Alberta Health Minister LaGrange says hospital transfer plan isn’t ‘hard and fast’
Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange says a plan to offload underperforming hospitals from Alberta Health Services to third-party operators is still up for discussion.
LaGrange says the province won’t transfer hospital operations so long as Alberta Health Services can provide reliable, quality health care.
“There’s nothing hard and fast,” LaGrange said Tuesday on the Shaye Ganam show on Corus radio in her first media comments on the plan since it was reported last week.
“They’re coming back to me with a strategy on how they can actually do that, and the discussion is also around — if you are unable to do that, and if you are unable to provide the service that Albertans expect, particularly in our rural locations, do we need to look at another service provider?”