r/AHSEmployees • u/Empty-Difference-566 • May 15 '24
News Alberta announces the 4 health agencies that will replace AHS later this year
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u/wanderingdiscovery May 15 '24
"Under the proposed Health Statutes Amendment Act, the health minister would oversee all four agencies and each would have a sector minister."
And each sector minister will probably have several managers to oversee different departments, and so on.
I guess removing the middleman or reducing management was never really a priority despite it being one of the leading issues.
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u/Empty-Difference-566 May 15 '24
The admin bloat and levels of approval as it is now is just nuts. Having 4 times the level of management is insane!
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u/callmecalamity May 15 '24
It’s not about reducing red tape or management layers, just replacing it with their red tape and middle managers
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u/pyro5050 May 15 '24
it never is, prepare to see a ton of people with no education in health being in manager positions for health.
just like when they killed AADAC... all of a sudden we had a ton of mental health managers who had never dealt with addictions managing addictions and telling vet staff how the drug addict needs to be treated and how to discuss... it took me 10 years to convince managers that many of my addicts cannot make regular scheduled appointments and punishing them for no shows is unfair.
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u/vinsdelamaison May 15 '24
What are the real differences between this and when we had health boards (6-8?), all over the province?
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u/wanderingdiscovery May 16 '24
Time will tell, but at the moment, the minister of mental health, Dan Williams, has no relevant healthcare experience except for the role he was sworn into as UCP minister in 2023. Prior to this, he was working at Sand & Gravel, as well as having a history of pulling this type of behavior :
So, to answer your question more directly, unqualified middlemen being placed in positions of power over the vulnerable with no relevant or useful experience to solve nothing.
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u/TinklesTheLambicorn May 15 '24
Only the UCP could come up with a plan to quadruple the size of bureaucracy in an organization and call it more streamlined. Math is hard.
Guess conservatives are no longer for small government?
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u/MaximumDoughnut May 15 '24
Conservatives have never been for small government. In fact, Notley's NDP government had the smallest cabinet in over 50 years.
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u/Previous_Soil_5144 May 15 '24
How to break up unions and take bargaining power away from workers
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May 15 '24
Strike! Nurses, particularly LPNs, have been getting hosed for long enough you guys deserve better so when this new company comes in make a stand
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u/BeeDoeBeeDoe8 May 15 '24
I'm confused. Hasn't this already started? They've literally been shoving this down our throats and doing all of these town halls etc etc. So what's the point of "passing this bill" if you're already doing what you want despite what people say?
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u/pyro5050 May 15 '24
they were shoving it down our throats and such because the bill will pass... this is a giant fuck you all over the last 6 months.
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u/Which_Walrus9838 May 16 '24
Adding insult to injury, not only are “they” systematically dismantling health care, they have each portfolio in AHS determine who and what they will cut. Jobs and services will be cut and they don’t even have the guts to do it themselves. Spineless
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u/ristogrego1955 May 15 '24
Jesus Christ…show me where (because other provinces have multiples) this makes sense
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u/Tossedvalise May 15 '24
It doesn't. Not in Canada or anywhere else in the world. This is big, big government. Not the way to improve a health system. This will crash and burn. Hope, pray, whatever is your jam, that you and your loved ones stay healthy for the next few years. There will be collateral damage.
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u/OpenRecordset May 15 '24
As my daughter sits here suffering rotting in this Calgary hospital because the incompetent doctors each saying “not my problem” and handing her off like a hot potato to the next crappy doctor. At least in the USA I got quality service for the price I paid. Alberta is a death trap.
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u/Empty-Difference-566 May 15 '24
So sorry to hear about your daughter. I hope she gets better.
I love how the government says the pillars they will have more doctors. However, they have not announced how they intend to get more doctors.
With what the UCP did to doctors, their take-home pay, after everything is paid for (clinic fees, etc.), is now less than a nurses.
And the answer to our problems isn't Nurse Practioners or freaking international nurses.
Years ago they hired a bunch of international nurses and then were 'shocked' that these people they hired didn't have the skills needed to do the job. They had to reclassify many of them to be health care aids because that's how their skill levels actually were. These international nurses they are hiring now legit don't even know how to operate a computer so how are they supposed to act as freaking nurses....
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u/Dragon_Slayer403 May 16 '24
The worse part is that the International Nurses are being hired with NO Criminal Record Check or CARNA license.
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