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PCA Weekly Update
Newborn hearing screening results now in Netcare
If you see patients with newborns, you can help ensure these infants are screened for permanent congenital hearing loss. Newborn hearing screening and audiological diagnostic results gathered dating from October 1, 2025, are now available on Netcare, making it easier to support parents.
Primary care providers can help by speaking to parents about the importance of screening and encouraging them to attend follow-up appointments. Early detection and timely intervention is crucial to optimizing language, brain development and overall health outcomes for infants with hearing loss.
All infants born in Alberta are offered screening for permanent congenital hearing loss by Primary Care Alberta through the Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Program. A referral is not required for hearing screening.
Get more information here
APL lab bulletin: Cervical cancer screening change
As noted in last week’s Clinical Update, community cervical cancer screening for individuals aged 50-69 will transition to primary high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) testing on November 5.
Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL) encourages primary care providers to review and follow the updated screening algorithm at ahs.ca/hpvtesting. Note that there are no changes to the current APL Gynecological Cytopthology Requisition or Cervical Cancer screening collection devices.
Adult Orthopedic Referral Pathway updated
The Provincial Pathways Unit is happy to share that the Adult Orthopedic Referral Pathway has been updated to better align with other supporting resources such as the optimized Knee Primary Care Pathway and provincial radiology protocols.
Where possible, the requirements have been simplified – for example, where a protocol can be ordered instead of a list of individual X-ray views.
Nutrition resource survey now open
AHS Public Health dietitians want your input on how public health nutrition resources can better support your practice.
If you work in community or ambulatory care and support clients during preconception, pregnancy, infancy or childhood, please consider filling out this short survey (5-8 minutes). Deadline: November 24, 2025. Thank you for helping us improve existing tools and develop additional resources – your feedback matters.
Support safe follow-up care for individuals experiencing homelessness
Wondering how you can help individuals experiencing homelessness? Join the next H2H2H Transitions in Care Talk on supporting transitions in care for individuals experiencing homelessness, presented by Primary Care Alberta and hosted by the AMA Accelerating Change Transformation Team (ACTT), November 26, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
You’ll find out how providers and programs are addressing significant challenges during transitions out of hospitals, and you’ll learn how a multidisciplinary task group is working to improve clinical standards and workflows for individuals experiencing homelessness.
Get more information and register here.
Woman’s Health Coalition
Save the Date: Annual General Meeting : Saturday, November 1, 10 AM (MT)
We’re pleased to invite all of our members/volunteers to attend our upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM). This meeting is an important opportunity to come together as a community, reflect on the past year’s progress, celebrate our shared achievements, and shape the year ahead!
Click Here to Register!
IWK Foundation “The Unspoken Burden of Women’s Health”
The IWK Foundation recently released an important publication "The Unspoken Burden of Women's Health," highlighting significant gaps in women's healthcare based on the voices of over 27,000 Maritime women. Women’s health is undervalued and underserved in every province. Working together, raising awareness, and demanding more of the health system will make women’s health matter.
Click Here to Read!
WHC Community Sharing Space
Join the WHC's new online community support group , hosted by the WHC Patient Advisory Council.
This Facebook group offers a safe, supportive, and judgment-free space to share your women's health experiences, challenges, and ideas about navigating Canada’s health system.
Whether you’re join to tell your story, listen or just to connect, know you are not alone. Let’s uplift, empower, and support one another through shared voices and real talk.
Recruiting WHC boards, committees and volunteers
We are inviting volunteers to join our passionate teams to make a difference for women's health across Canada. Vacancies:
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WHC-Canada: Patient Advisory Committee Co-Director & Committee members; Healthcare Professional Committee members for the National Leadership Council
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WHC-BC and WHC-QC: Board of Directors
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WHC-AB: Director of Community Partnership and Advocacy (North); Director of Fundraising & Events; Alberta Leadership Council (HCP's); Academic and Research Partnerships Team Committee (students and researchers)
Interested in volunteering?
Email Elaha Niazi, Member and Volunteer Experiences Director, at membership@TheWHC.ca
Job Postings
The Alberta Primary Care Nurses Association is offering free advertising on our website for Primary Care Nursing positions in Alberta. We will post your job on our website for 30 days at no charge. Just e-mail the information to our e-mail (apcna.executive@gmail.com). Please make sure that the job posting includes a contact name and e-mail as we will not be forwarding any applications we receive to our e-mail address.
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