Key Influencer – David Diamond – Interim CEO, Acute Care Alberta

Source: Acute Care Alberta

David Diamond currently serves as Interim Chief Operating Officer of Acute Care Alberta, one of the province’s new health corporations that became fully operational on September 1, 2025. Acute Care Alberta is responsible for overseeing hospital services, emergency departments, surgeries, urgent care centres, and EMS coordination across the province. Appointed Interim Chief Operating Officer on February 20, 2025, and now leading the corporation as Interim CEO, Diamond is responsible for guiding the operational implementation of Alberta’s refocused health care system.

Diamond brings more than three decades of health system leadership experience from across Canada. Most recently, he served as President and CEO of Eastern Health beginning in 2014 and later as CEO of the newly consolidated Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services, where he led the province’s transition to a single provincial health authority. Upon his retirement in 2024, Newfoundland’s Premier credited Diamond for helping create a “solid foundation” for continued health transformation and being instrumental in the province’s system redesign efforts.

His connection to Alberta is longstanding. Diamond previously held leadership roles with Capital Health and Alberta Health Services during the province’s earlier transition to a unified health authority. He has cited that experience as formative in shaping his focus on execution, organizational alignment, and frontline resilience during periods of structural change.

Throughout his career, Diamond has emphasized that successful reform depends less on design and more on disciplined implementation. With an operationally grounded approach to leadership, he places strong emphasis on engaging frontline teams and maintaining system stability amid transformation.

With the launch of new refocused health corporations, including Acute Care Alberta, Primary Care Alberta, Assisted Living Alberta, and Recovery Alberta, Diamond’s leadership will play a critical role in determining if restructuring delivers tangible improvements for Albertans.