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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2h

Alberta government set to receive report into health contract scandal https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/alberta-government-set-to-receive-report-into-health-contract-scandal/article_56809c38-6444-5f0a-b3d9-300f0a236db9.html

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith holds a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025.

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 2h

Been trying!

People just have no clue how bad our HC system has degraded until they desperately need it.

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Hazel B. | Meme Resister | Forever Canadian @hab3261.bsky.social · 3h

This 👇 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 #ableg #abpoli

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3h

AB is radioactive toxic wasteland for good HC recruitment
So many view working in AB HC would be a CAREER KILLER...

Current AB Job Environment: "Come, endless political interferrance, quickly get blamed for all that is wrong, get fired, and never work in AB again!"
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 2h

Correct.
Recall many were handpicked by this Premier and her office even.
“AHS is evil” ideology can only go so far…
No other province has seen this kind of draconian disruption.

It’s truly non-functional.

And forget about recruiting into our Province… it’s a joke

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3h

AB is radioactive toxic wasteland for good HC recruitment
So many view working in AB HC would be a CAREER KILLER...

Current AB Job Environment: "Come, endless political interferrance, quickly get blamed for all that is wrong, get fired, and never work in AB again!"
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3h

As one key example: we don't even have a Board to oversee that the govt policy get's operationalized. Basically govt says "do X", and then changes to "do Y", and then blames the hospital orgs for poor outcomes. And fires more HC leaders...
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3h

A quick list of HC leaders the Premier has terminated (recall she personally said she'd ensure the firings occurred):
This isn't complete...
But keep in mind that many of these positions have not been filled! Many have un/poorly qualified acting leads (if filled at all)...
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 18h

Fragmenting the system into MANY Hosp operators will only make workforce planning worse, but that's the Premier's plan... 100s of hospital owners competing WITHIN AB for the same staff! Make that make sense!

meanwhile bad outcomes will continue:
buff.ly/7u4WvSz

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 18h

Hey AB... re Rural ED closures: the govt will try to pretend it is all "AHS's fault"... but Covenant Health has the same issues. But for some reason that Premier has a hate on ONLY for AHS...

buff.ly/ZADmak7

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 23h

Let’s have a frank conversation about Health in our community.

This is NOT about right or left wing politics… it’s about the right care at the right time.

Medicine Hat deserves a HC system that works for them.

Spread the word and let’s have an honest discussion!

Friends of Medicare @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social · 1d

We'll be in Medicine Hat on Nov. 4 to join your hometown Dr, @pfparks.bsky.social, for a townhall on what Albertans are dealing with in our health care.

Join us for a real talk about solutions we urgently need to better our lives & our health!

➕Info & RSVP: friendsofmedicare.org/healthcareme...

An urgent conversation: Public Health Care in Medicine Hat

Join @friendsofmedicare and Dr. Paul Parks for an urgent conversation on Public Health Care in Medicine Hat November 4!

friendsofmedicare.org

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 1d

Working in the ED over the weekend, but wanted to take a moment to say I'm thankful to live in Canada where we still strive to try to provide universal health care!

That we haven't abandoned it to a system where only the rich get optimal care

Sharing a poem thankful reflection

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JKW @jkwent.bsky.social · 2d

Obvious risk for pts, moral distress for EMS and nursing staff who are still onsite, and likely the beginning of the end for many of these communities. Very few people will tolerate zero access to ED and will move to a town with more stable health services

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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Shane🇨🇦 @shane555.bsky.social · 3d

#cdnhealth systems are in distress.
Health workers are being overworked, overwhelmed and burning out.
Patients are suffering avoidable harm.
@mark-carney.bsky.social national commission won’t solve this ⤵️

We need a citizen driven mandate for changes. Fund a National Citizens Assembly please.

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

- EMS calls hospital staff for help - crew in significant distress because there is nowhere to take this patient
- Local nursing staff tries calling physicians in the community
- One provider is 25 minutes away
- Resuscitation terminated pre-hospital - "no receiving site"
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susanjeanreid.bsky.social @susanjeanreid.bsky.social · 3d

Why do closures of EDs & surgical & obstetric units not provoke outcry in rural Alberta?
I used to train rural anesthesia docs who provided excellent service to their communities such as Edson, Ponoka, Westlock
Drumheller, Slave Lake etc. Not now.
Why does this not matter to rural Albertans?

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🇨🇦 Ken Robinson: Proud/ NASTY CANADIAN in AB 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @kprobinson0155.bsky.social · 3d

Important post from Dr. Parks.

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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Dr. Andy Holt @drandyholt.bsky.social · 3d

Dear rural Albertans,
Please read this thread. 👇🏻

And then ask yourself why you keep voting for this.

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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IceColonel @icecolonel.bsky.social · 3d

It really isn't hyperbole to say that the Alberta government's choices are killing people. Timely treatment can be a life or death difference. If the nearest EDs are closed, or there's a 7+ hour wait time at an urban hospital because rural folks have to go there, it's the same. ⬇️ Access, ⬆️ fatality%

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 3d

Read this 🧵 last night after dropping hubs off @ #YYC ER; struggling to breathe, in pain, like someone was sitting on his chest.

Diagnosis: pericarditis.

Total time @ hospital: 11 hours.

Tell me again @daniellesmithab.bsky.social how you’ll fix #AbHealth in 90 days.

#AbLeg #AbPoli

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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NB COVID info @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social · 3d

This is terrifying and so wrong. I lived in some of these areas and worked in a dangerous enough industry where access to an ED was important. Took more than one coworker to one of these EDs due to workplace injuries.

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

Think of the impact this would have on the pt's family, wondering if an open local ED could have made a difference?

We understand that we cannot have an ED in every town, but closures are regularly occurring in places like: Hinton, Edson, Lac La Biche, Oyen... and many more
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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 3d

This thread needs to be front-page news all across #Alberta.

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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Brent Wittmeier @wittmeier.bsky.social · 3d

Alberta used to have the best services in Canada. On health and education, arguably the two main roles for a provincial government, the UCP is failing Albertans.

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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The French Wong @thefrenchwong.bsky.social · 3d

In today’s episode of “It Didn’t Have To Be This Way, #Alberta Edition”…

#AbHealth #AbLeg #AbPoli #CrisisCapitalism #FireTheUCP

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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Hazel B. | Meme Resister | Forever Canadian @hab3261.bsky.social · 3d

My heart is with the family and the EMS crew, who faced unimaginable moral distress due to systemic failure. Unplanned closures are literally killing people. #RuralHealthCrisis #ABleg #ABpoli

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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Rhonda 🩵🦋 @rhondasrealm.bsky.social · 3d

This doesn’t have to be this way!

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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Canadian Homebody @canadianhomebody.bsky.social · 3d

And yet people in Rural Alberta continue to vote for this party en masse.

Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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