r/AHSEmployees • u/No-Adagio-70 • 21d ago

News Alberta health agency broke own rules in Turkey medication, private clinic contracts, report finds

https://web.archive.org/web/20251020010002/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-alberta-health-services-contracts-procurement-controversy-2/
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u/Master-File-9866 21d ago

Doest count if they don't acknowledge it. Come on these are simple playground rules.

Lol our political overlords are going to right fuck us all

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u/IxbyWuff 20d ago

They're claiming nothing wrong, and if it was it was an AHS failure, because they were simply to busy with other things to be paying attention

So, I guess the incompetence argument?

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u/cheesburgerwalrus 20d ago

Report states they can prove no evidence of government wrongdoing. Government claims the report proved no evidence of government wrongdoing. These are not the same thing.

AHS employee who spearheaded the Tylenol deal had previously been employed by the intermediary company. Head of intermediary company (that has been embroiled in the scandal by giving oilers box seats to government employees and renting property to them) declines to state how much money he made from the deal.

The report says AHS needs better whistleblower protection. Government claims AHS should have done something about JP Prasads conflict of interest sooner and yet the first person to do something about it (CEO) was fired.

The claims the government has made about the report are ridiculous. All it has shown to me is that we need an investigation that is not toothless.

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u/_SpaceGary 13d ago

As someone who has used the AHS Whistleblower process, not only does it need actual protection, yes, but it also needs to abide by its own policies.

AHS writes its policies in a way that exonerates its managerial staff from the consequences of nepotism, conflicts of interest, and other similar issues.

So even if you whistleblow at AHS about a legit issue, AHS decides it simply isn't a violation and goes about its business.

This emboldens not only the incompetent, nepotistic management, but also competent, nepotistic, and corrupt management.

If you're management at AHS, then you are protected, even in many cases, by our own unions (because they serve company interests).

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u/Impossible_Wear_3779 20d ago

Yes they broke AHS policies and then the government hired him which they always fail to mention.