Alberta Health Services
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Alberta Health Services (AHS) is an over-arching organization created in May 2008, whose stated purpose is to "improve access to health services and make the province’s health care system more responsive to the needs of patients, more efficient and more effective."
AHS has replaced the following organizations:
- the nine regional health authority boards
- Aspen Regional Health Authority
- Calgary Health Region
- Capital Health
- Chinook Health
- David Thompson Regional Health Authority
- East Central Health
- Northern Lights Health Region
- Palliser Health Region
- Peace Country Health Region
- Alberta Mental Health Board
- Alberta Cancer Board
- Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission
"Alberta Health Services (AHS) has one overriding purpose – building on the strengths of Alberta’s current health system and bringing about a seamless unified system organized around the needs of patients."
A new organization taking effect in June 2009 will reorganize the province into Zones. The Calgary Zone, for example, will include some sites and services formerly administered by the Calgary Health Region while other services have been reorganized on a provincial scale. Public information on these reorganizations is pending.
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