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New legal structure of Alberta health system in place, Premier Smith now eyes results
Premier Smith aims to improve Alberta’s health care with a public dashboard and 1,500 new continuing care spaces yearly amid ongoing corruption allegations.
- On Dec. 30, 2025, Premier Danielle Smith put a new legal structure in place for Alberta's health system and said she is shifting from re‑making the system to delivering measurable results.
- Facing allegations of corrupt health‑care spending and calls for an inquiry, longstanding criticism of Alberta Health Services' bureaucratic bloat helped prompt governance changes, critics say.
- Smith pledged a public‑facing dashboard to show decreasing wait times for emergency rooms, ambulance rides and surgeries, and plans for 400,000 new continuing‑care spaces annually.
- Facing political backlash, Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, and many in the United Conservative Party are contending with recall petition campaigns that will drag well into the New Year after invoking the Charter's notwithstanding clause four times in the fall sitting.
- The changes could affect ER waits, ambulance response and surgery backlogs, while health‑care workers warn restructuring has left services in `chaos` and Smith pledges to hold Alberta Health Services accountable.
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New legal structure of Alberta health system in place, Premier Smith now eyes results
CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA — The Alberta government in 2025 completed the final legal foundations of its new health-care system — and Premier Danielle Smith says she's working in 2026 to prove it was worth it.
·Prince George, Canada
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