Alberta Budget 2023: Alberta boosts health funding by nearly $1 billion

Finance Minister Travis Toews said the budget gives health officials and front-line workers “the funds they need to improve and transform the system.”“We need to ensure that we’re funding health adequately. We also need to ensure that we’re continuing to bring fiscal discipline to the province.”Article content

There’s also $321 million on the books for the Red Deer Regional Hospital redevelopment over the next three years. The Calgary Cancer Centre, which has received significant funding in recent years, is expected to be completed and open in 2024, and Edmonton’s Misericordia Community Hospital modernization project wraps up this year.

Dr. John Cowell, Health Minister Jason Copping and Premier Danielle Smith provided updates on the work underway to reduce wait times and improve patient care in Alberta during a press conference at the McDougall Centre in Calgary on Monday, February 27, 2023.The budget also comes a day after Alberta Health Services official administrator Dr.

The 2023 budget calls for continuing support for that effort, with $150 million over three years for emergency medical services and $120 million in new funding for projects to boost surgical capacity in more than a dozen Alberta communities.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

A boom and bust budget, give with one hand and take with the other.

But which parts get what money and what hoops do they have to jump through to get it

Wow! Thank you Oil and Cash

What is the Alberta Fubd item? Who decides to spend it and in what ? 1.4 Billion is a lot of money. Are we turning into Venezuela where petrodollars disappear in Panama accounts?

Who's going to operate the new ambulances? What about all the other Healthcare professionals and technologists?

Yep. And when oil drops in 8 months it will be cut cut cut cut layoffs,,, will we ever get a lougheed back, who could think past today?

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