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On Friday, Alberta Health Services said in a release that seven treatment spaces in Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre’s emergency department had closed temporarily due to staffing shortages. On the same evening, AHS tweeted that nine surgery unit beds at Sturgeon Community Hospital in St. Albert will be temporarily closed from Aug. 3-6 for the same reason.
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Orissa Shima, registered nurse and president of the United Nurses of Alberta Local 85, spoke at an NDP news conference on Monday morning to reiterate what health-care workers have been saying, that these bed closures are uncommon, although AHS says they happen every summer.
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Klimove was born in Edmonton on Sept. 27, 1923, and was raised in the city during the Great Depression. He grew up on 95 Street and was the oldest son of Sam and Minnie Klimove, who had emigrated from Ukraine. His parents owned a grocery store located in the Gibson Block building on Jasper Avenue. He attended Alex Taylor school where he first met Hollywood film director Arthur Hiller, a lifelong friend.
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Klimove was an active member of Edmonton’s Jewish community. In 2015, he was honoured by the Beth Israel Synagogue for his “exceptional contributions” to the congregation and “to the Edmonton Jewish community at large.”