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Province turns to private sector for help reducing surgery wait times

Alberta is increasing public funding to non-hospital surgical clinics to address the serious backlog in joint replacement surgeries in that province. Addressing wait times is one of our key areas of advocacy focus: arthritis is the leading cause of joint replacement surgeries, including 99% of knee replacements and 80% of hip replacements. 
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