Alberta Children's Hospital

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Alberta Children's Hospital
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Alberta Children's Hospital
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Location of Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary
Geography
Location28 Oki Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Coordinates 51°04′28″N114°08′53″W / 51.074444°N 114.148056°W / 51.074444; -114.148056
Organization
Care system Public Medicare (Canada)
Type Specialist
Services
Emergency department Yes, Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center
Beds150 [1]
Speciality Pediatric hospital/Pediatric trauma centre
Helipad TC LID: CAC6
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History
OpenedMay 19, 1922;102 years ago (1922-05-19) (as Junior Red Cross Children's Hospital)
Links
Website www.childrenshospital.ab.ca
Lists Hospitals in Canada

Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH) is a children's hospital located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and operated by the Calgary Health Region of Alberta Health Services.

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It originally opened on May 19, 1922 as the Junior Red Cross Children's Hospital. [2] Its current building, opened on September 27, 2006, is the largest children's hospital in the prairie provinces and was the first free-standing pediatric facility to be built in Canada in more than 20 years.[ citation needed ] It is located west of the University of Calgary campus grounds and just across from the site of the Foothills Medical Centre.

ACH is one of several children's hospitals in Canada (others being Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Shriners Hospital for Children – Canada in Montreal, Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine in Montréal, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton, The Children's Hospital of Winnipeg in Winnipeg, Children's Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario, BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver and IWK Health Centre in Halifax).

Design

The Alberta Children's Hospital was designed with substantial input from young patients, as well as families, physicians and staff of the hospital. In 2002, architects created renderings of how the hospital could look; a multi-storey brick building. These drawings were brought to the hospital's Teen Advisory Group (TAG) and changed substantially into a colourful building closely resembling toy building blocks. [3]

The idea for the Alberta Children's Hospital was to create a building that would reduce stress and promote healing. The interior of the hospital has been designed to enable the delivery of family centred care. The hospital includes supports for families.

The Alberta Children's Hospital is used by patients from birth to age 18 from southern Alberta, southeastern British Columbia and southwestern Saskatchewan. It is an accredited pediatric level I trauma centre by the Trauma Association of Canada. [4] Additionally, the ACH is the provincial expert and referral centre for bone marrow transplantation, and is the leader in Western Canada (which is rapidly establishing itself as the national leader), for pediatric neurosciences. It also is the only pediatric hospital in Canada that consists of a comprehensive Behavioral Unit, is the world leader in congenital cataracts surgery, and has the largest pediatric vision clinic in all of Western Canada. [5]

The Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute for Child and Maternal Health (ACHRI) is the Alberta Children's Hospital's affiliated research institute, and has a team of over 150 involved in the study of human development from embryo to adulthood. [6]

Clinics

The facility operates 34 clinics: [7]

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References

  1. https://achpccg.com/about/alberta-childrens-hospital/
  2. Coppes-Zantinga, Arty (1997). The child in the centre : seventy-five years at the Alberta Children's Hospital. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. p.  61. ISBN   1-895176-99-9.
  3. Calgary Health Region (2006). "Alberta Children's Hospital". Archived from the original on 2007-02-03. Retrieved 2007-03-04.
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  5. First in North America with Laser Eye Surgery for Kids!
  6. Institute Profile [ permanent dead link ]
  7. Calgary Health Region. "Alberta Children's Hospital – Clinics". Archived from the original on 10 February 2007. Retrieved 13 March 2007.