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Alberta Health Services (AHS) is the province-wide organization responsible for providing hospital and other health care in the Canadian province of Alberta. Known as the 'super board', it was created in May 2008, with the abolition of nine previous regional health authorities; the Alberta Mental Health Board; the Alberta Cancer Board and the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission^[1]^[2]. It is the largest provider of health care in Canada, Alberta's largest employer (with about 90,000 staff) and the 5th largest employer in Canada. Health services in Alberta have been reorganized a number of times, with successively fewer separate public organizational entities^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6].

Alberta Health Services' strategic directionarticulates three broad goals (access, quality and sustainability) which expand into eight 'areas of focus' (e.g. improving access, fit for the future, learning and improving) and 20 strategic priorities.

The formal structure of Alberta Health Services separates acute hospital facilities (with separate reporting lines for major tertiary, metropolitan and regional hospitals) from smaller hospitals and community services, the latter organized into five zones (North, Edmonton, Central, Calgary and South). The Calgary Zone, for example, includes some sites and services formerly administered by the Calgary Health Region while other services have been reorganized on a provincial scale.

Edmonton-based Dr Stephen Duckett is the inaugural President and Chief Executive Officer of Alberta Health Services, taking up the role on 23 March 2009.

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^ Liepert, R. (2009). Provincial health structure: Alberta Health Innovation Report Fall pp 12-13 also at http://www.healthinnovationforum.org/2009/nov/01/recent-changes-health-structures-alberta/
^ Philippon, D (2009). Health care system reorganization: expectations, approaches and impact Health Innovation Report Fall pp 44-49
^ Philippon, D. J. and S. A. Wasylyshyn (1996). Health-care reform in Alberta. Canadian Public Administration 39(1): 70-84.
^ Reay, T. and C. R. Hinings (2005). The Recomposition of an Organizational Field: Health Care in Alberta. Organization Studies 26(3): 351-384.
^ Hinings, C. R., A. Casebeer, et al. (2003). Regionalizing Healthcare in Alberta: Legislated Change, Uncertainty and Loose Coupling British Journal of Management 14:S1(December): S15-S30.
^ Casebeer, A., T. Reay, et al. (2006). Experiences of Regionalization: Assessing Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives across Time. Healthcare Quarterly 9(2): 32-43.

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[0] Liepert, R. (2009). Provincial health structure: Alberta Health Innovation Report Fall pp 12-13 also at http://www.healthinnovationforum.org/2009/nov/01/recent-changes-health-structures-alberta/

[1] Philippon, D (2009). Health care system reorganization: expectations, approaches and impact Health Innovation Report Fall pp 44-49

[2] Philippon, D. J. and S. A. Wasylyshyn (1996). Health-care reform in Alberta. Canadian Public Administration 39(1): 70-84.

[3] Reay, T. and C. R. Hinings (2005). The Recomposition of an Organizational Field: Health Care in Alberta. Organization Studies 26(3): 351-384.

[4] Hinings, C. R., A. Casebeer, et al. (2003). Regionalizing Healthcare in Alberta: Legislated Change, Uncertainty and Loose Coupling British Journal of Management 14:S1(December): S15-S30.

[5] Casebeer, A., T. Reay, et al. (2006). Experiences of Regionalization: Assessing Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives across Time. Healthcare Quarterly 9(2): 32-43.

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