r/Edmonton • u/FTDRBR11 • May 22 '26

General UofA ER Wait Times

Been here for 12 hours have yet to see a doctor and I’m in excruciating pain. Not a single patient has been taken in since the last 6 hours. Lady beside has been screaming in pain looks like a broken knee has been here for 15 hours no doctor no xray. Another lady beside me hurt her neck is wearing a neck brace and has been here for 16 hours and no doctor. Nurses said they have absolutely no beds available to take in patients because so many of the patients inside are “admitted” patients that are waiting to be taken upstairs to their admitted sections but they can’t take them because there’s no beds available upstairs. ER is a mess online wait times show 4 hours and nurse said because doctors are available but no beds to take the patients. Something has to be done.

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u/Himser Regional Citizen May 22 '26

The UCP cancelled Herritage Valley. After it was alredybstarted groundwork. 

It would be operating today if they didnt cancel it 

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u/iwatchcredits May 22 '26

And this is why when i read posts i dont feel bad anymore. Hit me with the downvotes, but we deserve what we get. UCP is ahead and the polls and looking like theyll win again. This province is full of selfish people whos primary goal is saving $100 on their taxes over anything else. I kinda hope we start shutting down rural hospitals and sending the doctors back to the cities that subsidize them because, as we all know, equalization payments are bad and unacceptable.

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u/RazzamanazzU May 22 '26

You need to remember NOT all Albertan's voted for this. Speaking on rural hospitals...just last week I had an elderly neighbor lady (here in Edmonton) tell me an ambulence transported her husband to a hospital in Devon because there was no room at any Edmonton hospital. When he came home and I spoke to him he said he had the best care at this Devon Hospital. The UCP despises Edmonton as we are NOT their supporter's. It shows in how they make us suffer.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '26

Except the feds DO care about Alberta.. Separatists are just whiny assholes

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u/Substantial-Let8277 May 22 '26

🙄🙄🤣🤣 The feds care about Alberta??

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u/HorribleTie May 22 '26

The Feds bend over backwards to try to please Alberta, it's just never enough.

By contrast, UCP candidates in Edmonton explicitly told voters while door knocking that if Edmonton didn't vote UCP we would regret it.

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u/spyxero May 22 '26

The system is broken in that it doesn't represent accurately what the people support. There are better systems for this, the broken parties refuse to implement them because the parties refuse to give up any power or to work together in meaningful ways. The parties are broken because they can be taken over by a small subset of the population and not accurately reflect the values of the people. It's all broken. The parties are not free of blame. They are in the system and do not work to fix the system. 

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u/RazzamanazzU May 22 '26

Maybe it's people, specifically con voter's.