Capital Health

Consistently rated a leading health system in Canada by the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI), Capital Health is Canada's largest academic health region and the leading medical and health sciences center for Western Canada. As one of Alberta's nine regional health authorities Capital Health is one of the province's largest employers with approximately 29,000 employees. Capital Health is an integrated care model with emergency and acute care hospitals, specialized services, community health centres and clinics, and public health programs.

The Capital Health Link, operating 24 hours per day, seven days a week, is a telephone health advice call centre staffed by registered nurses to assist the general public. We offer continuing, respite, and palliative care services as well as educational, prevention, and rehab programs. We operate 22 public health centres, 4 specialty clinics, and 9 community mental health clinics. Additional services are contracted in areas such as community care and physiotherapy, surgical clinics, lab services, and home care.

Capital Health is home to Canada's busiest heart and lung transplant centre, western Canada's only pediatric liver transplant centre, and is western Canada's prairie referral centre for cardiac care. The planned Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute (target completion 2007) will place Edmonton firmly on the map as a cardiac centre of excellence. As home to the latest technologies and world-class facilities, we maintain a strong focus on education, training, and world-renowned research. Strategic partnerships with the University of Alberta and other post-secondary institutions strengthen the education and training of health professionals, and the recruitment and support of leading researchers.

Our facilities include:
University of Alberta Hospital and the Stollery Children's Hospital (650+ beds), Royal Alexandra Hospital (678 beds), Grey Nuns Community Hospital (267 beds), Misericordia Community Hospital (259 beds), Sturgeon Community Hospital (80 beds), Leduc Community Hospital (54 beds), Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital (240 beds), the Northeast Community Health Centre, Alberta Hospital Edmonton (410 beds), Devon General Hospital (21 beds), and the Fort Saskatchewan Health Centre (32 beds), Evansburg, Redwater and Westview Health Centres.

New technologies are transforming the health system by improving patient care, advancing new treatments, and offering better health management tools. netCARE, Capital Health's Electronic Health Record, stores patient information in a secure environment and allows caregivers in hospitals, public health centres, physicians' offices and other facilities to work together to provide the best care. In 2004/5, the Capital Health Link received 416,600 calls. Our hospitals handled 427,000 emergency visits, 112,000 hospital admissions, 90,000 surgeries, and 13,530 births. Each month, we provide over 215,000 hours of home care service to more than 9,000 clients across the region. Visit www.capitalhealth.ca for more information about Capital Health.