Addiction Centre - Adolescent Program

Service targeted to teens aged 13 to 21 with substance abuse and mental health issues and involves the family or other people important to the adolescent.
Services include:

• assessment
• treatment
• referrals

Addiction Centre - Adult Program

Services provided include:

• assessment, treatment and referrals

• care may include individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, couples therapy

• group therapy is a major component of this program

Adult Day Program - Addiction and Mental Health

Offers a program which includes the following components:

• psycho-education groups
• skill development to enhance individuals’ abilities to manage current and future addiction and/or mental health concerns
• individual therapy
• multidisciplinary team support (nursing, social work, occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatry)

Adult Gender Clinic

This clinic provides:

• comprehensive assessment regarding gender identity
• treatment of co-occurring mental health concerns (e.g. mood and anxiety related to gender)
• education and support regarding social transition (e.g. family, work, legal document changes)
• referrals to access hormones and / or surgery required for transition

Adult Neuropsychology Service

Patients are seen for many areas of neurologic illness/injury, including:

• stroke/traumatic brain injury
• tumour, hydrocephalus
• seizure disorder
• multiple sclerosis/movement disorders
• toxic and metabolic encephalopathy
• dementia

Adult Psychosis Program

Service offers:

• diagnosis and management of psychotic disorders
• support and treatment of any existing mental health issues
• support for transitions to primary care provider or community psychiatric clinic
• research
• education for health providers

Advanced Venous Access Service

A specialty service that assesses and insert Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters to provide access for intravenous therapies including (but not limited to) hydration, antimicrobial, chemotherapy and parenteral nutrition.
Provides people with long-term intravenous (IV) therapy:

• assessment and insertion of PICC
• consultation
• education, problem solving and resource for healthcare providers related to Cental Venous Access Catheters
• follow-up care and maintenance

Alberta Blood and Marrow Transplant Services

Offers care and support for people having an allogeneic or autologous blood and marrow transplant.

Alberta Health Services eSIM Provincial Simulation Program

Simulation is a training technique which enables learners to practice and master individual and team skills to improve patient safety and enhance the quality of care.

With simulation a range of scenarios can be practiced from road traumas, to situations in hospital or home care settings. It supports all types of learning from developing or enhancing technical skills to working as a member of a team to improving communication skills. Simulation also offers the opportunity to assess individuals within a safe environment without risk to the patient.

The eSIM program supports training for physicians and staff involved in the delivery of care to patients in Alberta using 2 primary services:

• Simulation Practice Readiness Centres (PRCs)
  These training facilities are designed and equipped to recreate virtually any care environment and are located at multiple sites in Alberta
• Mobile Simulation
  Specialized vehicles and a variety of portable equipment is used to support educators who do not have access to a PRC.

For more information about eSIM visit our website.

Alberta Thoracic Oncology Program

This program works to make sure people with lung cancer get faster access to treatment through special rapid access clinics in Edmonton and Calgary. The program seeks to reshape cancer care in Alberta by improving the patient journey and outcomes and standardize care delivery across the province.

Alberta Trauma Services

Services provided may include:

• sending patients to the hospital that can best help them
• assessment, resuscitation, and treatment
• rehabilitation
• helping patients return to their community
• trauma education
• injury prevention education
• trauma research
• data collection for the Alberta Trauma Registry

This service cares for people from Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories depending on location.

For more information visit our webpage.

Amputee Rehabilitation Clinic

The goal of this service is to assist the patient in achieving the best possible recovery and the highest level of independence and function. This would be done through:

• addressing proper wound care and limb management.
• increasing an individual's strength, flexibility, coordination and endurance
• optimizing prosthetic management
• coordinate rehabilitation with the community partners (e.g. Community Accessible Rehabilitation)
• consultation is also offered to people who are thinking about having an elective amputation.

Anaesthesia Services

This service provides:

• anaesthesia for surgery;
• anaesthesia for diagnostic imaging and oncological procedures;
• acute relief of pain after surgery;
• treatment of chronic pain

Anticoagulation Management Services

Services include:

• coordinating laboratory testing
• dosing decisions for anticoagulation medicine
• education

The service is in communication with the patient’s primary care doctor.

