Dr. Swann Announces Emergency Plan for the Emergency Room
November 26 2010
Calgary – Official Opposition Leader David Swann is launching his plan to help Alberta weather the emergency room overcrowding crisis.
Called Pulling Through, Swann’s seven-step plan includes:
· The creation of an emergency task force of top-tier health care professionals to get people moving through emergency rooms more quickly
· The mobilization of all available health care professionals to help cope with the immediate ER crisis until long-term measures can take effect
· A campaign to help Albertans navigate the health care system more effectively
· The immediate creation of alternative long-term care settings
· Extended hours for diagnostic testing
· Opening mothballed acute care beds
Planning for the future – specifically, an orderly transition from the top-down Alberta Health Services model to more local control of health care delivery
Details of the plan can be found here
