Allied Health Professions

Who We Are

Action Oriented Planning

Professional Practice, Education & Research

Career Pathways

Provincial Patient Services

The Allied Health Professions team collaborates with internal and external partners to provide allied health professionals the supports to practice to their full potential. This helps them contribute to better quality of life for Albertans.

Allied Health Disciplines

  • Audiologists
  • Kinesiologists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Physiotherapists
  • Psychologists
  • Recreation Therapists
  • Respiratory Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Speech-Language Pathologists
  • Spiritual Health Practitioners
  • Therapy Assistants

Action Oriented Planning Through Strategic Relationships

  • Facilitate provincial shared decision making, prioritization, and coordinated action together with zone operations including the Provincial Rehabilitation Strategic and Allied Health Workforce plans
  • Advance innovative service delivery models and digital solutions
  • Align practice, influence policy and address system-level barriers
  • Key liaison with regulators, educators, practice leaders, nonprofit groups

Optimize Practice & Outcomes

  • Define high value clinical activities & standardizing services
  • Determine appropriate skill mix, activity (visits per day) & workload guidelines
  • Provide population-based human resource modelling
  • Create system processes to demonstrate impact

Lead Professional Practice, Education & Research

  • Foster innovative student placements, mentoring & career pathways
  • Amplify the profile & voice of the professions through provincial councils & professional practice leadership
  • Advance evidence-informed education to promote professional development & best practice
  • Facilitate supported, practice-based research opportunities for teams of AHS clinicians

Design & Deliver Provincially Coordinated Patient Services

  • Provincial Integrated Respiratory Services (PRIS)
  • Provincial Virtual Rehabilitation:
    • Children's Rehabilitation
    • Pelvic Health Physiotherapy
    • Prehabilitation
    • Adult Rehabilitation