September 12, 2025
Amazing Together Every Day
Alberta Health Services (AHS) recognizes our work takes place on historical and contemporary Indigenous lands, including the territories of Treaty 6, Treaty 7 and Treaty 8, and the homeland of the Métis Nation of Alberta and eight Métis Settlements. AHS also acknowledges the many Indigenous communities that have been forged in urban centres across Alberta.
September 12, 2025
New health corporations start operations
As of Sept. 1, Cancer Care Alberta, Give Life Alberta and the Emergency Health Services provincial health corporations are fully operational, marking a significant milestone in the province’s healthcare refocus initiative. Regulatory changes made in the spring established the new corporations as legal entities. These changes enabled cancer care, organ and tissue donation and transplantation, and emergency health services to transition from Alberta Health Services to Acute Care Alberta, ensuring these specialized services have a dedicated focus in the new healthcare system.
Cancer Care Alberta is responsible for delivering cancer treatment and services across the province, overseeing workforce planning, capital investments, operational funding and a dedicated complaints process. Give Life Alberta manages all organ and tissue donation and transplantation services, streamlining processes and advancing a unified vision for life-saving care. The Emergency Health Services provincial health corporation oversees all aspects of emergency health services, including response times, workforce recruitment and retention, and coordination of critical services. (more...)
Group Coaching Program launches in November
Join a supportive group of six led by a professional internal coach. The Group Coaching Program offers a collaborative and confidential experience that brings together leaders across the healthcare system with shared or complementary goals.
Focusing on dialogue, this six-month program (November 2025 to April 2026) aims to enhance our leaders' competencies and confidence by empowering them to identify and work toward their goals. Participants can choose from Emerging, Foundational or Advanced leadership groups or a themed topic group.
Seats are limited. Applications are open Sept. 22 through Oct. 3. Email coaching@ahs.ca to apply. Explore coaching services or join our coaching bench.
Documents go digital to phone with launch of Alberta Wallet
Leading the way in Canada, the Mobile Health Card will be the first document available for Albertans to add to the Alberta Wallet. This is part of the province’s health card modernization initiative and commitment to delivering better, faster and smarter services.
With security and privacy at the core, the Alberta Wallet and Mobile Health Card are protected by strong encryptions, ensuring Albertans’ personal information stays private and accessible only to them. Albertans will also be in control of their personal information as nothing is shared with third parties without their consent. (more...)
Review Falls Risk Management for Patients Policy
The Falls Risk Management for Patients Policy has been revised to enhance clarity, accountability and align with quality and safety standards, including Accreditation Canada’s updated Required Organizational Practice (ROP).
Key updates include:
Visit Preventing Falls & Reducing Injuries from Falls to learn more.
Review revised Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Policy Suite
The revised Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Policy and new Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prophylaxis: Acute Adult Procedure are now in effect. VTE is associated with increased patient mortality and is one of the most common preventable causes of hospital death. It’s important to follow the steps in the policy and procedure when it comes to minimizing the risk of VTE.
Key updates include:
Visit Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prophylaxis to learn more.
Review new Optimizing Skin Integrity Policy
The new Optimizing Skin Integrity Policy provides guidance for screening, assessment, interventions, documentation, reporting, continuous learning and quality improvement for patients’ skin integrity.
This policy focuses on:
To learn more about this policy, visit Pressure Injury Prevention/Optimizing Skin Integrity.
Help unattached patients get follow-up care after hospital discharge
Wondering how you can help patients who do not have a family doctor? Join the next H2H2H Transitions in Care Talk on supporting safe follow-up care for unattached patients. It’s presented by Primary Care Alberta and hosted by Alberta Medical Association / Accelerating Change Transformation Team on Sept. 23 (noon to 1 p.m.).
In this session, you’ll learn about local approaches from across the province that support timely follow-up care for unattached patients following hospital discharge. Hear successes and challenges from the Sherwood Park Primary Care Network Hospital Transition Clinic, the Lethbridge Unattached Clinic, and the Zone Business Unit, Calgary and Area Primary Care Networks. Register now.
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Artwork explores Seven Sacred Teachings of Indigenous culture
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Alberta celebrates new milestone for rural access to healthcare
Northwestern Polytechnic in Grande Prairie welcomes first-year medical students. (more...)
