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@PfParks
Jul 21 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Please HELP Alberta!

This is real data from EDM EDs
It shows the worsening trend of completely blocked EDs

Share widely and talk about this!

Help bring this to the Premier/govt's attention (maybe call into her radio show, as that seems to inform govt policy!!!)
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Important context:
- this shows total EIPs in a month (sick pts stranded in the ED, blocking care for NEW emerg pts)
- at 1500: safe and timely care really suffers
- at 2500: waits escalate and many bad outcomes occur
- > 3000: people start dying in our WRs and hallways
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- this SKYROCKETING trend is happening in all major AB EDs, but EDM is the worst hit

- Premier Smith personally decided to cancel a new EDM hospital despite this GRIDLOCK

- promised govt strategies (TLP WR doc is only one example) are not happening
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4625 EIPs in the month of JUNE is a TRUE DISASTER not just "immense pressure" as prev HC Minister Jones admitted

If you want a functioning emergency care system in our province, can you please help?

Ask the Premier what she intends to do to correct this IMMEDIATELY
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@ABDanielleSmith
@AdrianaLaGrange
What's the plan to deal with this unmitigated disaster facing our EDs?
@ABDanielleSmith @AdrianaLaGrange @threadreaderapp Please roll up

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Jun 6
Let's talk wait times with CHEST PAIN at the UofA ED.

Just this week: posted "average" wait time at UAH was 5hrs... but something has changed and these are no longer even close to reflective of the real wait times.

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A Real patient, in their 40s, registered with severe chest pain and difficulty taking a deep breath.

Blood work and CXR done in the WR (pt got the results and the xray written report on their phone BEFORE seeing anyone)...
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CTAS 2 (very high risk, high acuity) waited 13 HOURS to be seen

All the while the posted wait times never moved from 5hrs! The two screen shots were taken at hour 9 and 11 of their wait...
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Jun 1
Hey Calgary... Looks like the plan to improve EMS response times is to create formal HALLWAY MEDICINE in your newest built hospital! 🧵

No plan to improve ED flow and admissions... just expand its Waiting Areas!
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South Health Campus ED has about 30 functional ED spaces to work out of, and given overcrowding and EMS Red Alerts (no EMS available to respond to next emergency), the plan is to build a fancy new long HALLWAY off the new ED to offload EMS pts to!
2/6
That's right: Calgary seniors are going to be dumped off into a long public hallway area to be stranded for hours waiting for emergency care! 

They are planning to go big! 17 NEW HALLWAY OFFLOAD SPACES!

This is the actual UCP PLAN: formalized hallway emergency care!
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Apr 29


Excellent summary, please read.
Couple of points that should concern all ABs...

While our Premier wants more private insurance:
"One estimate puts the profits of the top seven publicly traded insurance companies at $71 billion in 2024...
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This is one of the reasons that the United States far outspends other high-income countries on health care as a share of GDP."
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"The average American pays more than $17,000 for health care annually, which does not include insurance premiums that they and their employers pay, as well as co-payments, deductibles, and the taxes that fund Medicare, Medicaid, and other public programs."
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Apr 27
Govt sold Bill 11 as an amazing idea because shadow bureaucrats (the legions of consultants the UCP govt pays) told them it is a good idea. Govt told ABs "It works in Sweden"... but NOTHING we have here will look like what Sweden has.🧵
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Sharing simple graphics to show just ONE major difference (there are soooooo many differences between our systems!)

Sweden has guaranteed wait times, if you can't get your care in the guaranteed timeframe they will pay for you to go to another region (or approved EU country)
2/7
Sweden tightly controls all QUEUES and wait lists, as well as the rates that can be charged in a private or public facility (where govt pays), and pays for vast majority of surgical care publicly (with capped co-pays!)
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Apr 25


This is an excellent op-ed 👇, give it a read.

If I might add: the numbers quoted here are if done under the PUBLIC PAY billing schedule (govt's costs)

They all INCREASE when for-profit companies can charge whatever they want....
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AB reality today (all-in costs): 
- public MRI $500-650 for govt pay (can vary based on the scan type)
- private MRI $750-1200

when you allow profit-driver costs go up....

but there's also lots of reasons why you can't even compare Japan's system to ours...
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Regardless: the Premier is selling AB a pipe dream...  private pay out of pocket in an unfettered market is the US system and NOT the Japanese one!

She knows this... her govt knows this... they just don't want to openly say that they want the AB HC system to be like the US!
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Apr 17
I find the recent poll and "research" from MEI mind blowing...

This is the think tank that our Premier and govt is being "advised" by, and polls like these are designed and released simply to support a narrative.🧵
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I hesitated commenting on this, but let's just break down their "Key Findings" and how they apply to AB:

1 - ​OBVIOUS: prov HC systems underperforming - not too much controversy...asked simply to lead into loaded Q's about ONE Way to address this (private care)
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2 - IRONY - our AB govt's approach to people thinking the system is too bureaucratic is to hire a bunch of consultants to propose solutions...
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