The crisisAlberta’s hospital crisis has been years in the making, said Dr. Paul Parks, an emergency medicine physician in Medicine Hat. The spokesperson for Acute Care Alberta, which oversees emergency and in-patient care for hospitals across the province, said they can’t speak to individual patient concerns. “This isn’t health care. Over nearly six hours, he said he witnessed a line snake outside the emergency room. Currie said he felt like he was losing consciousness and decided to call an ambulance from Grey Nuns to the University of Alberta Hospital.