Premier Danielle Smith reveals plans to transfer some Alberta hospitals away from AHS

At a UCP town hall event in Drayton Valley, Premier Danielle Smith revealed the next phases of her government’s restructuring of health care in Alberta, including plans to remove Alberta Health Services (AHS) as the operator of some hospitals and turn facilities over to other operators like Catholic health care provider Covenant Health. The Alberta government is currently setting up a structure where the government retains ownership of facilities and leases them to AHS and is “prepared to also take away their authority to operate hospitals as well,” Smith said at the town hall on Aug. 17. “Because if our operator isn’t performing the services we need them to we’re going to take (the hospital) back,” Smith said. “The next phase is to see how many of those hospitals that AHS currently operates that we can retake ownership over. We can’t do it for all of them.” Global's Jasmine King has the details. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/10717519/danielle-smith-alberta-hospital-operation-ahs-covenant-health/ Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on X HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #GlobalNews #Alberta #DanielleSmith