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Your voice matters
Your insights and perspectives are helping lead the way in designing and implementing Alberta’s refocused health care system, ensuring it meets the needs of Albertans today and for generations to come.
Review the 'What We Heard' reports below, sign up for our newsletter, and stay up to date on the Alberta health care system refocusing efforts.
Status
The first and second rounds of public engagements have concluded and two 'What We Heard' reports have been released to summarize feedback received on refocusing Alberta’s health care system. While this phase of engagement has concluded, Albertans and health care workers will continue to have opportunities to share their perspectives through regional advisory councils.
Who is listening
Ministry of Primary and Preventative Health Services
Ministry of Hospitals and Surgical Health Services
Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction
Ministry of Assisted Living and Social Services
What we heard
The Lead the Way – What We Heard report summarizes feedback from Albertans, including patients, families, caregivers and health care workers, about the refocusing of Alberta’s health care system.
In early 2025, more than 2,000 Albertans participated in a second round of provincewide, in-person engagement sessions. These sessions gave Albertans and health care workers another opportunity to share their perspectives, receive updates and suggest ways the health care system can better support patients, providers and communities across the province.
This input builds on earlier engagement in 2024 and is helping inform decisions as Alberta’s new provincial health agencies – Acute Care Alberta, Assisted Living Alberta, Primary Care Alberta and Recovery Alberta – continue to take shape.
- Read Lead the Way report (October 2025)
- Read Shape the Way report (October 2024)
Newsletter
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Get informed
Learn more about the refocusing of Alberta’s health care system below.
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When the Alberta government announced it would refocus the health care system, we committed to comprehensive engagement and two-way dialogue with Albertans. Between January 23 and April 12, 2024, we heard feedback and ideas from over 30,000 patients, families, caregivers, and health care workers from across Alberta.
The Shape the Way – What We Heard report summarizes the conversations from the first round of engagement and is helping inform the work to refocus Alberta’s health care system.
Following the Shape the Way engagements held in 2024, a second round of provincewide sessions were held in early 2025. Through the additional provincewide engagements, further updates and ideas to improve local decision-making and front-line care have been gathered.
Read the Lead the Way – What We Heard report.
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Ask a question or read answers to other questions about refocusing health care.
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Learn more about how we got here.
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The Health Statutes Amendment Act enables the transition of Alberta’s health care system to a unified system of 4 sector-based provincial health agencies: primary care, acute care, continuing care, and mental health and addiction.
This legislation ensures Albertans have a system that works for them by prioritizing their need to find a primary care provider, to get urgent care without long waits, to have access to the best continuing care options, and expanded access to mental health and addiction treatment.
Additional amendments to the Provincial Health Agencies Act were passed in December 2024, to further implement the system refocusing work, which included creating the legal framework for AHS to transition from a regional health authority to an acute care service provider.
Bill 55, the Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025, advances Alberta’s plan to improve public health delivery and system oversight. If passed, amendments will strengthen health foundations by streamlining governance functions like bylaw approval and board member appointment processes, bring clarity to public health’s role in the refocused system and ensure legislation accurately reflects how hospitals will be managed and operated.
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We’re creating Regional Advisory Councils and an Indigenous Advisory Council, which will provide a way for you to share your perspectives on how to improve health care in your community. Learn more about the advisory councils.
Council members will explore potential solutions to local challenges and look for opportunities to better support local decision-making.
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- Listen to the May 7, 2025 health care refocusing town hall
- Listen to the November 28, 2024 health care refocusing town hall
- Listen to the November 27, 2024 health care refocusing town hall
- Listen to the November 19, 2024 health care refocusing town hall
Outcomes
Your feedback is helping refocus health care in Alberta.
Having a health care system that functions properly is critical to the health and well-being of Albertans and their families. That’s why it’s so important we have these conversations with front-line workers, patients and caregivers about the challenges that exist and how we can build a stronger health care system that serves the current and future needs of Albertans.”