| has gloss | eng: 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 , 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 . 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 . |