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Province allocates AHS $550 million funding increase Date: April 07, 2009 EDMONTON, AB - Today's provincial budget allocated Alberta Health Services a $550 million funding increase for the 2009/10 fiscal year. This includes a general base operating increase of six per cent plus an additional increase of $122 million as a result of taking over responsibility for ground emergency medical services, for a total 7.7 per cent operating increase. Total operating funding for Alberta Health Services will be approximately $7.7 billion for the current fiscal year (April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010). AHS is now awaiting a comprehensive budget briefing from the Department of Health and Wellness and will then assess the budget and consider its implications in detail before commenting further. Following this briefing, Alberta Health Services' 2009/10 proposed allocated budget will be reviewed by the Board's Audit and Finance Committee and at board meetings in Grande Prairie on May 28, 2009. At its March 25th meeting, the AHS Board approved an interim expenditure plan allowing AHS to spend for the next three months (April - June) at the same rate as the last three months of fiscal 2008/09 (January - March). "It's important that AHS deliver on our commitments and this interim expenditure plan allows us to do just that as we work through the process of determining how today's provincial funding announcement will be allocated throughout the organization," said Dr. Stephen Duckett, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Over the last five years, health care spending in Alberta has increased by an average of 10 per cent annually. Today's announcement underscores the fact that we can't afford to pretend it's going to be business as usual," said Dr. Duckett. "We have a responsibility to manage within our resources by developing a financial plan that balances increased demand for patient care with available resources allocated by government. It's up to us to make the choices and set the priorities for our spending." Alberta Health Services is the provincial health authority responsible for planning and delivering health supports and services for more than 3.5 million adults and children living in Alberta. Its mission is to provide a patient-focused health system that is accessible and sustainable for all Albertans.

If you click on the link at the bottom of this post from AHS it takes you to another site thats states that this is a Suburban Rural Operations. Meaning this is a posting for outside the Edmonton city or Metro Area. So I believe this will be for Parklands old area and then start adding in Medicares areas

When the province takes control on April 1, each city, town or what ever has what ever ambulance they have and they tell them how many of them are staffed. Well those ambulances now have to be staff at all times and are under the control of the province, so if that ambulance is needed else where then they will move it to cover the area. This is a problem for fire services as most will have there cross trained members doing dual jobs they are there to work fire and ambulance. So if you pull one of the fire bases ambulances out of town to cover another town then they are short 2 firefighters. So the province told the intergrated services that they needed to ask their paramedics/emts do they want to be ems or fire. So alot of the guys are goin fire

Well IHAS's contract was turned down by AHS(yes i know they don't exist till April 1) because they didnt like the new wages that were offered to the employees. Our union was getting wages inline with other services in the area. AHS said if IHAS employees exept the contract that it will not be good for us as employees in the future because they will lay us all off and we would have to go through a hiring process with the province. So the province is already stepping on what unions can negotiate with their members in good faith.

To teach EMT's in the province you have to be on ACP's approved program list.

If you look closer CCEMS is registered, it is not accredited. They have their site visit in December, which means it still has more hoops to jump through. Just because there name is on the CMA list doesn't mean that they are accredited. All EMT courses in Alberta have to be going through the CMA process to keep teaching

If you can stay awake and understand it. Transition book for EMS http://www.health.alberta.ca/public/EHS_EM...Handbook-08.pdf

Here in Alberta we are all PCP's now. We became that when we took our GAP training. On top of that schools have been teaching to the CMA standard for years now with the added Alberta stuff. So here in Alberta if you are hired as an EMT-A then they are hiring you as a PCP. But still here in Alberta just because you are hired as a PCP it doesnt mean that you get to use those skills right away. With some services you have to pass their exams to do the skills. Are you in Alberta? If you are what does ACP stand for in Alberta?? Advance Care Paramedic or does it stand for Alberta College of Paramedics?? So as i see it the College needs to eather change its name or stick with the titles it has

Make sure you have some, if not alot of ALS experience. So I would say be working full time with an ALS service. If you can't then make friends with some paramedics that you can go to if you have questions that need to be answered right away. You have to remember this is a distance learning so alot of time studying and learning on your own without alot of pointers day to day. You must be self motivated and make sure you have a schedule for yourself and to stick to it. Its a good program if your looking for a way of going to school and being able to pay your bills at the sametime. I'm sure theres people that will tell you different but what ditance program you pick is up to you.

Well I would presume that they thought the scene was safe cause the cops were there. So I would ask who was on scene first? How did the call come in? Did the call come in as my friend has fallen and can't get up? And since this was dealing with RCMP how big is the community?? Was it a single officer responce or was there more then one on scene? There is to many questions to answer and only the police and EMS personal can answer what was going on that day. SO lets just remember to be careful and remember that any scene can turn dangerous

ACP has nothing to do with it. Alberta Health has nothing to do with it cause MTC's are not aload to transport with out a reg. Number on the unit

I thnk thats the right site. You just need to find the list thats states what level training you need for how many employees. Then somewhere on that list it should tell you what kind of first aid kit you need for that work site. As for a strict list like they have for ambulances I'm not sure they actually have that. But I've know to be wrong once or twice in my life. hahaha Well Merry Christmas and hope your not stuck out on a lease researching this

So who's titles do we want to use?? You don't like the EMT title and want to use PCP, ACP, CCP where does ICP fit into these titles? CMA I believe uses the three above (PCP,ACP,CCP). So which province or regulation group should we follow. Oh and one other thing, if we switch titles what does ACP stand for in the province of Alberta? Adavance Care Paramedic or does it stand for Alberta College of Paramedics? As posted in above post "I just wrote my ACP exam" so does he mean his Advanced Paramedic Exam or does he mean his Alberta College of Paramedics exam. Oh and yes I do know what he means

http://www.collegeofparamedics.org/acp_dow...cy/aocp_EMT.pdf This is what an EMT/PCP needs to know to work in Alberta. I'm presuming you have the CMA standards cause you are training to be an ICP. (ICP-Not sure what that is, but I could guess) All schools are teaching to the CMA level here in Alberta and should be going through the process if they haven' already gotten their acceditation As for protocols you would have to go to the individual services cause each service has a medical director that approves them

Call the downtown YMCA and they can give you a run down of the FCA. Theres an obstical course, stretcher carry and a sorenson test