Alberta expands medical lab testing to reduce long waits, particularly in Calgary

The government-owned Alberta Precision Laboratories is to offer 400 new community testing appointments at the South Health Campus and the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary beginning Saturday.The change is part of an arrangement worked out between Alberta Precision Labs and Dynalife, the private provider that handles the bulk of community lab appointments in Alberta.

“This is an important next step to increasing the number of appointments that are available to Albertans, because we need to ensure that they have timely access to appointments,” LaGrange said Thursday in an interview. “As of today, there were waits of upwards of 90 minutes for an appointment that's already scheduled. That's unacceptable,” LaGrange said.

The Health Sciences Association of Alberta said its members have been working overtime and extra time to help fill the gap in lab testing and it has taken a toll.

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