An NDP government would reverse cuts to Alberta's health-care system and provide more hospital space for patients, Rachel Notley says.

The NDP leader outlined three main focuses in her party's plan for health care.

She promised to stop the cuts announced by the Progressive Conservative government in its March 26 budget. The budget calls for a $160-million cut to health care spending, trimming the department's budget to $18.9 billion.

"The PC party has created a crisis in our hospitals," Notley said during Monday's announcement in Edmonton. "Jim Prentice's cuts will make it even worse for patients and their families."

She said health-care spending must keep pace with population growth. When asked where the money to reverse the cuts would come from, Notley did not provide specifics, saying the NDP will release their full fiscal plan "in the course of the next few days."

She also pledged to cancel a planned reorganization of AHS, which she estimates will cost $9 million. She said frequent restructuring of the agency creates "chaos" in health care and shifts the focus away from actually providing health care for patients.

Instead, she proposed smaller changes to make AHS more accountable and improve health-care services in rural Alberta.

Finally, the party plans to slowly restore what Notley said is 600,000 square feet of unused space in the province's hospitals, which she said will ease emergency room wait times and reduce the number of patients being treated in hallways.

"Today, our hospitals are stretched beyond their capacity," she said. "Unlike Jim Prentice, I know health care is not just a budget line for Albertans."

The party will release more information on its plans for hospital maintenance later this week.