Health Care: Conversations

Alison Redford Dept: "This is the first point where we're going to say, 'Now let's take those health-care conversations and let's now think in specific communities about what that means, where the resources are, where the gaps are, and put family care clinics in place,"' Redford told a news conference Wednesday at an east Edmonton clinic, according to CBC. The clinics use teams of professionals, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists and dietitians to deliver family-focused care and divert the flow of patients at crowded emergency wards and alberta Premier Alison Redford and her MLAs plan to fan out across the province this summer to take the pulse of what citizens want to see in team-based health care. Her government is running three family-care clinics on a trial basis and has promised to set up 140 across Alberta. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.