Ahs Podcasts

The COVID-19 global pandemic has put additional pressures on all parts of the health system, including laboratory services. Teams at Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL) have been working 20 hours a day, seven days a week, for the past few weeks in order to deal with a surge in demand for COVID-19-related testing, as well as manage ongoing needs for other testing. Dr. Graham Tipples — APL’s Medical-Scientific Director at Provincial Laboratory for Public Health — answers questions about when APL started to respond to COVID-19 and what APL’s response looks like now and what it might look like in the weeks ahead. (14 mins)

The COVID-19 Physician Wellness podcast begins this week as an ongoing opportunity to provide updates and information to physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first podcast has split into two parts. In part one, Dr. Curtis Johnston, Edmonton Zone Deputy Medical Director and Dr. Debrah Wirtzfeld, co-lead for the AHS Physician Wellness portfolio discuss seven steps of resilience.

The COVID-19 Physician Wellness podcast begins this week as an ongoing opportunity to provide updates and information to physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first podcast has split into two parts. In part two, Dr. Curtis Johnston, Edmonton Zone Deputy Medical Director and Dr. Debrah Wirtzfeld, co-lead for the AHS Physician Wellness portfolio they talk about the impact social isolation and social media have on wellness.

AHS COVID-19 Podcast - Dealing with Loss by Alberta Health Services

AHS EMS Chief Paramedic Darren Sandbeck shares details on the work EMS is doing across the province supporting Albertans and frontline staff during the COVID-19 outbreak, including how staff are protecting themselves, how 911 calls are being handled and how EMS is currently managing events province-wide.

In this episode, Dr. Mitchell shares some advice about the importance of staying connected while practicing social distancing.

“Stress during this time is normal. The key is not to get overwhelmed. Get trusted sources for information.” Advice from AHS Addiction and Mental Health Provincial Medical Director Dr. Nicholas Mitchell.

Dr. Nicholas Etches, Medical Officer of Health, answers some common questions about the current COVID-19 virus situation.

In a new AHS podcast, we interview Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro about his life, his family, his career in law and politics, and his vision for healthcare in the province.

This episode of the ESCN podcast features an insightful conversation with senior healthcare leaders to discuss an initiative aimed to optimizing transfers from Long-term Care Facilities to an Emergency Department. The ESCN is partnering with Seniors Health, RAAPID, Community Paramedicine, and Long-term Care (LTC) Facilities. The solution is a centralized and standardized LTC-ED care and referral pathway for LTC facilities considering transfer to ED. In conjunction with the implementation of this new pathway, targeted INTERACT® (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers) tools will be implemented within LTC. This new standardized LTC-ED care and referral pathway will help to better optimize use of both the emergency department and the community paramedicine program, in a way that is patient-centered. Studies have shown that the provision of community paramedicine within LTC can significantly reduce transfers to emergency. This initiative will be implemented within 36 LTC facilities in the Calgary Zone bet

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University of Alberta Hospital neurologist Dr. Brian Buck discusses the case of André Therriault, a Donnelly farmer who survived and recovered from a serious stroke despite falling ill hundreds of kilometres away from a major stroke centre. This story is told in the video: Stroke program has rural Albertans covered [add hyperlink] on YouTube. In this podcast, Dr. Buck — Co-chair of the Acute Stroke Expert Working Group of the Cardiovascular Health & Stroke Strategic Clinical Network — talks about the Alberta Health Services stroke program and how it ensures Albertans in rural and remote communities can receive prompt, outstanding stroke care when they need it. “In terms of an integrated strategy to dealing with stroke patients, Alberta is unmatched,” says Dr. Buck.

Bronchiolitis, a viral respiratory infection, is the leading cause of infant hospitalization in Canada. On this podcast, host Dr Eddy Lang and guest Inelda Gjata will highlight the development and execution of a bronchiolitis-based audit and feedback project developed by the Alberta Medical Association's Physician Learning Program.

We encourage healthcare providers to consider that ‘function’ is an important health outcome. The rehabilitation philosophy and model of care frames efforts to encourage the notion that “rehabilitation is everyone’s responsibility” in healthcare.

Social innovations means investing in meeting the needs of the community first and peoples’ perspectives. Data on the day-to-day tensions and relationships need to be addressed and unpacked to help tackle the complexity of issues facing the communities. This means, among other things, collectively designing prototypes that might work towards building out a bigger solution.

Dr. Carolyn O’Hara and Tammy Hofer share updates on the announcement of the APL Executive Director People and Transformation, status of the organizational structures, the APL visioning sessions, and the APL e-People system.

Join rural healthcare leaders Angie Mann and Ashley Schefter as they discuss how they took family presence form concept to action, and listen to patient family members Terry and Deb Dunlop describe how family presence has positively impacted them.

Listen and learn how caregivers/families alongside primary care physicians play unique roles in all aspects of healthcare planning, quality improvement and safety

To help mark Patient and Family Centered Care (PFCC) Week (Nov. 5 – 9, 2018), come listen in on a discussion about family presence with Registered Nurses Paul Wright and Roberta Corea.

To help mark Patient and Family Centered Care (PFCC) Week (Nov. 5 – 9, 2018), come listen in on a discussion about family presence and what it means to clinicians and patients, including Joanne Cabrera, Executive Director, Surgery, Women's Health, Neurosciences, South Health Campus, Devyn Bryant, Registered Nurse, Post Anesthetic Case Unit (PACU), South Health Campus, patient Greg Miller and family member Joanne Miller.