Red Deer Regional Hospital

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Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre
Alberta Health Services
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Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre in the fall of 2015
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Location in Alberta
Geography
Location Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Coordinates 52°15′37.75″N113°49′4.75″W / 52.2604861°N 113.8179861°W / 52.2604861; -113.8179861 Coordinates: 52°15′37.75″N113°49′4.75″W / 52.2604861°N 113.8179861°W / 52.2604861; -113.8179861
Organization
Care system Medicare
Hospital type General, Teaching
Affiliated university University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Services
Emergency department Yes
Beds345
Helipad TC LID: CRD3 [1]
History
Founded1904
Links
Website http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/facilities.asp?pid=facility&rid=1000342

Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre is a medical facility located in Red Deer, Alberta. Alberta Health Services is responsible for the operations of the hospital. [2]

Red Deer, Alberta City in Alberta, Canada

Red Deer is a city in central Alberta, Canada. It is located near the midpoint of the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor and is surrounded by Red Deer County. It is Alberta's fourth most populous city – after Calgary, Edmonton, and Lethbridge. The city is located in aspen parkland, a region of rolling hills that is home to oil, grain, and cattle production. It is a centre for oil and agriculture distribution, and the surrounding region is a major centre for petrochemical production. With a recorded population of 100,418 in the Canada 2016 census, Red Deer became the third Alberta city to surpass 100,000 people.

Alberta Province of Canada

Alberta is a province of Canada. With an estimated population of 4,067,175 as of 2016 census, it is Canada's fourth most populous province and the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces. Its area is about 660,000 square kilometres (250,000 sq mi). Alberta and its neighbour Saskatchewan were districts of the Northwest Territories until they were established as provinces on September 1, 1905. The premier is Jason Kenney as of April 30, 2019.

Alberta Health Services (AHS) is the single health authority for the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Services

[2] The hospital is a Level 3 trauma center which allows for care of most severe trauma patients but have transfer protocols if the trauma is above their level of care they can provide. They will stabilize these patients and then take the patient to a level 1 trauma center in Edmonton or Calgary by STARS.

Transport

The hospital is located within a 1-hour service radius of the STARS air ambulance service from both the Calgary and Edmonton base sites. [4]

Education

The hospital serves as a training centre for multiple professions. The University of Alberta trains residents in their Rural Alberta North family medicine program and rotate medical students on elective. [5] It is also a site for pharmacy resident training [6] and nursing student training from the Red Deer College. [7]

University of Alberta public research university in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president. Its enabling legislation is the Post-secondary Learning Act. The university is considered a “Comprehensive academic and research university” (CARU), which means that it offers a range of academic and professional programs, which generally lead to undergraduate and graduate level credentials, and have a strong research focus.

Funding

Philanthropic funding is directed by the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation. [8]

History

Red Deer Memorial Hospital

The Red Deer Memorial Hospital was constructed in 1904 as a memorial to three local men who had participated in the Boer War. Financial assistance was provided to purchase property at Red Deer Regional Hospital's current location. At the time it was the only hospital between Calgary and Edmonton. The original hospital was torn down for an auxiliary hospital in 1961. [9]

Name changes

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References

  1. ↑ Canada Flight Supplement. Effective 0901Z 15 August 2019 to 0901Z 10 October 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre | Hospitals & Facilities | Alberta Health Services". Albertahealthservices.ca. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  3. ↑ "Child and Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health Services - Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre | Programs & Services | Alberta Health Services". Albertahealthservices.ca. Archived from the original on 2013-03-20. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  4. ↑ "Where we serve - STARS Air Ambulance". Stars.ca. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  5. ↑ "Rural Alberta North Residency Program - Alberta Rural Family Medicine Network". Arfmn.ab.ca. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  6. ↑ "CSHP: Programs - Residency Training - CHPRB Accredited Programs - David Thompson Health Region, Red Deer Regional Hospital". Cshp.ca. 2012-11-01. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  7. ↑ "> Academic Departments > Nursing". RDC. Archived from the original on 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  8. ↑ "Red Deer Regional Health Foundation | Hospitals & Facilities | Alberta Health Services". Albertahealthservices.ca. Archived from the original on 2013-03-20. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  9. 1 2 "Red Deer Memorial Hospital, 1904 - The City of Red Deer". Reddeer.ca. 1904-05-26. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
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