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Non-hospital Contracted Surgical Services Followup
Surgical services in Alberta can be provided at public hospitals or non-hospital surgical facilities. Most surgical procedures, including all major ...
Food Safety Followup
Food safety is an important human health concern. Ensuring that the food we eat is safe involves regulation, and oversight, ...
Primary Care Networks Followup
The Primary Care Network (PCN) program is a key initiative funded by the Department of Health. The department launched the ...
Better Healthcare for Albertans Report
A report by Alberta’s auditor general, released on May 24, 2017, affirms that the province’s long-standing goal of building an ...
Travel, Meal and Hospitality Expenses
We established an annual rotational audit of departments’ systems for verifying that these expenses of the premier, ministers, associate ministers ...
Alberta Health Services—Managing Healthcare Waste Materials Follow-up
In 2012 we audited Alberta Health Services’ systems to manage the handling and disposal of healthcare waste materials. For purposes of ...
Systems to Manage the Delivery of Mental Health Services Follow-up
Mental illness affects one in five Albertans during their lifetime. Severe and persistent mental illness is a chronic disease and ...
Report of the Auditor General—July 2015
Seniors Care in Long-term Care Facilities Follow-up
Thousands of Albertans live in long-term care facilities. They deserve to be as healthy and happy as possible in a ...
Crown’s Right of Recovery of Healthcare Costs from Motor Vehicle Accidents
Objective and Scope The objective of our audit was to assess if the department has adequate processes in place to ...
Various Departments—Contracting
On April 7, 2014 we were asked by an MLA to investigate the circumstances surrounding contracts the Government of Alberta awarded to 1689986 ...
Report on Chronic Disease Management
The purpose of chronic disease management is to provide care that helps people with chronic disease improve their quality of ...
Contracted Surgical Facilities Follow-up
In 2011, we concluded that AHS made satisfactory progress in implementing our earlier recommendation to establish outcome-based performance measures for non-hospital ...
Report of the Auditor General of Alberta—July 2014
This report contains one new and six repeated recommendations to government. The repeated recommendations have been made because we do ...
AHS Select Electronic Health Record Processes Follow-Up
Select Electronic Health Record Processes Follow-Up
In 2009 we conducted an audit of select electronic health record processes, which focused on the Department of Health’s and ...
Infection Prevention and Control at Alberta Hospitals
Infection prevention and control is one of the central aspects of healthcare delivery and is critical for managing patient safety ...
Provincial Food Safety Follow-up
In 2006, we made 10 recommendations relating to food safety in Alberta.
AHS Controls Over Expense Claims, Purchasing Card Transactions and Other Travel Expenses
What we examined In response to a request from both the Minister of Health and Alberta Health Services, we examined ...
Primary Care Networks
The first Primary Care Network began operations in 2005. The program has grown steadily since its inception. As of April 2012, there ...