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Medicine Care Alberta (MCA) is a provincial program within Acute Care Alberta (ACA) that works closely with provincial health corporations (PHCs), provincial health agencies (PHAs), service providers, patients and other partners to guide and oversee efforts aimed at improving access to high quality services, reducing wait times and supporting seamless patient transitions across the acute care continuum and beyond.
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MCA provides governance and coordination across six key clinical service areas by uniting specialized care teams. This collaborative approach enables us to pursue shared goals and address complex, multidisciplinary challenges more effectively.
Note: Medicine services are defined as acute and specialized care in inpatient and outpatient hospital settings. Other medicine clinical specialties or initiatives may be supported on a case-by-case basis, following an impact and feasibility assessment.
Through innovative, evidence based and collaborative initiatives, MCA supports ACA’s mission by improving patient flow, optimizing medicine bed utilization, reducing hospital length of stay and strengthening access to specialty care. Over the next three years this work will be advanced through targeted efforts in three areas of focus as outlined below.
The former Medicine Strategic Clinical Network was made up of the following three sections:
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