Smith also announced her intention to replace chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw, saying she’ll “be developing a new team of public-health advisers.”Article content
The extent of the overhaul Smith says she wants to pursue has yet to be seen but, during the leadership campaign, she said she wouldOn Tuesday, she said there’s a “management problem” at AHS causing issues in the health system, including driving frontline health-care workers from their jobs as they suffer from a lack of resources and burnout.
“What happens in a business when they fail to meet targets and they fail to meet direction, you change the management. And so that’s what we’re going to do, we’re going to change the management,” Smith said.“The thing that Smith seems to be most concerned about is the fact that couldn’t respond by increasing the number of ICU beds, but they didn’t have control over the number of people trying to access those beds and can’t turn them away like a private business can,” she said.
Smith’s apparent plan to “clean house” in management and policy could create the opposite impression, pointing to the outcry over the sudden ouster of Dr. Verna Yiu, the former president and CEO of AHS. Smith also claimed that “a lot” of the problem of hospital staffing issues was created by the AHS mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. The health authority announced last August that all health workers would need to have two shots to protect against COVID by Halloween of 2021.Article content
Conservatives want citizens to die its more profitable
I think she’s waving goodbye!
That department needs an enema
After lengthy study, reflection, collaboration, and consultation, Smith will incrementally make strength based changes to our health care system. She knows that quickly upending a fragile system could have disastrous impacts on the health and safety of Albertans. Right 🤦♀️