Alberta premier hints at ‘other arrangements’ as Dynalife struggles with lab services
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Since DynaLIFE began providing lab services across Alberta last year, complaints have piled in from patients describing challenges in accessing services like blood tests.
Long wait times for appointments to get tests and other complaints about Alberta’s laboratory services have reached the ears of the premier, who said another direction may be needed if DynaLIFE doesn’t meet the demand.
In Calgary, appointments for bloodwork were booking into July when Global News checked on Monday.
“I’m hearing that all over, that DynaLIFE has not met performance expectations,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said on her first radio call-in show since the UCP won a majority government on May 29.
During the radio show Your Province Your Premier on 630 CHED and QR Calgary on Saturday, Smith was asked about the potential of reversing a decision to contract out publicly operated community lab services from Alberta Precision Laboratories to private company DynaLIFE.
Although Smith said Alberta Health Services was looking into the issue, she suggested changes if DynaLIFE couldn’t meet demand.
“If they don’t, then we can make other other arrangements to be able to bring in additional personnel to be able to make sure that we meet those expectations,” Smith said.
“I hope we don’t have to go to that level, but they need to … perform as we’ve expected them to.”
Smith’s comments have raised questions from health care advocates, who agree something must be done to address the long wait times for appointments and tests.
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