HEALTH  AROUND  CALGARY

• Alberta Children´s Hospital - Serves patients from southern Alberta, southeastern B.C., and southwestern Saskatchewan. Pediatric Trauma Centre and 24-Emergency services treat over 38,000 children each year. 6,000 children are admitted as inpatients annually. 15 bed ICU 9 Pediatric beds and 6 Neonatal beds. Specialty Programs include Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant; Burns and Plastic Surgery.
  
• Alzheimer Society of Alberta - Alzheimer Alberta has developed and maintains a Resource Center of books, video's, and articles related to Alzheimer disease.Our collection is of special interest to caregivers and support groups to help them in caring for victims of this disease. Items from the Resource Center can be used at the Alberta Provincial office or loaned out to interested individuals. We can mail out books and videos to any where in the Province of Alberta.
  
• Colonel Belcher Hospital - Veteran's hospital with no emergency department or urgent care centre. Over 90 Volunteers to help Clinical Staff.
  
• Calgary Regional Health Authority - Responsible for the governance, planning, management and delivery of health care services and facilities that serve the residents of Calgary and area.
  
• Foothills Medical Centre - Foothills Hospital is part of a unique partnership between the Grace Women's Health Centre, the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine and the Alberta Cancer Board's Tom Baker Centre. Serves half a million patients/year from southern Alberta, southeastern B.C. and southwestern Saskatchewan. 24 hour Emergency Department, Trauma centre, 22 bed Intensive Care Unit and 24 bed Cardiac Care Unit. 18 operating theatres including a specially designated Trauma Operating Room. High Risk Maternity and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Specialty Programs include Cardiology, Clinical Neurosciences, Provincial Bone Marrow Transplant multiple transplantation (i.e. kidney, pancreas, corneal and tissue). HOPE (Human Organ Procurement and Exchange). Intraoperative MR - Magnetic Resonance System first of its kind in the world, located in the Seaman's Family MR Research Centre.
  
• Map of Calgary Hospitals - Locations of Calgary Hospitals and Care Units.
  
• Peter Lougheed Centre - Provides comprehensive and specialized medical and surgical services to Calgary and southern Alberta. Intensive Care Unit, 24 hour Emergency Department. Programs include: Maternal Newborn, including a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Child Health Inpatient Unit and Day Surgery, Southern Alberta Geriatrics and Mental Health.
  
• Rockyview General Hospital - Provides specialized medical and surgical services to Calgary region. Intensive Care Unit / Coronary Care Unit, 24 hour Emergency department, Maternal Newborn Programs, including Special Care Nursery, Surgical Services and Day Surgery Unit Mental Health and Psychiatric Service, Seniors' Health Program, and Lions Eye Bank (regional centre for recovery of donated eye tissue for corneal transplants and research).