Thousands of Edmonton ambulance shifts unstaffed in 2022: provincial data
The Health Sciences Association of Alberta figures those vacancies represent a 15.5 per cent vacancy rate, or an additional 123.5 FTEs .
HSAA president Mike Parker said he’s been hearing about front-line shortages for years, shortages that lead to “code reds” when there are no ambulances available.“We’ve been talking about it in the model of code reds every single day in this province, in all metro cities, all over the province.
“One of the great frustrations that I have heard from our paramedics is when they show up for a shift and then get called out of their home community and are never able to return back home,” Smith said at a press conference Tuesday.
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