CALGARY - Alberta Health Services have announced a three-year plan to add almost 800 "community living options" in the province for senior patients - who would otherwise crowd hospital beds, officials said. Stephen Duckett, the provincial body's president and CEO, added that there will be no healthcare staff layoff announcemnts today, and there will be none until Alberta Health Services work through its current care plan. The plan, Duckett says, is to invest about $13 million in both the Calgary and Edmonton CMA to expand community care. The new spaces - about 775 between the two metropolitan areas - will include home care, supportive living and long-term care facilities. The move of seniors who don't need acute care will allow health officials to free up hospital beds, Duckett says. Then the people who actually understand Health Care (those who work in the front line) could get on with providing quality care unhampered by the vast parasitic beauracracy that is sustaining itself at the expense of patients. read more

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