded by Malan’s daughter. Peggy Westerhoud notes the event highlights poverty and the AIDS pandemic’s reach across life, with St Augustine’s St Theodore’s LDS wards and Church of Christ among participating churches.
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Women’s Group
Tabor
St. Augustine’s Catholic Church
St. Theodore’s Anglican Church
Church of Latter Day Saints
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