Alberta Health Minister on NICU Expansion, COVID-19 Response – March 4, 2021
Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro holds a news conference at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary to announce a $143-million investment through his government’s latest budget that will fund five new, priority health capital projects. The investment includes $23 million, plus a significant contribution from the Calgary Health Foundation, to expand the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Foothills hospital. The minister is joined by Jason Copping (MLA for Calgary-Varsity); Prasad Panda (infrastructure minister); Dr. Ted Braun (vice-president and medical director of clinical operations, Alberta Health Services); Mike Meldrum (president and CEO, Calgary Health Foundation); and Molly and Patrick Wilding (parents to newborn Gianna).
Memos obtained by CBC News detail the unsuccessful efforts from leadership at the Cross Cancer Institute to have Alberta Health Services make its health-care workers eligible for immunization during Phase 1.
CALGARY A 17-year-old girl is recovering at the Foothills Medical Centre following an incident at a ski hill in the southwest corner of Alberta. According to Castle Mountain Resort officials, ski patrol responded to the Far Chutes area of the hill late Wednesday morning following reports a teenager had been injured. Ski patrol administered first aid to the girl and EMS, as well as a STARS Air Ambulance crew, were deployed to the resort. The teen was airlifted to hospital in Calgary for treatment of a head injury, arriving shortly before 3:30 p.m. Castle Mountain Resort officials confirm the girl was wearing a helmet at the time and, as of Thursday morning, the injured guest remains under the care of medical professionals at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary is recovering with her family at this time.
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A man was airlifted to a Calgary hospital after surviving a long fall during an ice climbing accident in the Rockies Friday.
According to Rocky Mountain House RCMP, the 28-year-old man fell about 12 metres while ice climbing at the south end of Abraham Lake, approximately 210 kilometres west of Red Deer.
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RCMP responded to the scene around 2:30 p.m. after a member of the climbing party signalled for help using an SOS beacon, a radio transmitter meant for use by people in distress in remote areas. Local EMS, search and rescue, STARS air ambulance and Ahlstrom Helicopters also assisted in the rescue.
Everything you need to know about COVID-19 in Alberta on Thursday, Dec. 17
Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro announced plans Thursday to expand Alberta s rapid testing pilot project to long-term care facilities and rural hospitals, as the province says COVID has now killed more people in Alberta than influenza did over the last 10 years combined.
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A patient is attached to a ventilator in the COVID-19 intensive care unit of a hospital. COVID-19 has now killed more people in Alberta than influenza did over the last 10 years combined, 760 people since March, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta s chief medical officer of health warned Wednesday.(Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)