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At a Friday news conference, Deb Gordon, the provincial health authority’s vice president and chief operating officer, said temporary bed closures are not uncommon for AHS or any other health system across Canada, and that one closure has only a “limited impact” on patients because there are enough beds to address the need.
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According to AHS, 125 acute care beds are currently closed across the province approximately 1.5 per cent of the province’s beds.
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EDMONTON The minister of health in Alberta says the NDP is “lying” and exaggerating claims about shortages in health-care staff in the province leading to temporary service level reductions. Tyler Shandro was asked by reporters about staffing shortages at health-care facilities across the province at a media availability Monday. Multiple hospitals across the province have faced bed closures and staff shortages. Earlier this month the Royal Alexandra hospital – the largest in Edmonton – closed six beds in their emergency room. On Friday, another 12 beds were closed at that facility until receiving morning staff relief. Additionally, Fort Vermillion’s St. Theresa General Hospital emergency department announced on Friday that it would have no overnight physician coverage temporarily until the end of the month.
EDMONTON The Grey Nuns Hospital in Edmonton is now the latest in a string of health care facilities in Alberta facing bed closures or service reductions. In an internal letter from Covenant Health that CTV News Edmonton obtained, the hospital operator said “unforeseen medical leaves of several staff in rapid succession” were to blame for a lack of endoscopy coverage at the hospital. Starting Sunday, there would be no weekday nursing coverage from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. and no weekend nursing coverage from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. in the endoscopy unit. There would be staff on site to triage or direct patients to other facilities in the Edmonton health zone.