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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Anyone else who has to go for blood work regularly notice that since the UCP gave the contract to Dynalife, it's gone to absolute ####? With an appointment it can be 45 minutes, and without? Ha. Hahaha. Have fun with that. Want to book an appointment? Oh ya, good luck, too. Beddington is booking May 29th. Gulf and Shumar are end of April, so that's a little better. But this is essential healthcare, and waiting a month to adjust medications isn't an option, so I guess go sit around for 3 hours?
Thanks UCP. Another shining example of privatization making things worse for us users and taxpayers, but I don't remember my taxes going down to make this happen. I'm sure some UCP buddy is rolling in the money piles though.
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Yeah, the daughter has fairly regular blood work that has to be done and Airdrie is a royal ####show. It's always been a ####show but since DynaLife took over, it's a ####show on steroids. Hubs had to go last week, did it as a walk in, and waited more than 2 hours.
For the most part, I've given up on Airdrie. We book appointments in Didsbury, usually able to get one right away. With her health issues, we have no choice but to book appointments, she can't sit for 2 hours. So far, she's never waited more than 10 minutes past her appointment time and that 10 minutes was because this set of labs had 1 test the lab wasn't familiar with, so they had to check to ensure they were doing everything properly, which I appreciate.
I did just book an appointment with the Airdrie lab, but I booked it for 3 months from now, it's labwork ordered by her oncologist-endocrinologist for follow up appointments, so has to be done and ready by a certain time.
I don't know about other labs, in AB but I won't even try to book an appointment or suggest going as a walk-in on a Monday, for here or Didsbury. Seems like everyone saves their labwork for Mondays and it's exponentially worse.