📋 Tender Overview
As part of the Alberta Surgical Initiative Alberta Health Services AHS aims to schedule an additional 1350 surgeries in the central zone and about 1250 more procedures in the south zone ranging from hip and knee to general surgeries by inviting chartered surgical facilities to submit proposals.These procedures are expected to boost publicly funded surgeries in central zone communities such as Red Deer and in communities in the south zone like Lethbridge and Medicine Hat by five per cent. Moving more orthopedic and other general surgeries into chartered surgical facilities also frees up operating room space in hospitals to provide more complex surgeries.Albertans are waiting too long for hip and knee replacements and other types of surgeries. Thats why we are moving forward with our plan to deliver more surgeries for Albertans closer to their home and within the clinically appropriate period. Albertas government remains committed to expanding health-care system capacity and making sure Albertans get much better value for their health-care dollars.