Apheresis Clinic

Offers assessments and apheresis treatment, including:

• separating blood cells to take out harmful blood parts (plasma exchange, and white blood cell and platelet depletion)
• collecting stem cells for blood cell transplants
• red blood cell exchanges
• photopheresis (using light to treat blood)
• client and staff education
• advice to other healthcare agencies

Arterial Blood Gases / Cooximetry

This service offers:

• diagnostic tests and results
• urgent critical care test to assess respiratory failure
• diagnosis and assessment of acute and chronic lung disease to outpatients
• authorization or re-authorization of AADL funding to clients on oxygen

Atrial Fibrillation Clinic

This cardiac service provides:

• management of patients with atrial fibrillation and/or atrial flutter
• patient education

Patients are discharged from the clinic once their condition has been stabilized by medication.

Audiology Services

Community Audiology provides the following services (not all services are offered at each site):

• diagnostic hearing assessments for all ages (ABR for infants younger than 6 months)
• hearing screening
• oncology (baseline / monitoring) hearing assessment
• vestibular (VNG/VEMP)assessments (ENT/Neurology referral required)
• cochlear implant (CI) candidacy assessments and intervention/follow-up for adults 18 and older

This service does not provide / sell hearing aids, however candidacy and information about where to obtain hearing aids is provided post hearing assessment.

Brain Injury Rehabilitation Clinic

Typical concerns include memory and cognitive changes, speech changes, emotional changes, and physical sequelae.

Bronchoscopy Services

Provides service to assess the upper and lower airways to help diagnose lung diseases.

Burn Treatment Services

Provides treatment and rehabilitation of burn injuries.

Includes:

• surgical grafting and graft revisions
• major plastic repairs

Cafeteria Services

Cafeteria services offer food and beverages at Alberta Health Services facilities. Catering services and vending machines are available at some sites. Each cafeteria services site team is dedicated to creating great food, inspiring healthy eating, and providing outstanding customer service to support the health of Albertans.

**Please note hours of operation may vary from site to site.

Cafeteria Services - Garden Deli Grill

Offers fresh food that people can buy at AHS hospitals and facilities. Vending machines are also available.

Cafeteria Services - Garden Deli Walkway

Offers fresh food that people can buy at AHS hospitals and facilities like:

• breakfast foods including hot cereal, paninis, scones, muffins, fresh fruit, yogurt
• Starbucks coffee
• lunch foods including hot entrees, soups, sandwiches, salads

Cafeteria Services - Good Earth Cafe

Offers fresh food that people can buy at AHS hospitals and facilities. Vending machines are also available.

Cafeteria Services - Timberline Cafe

Offers fresh food that people can buy at AHS hospitals and facilities like:

• breakfast foods including hot cereal, eggs, paninis, scones, muffins, fresh fruit, yogurt
• coffee
• lunch and supper foods including hot entrees, soups, sandwiches, pizza, sushi, salads

Calgary Brain Injury Program

The program offers the following for patients and their families:

• central triage for Alberta Health Services funded brain injury rehabilitation programs and services
• education and updated information about resources for brain injury

This program also provides information, education, and resources to healthcare providers working across the continuum of care from acute to community rehabilitation.

For more information, visit the Calgary Brain Injury Program website.

Calgary Breast Health Program

Services offered in the program include:

• comprehensive, multidisciplinary care for suspected and confirmed breast cancer management (seen within 2 weeks)
• breast surgeon clinic(s) for the assessment and treatment of patients with benign imaging ( seen < 16 weeks)
• breast surgeon clinic(s) for the assessment and treatment of patients with suspicious clinical exam, benign pathology or abnormal imaging (seen in <12 weeks)
• diagnostic assessment unit (DAU) for rapid assessment and diagnosis of radiologic breast abnormalities (seen within 3-4 weeks)
• breast health expert physician clinic for assessment and treatment of select benign breast conditions (seen within 6 months)
• consultation for patients at a higher risk of developing breast cancer due to family history or biopsy findings (dependant upon referral)
• education classes (on hold) for women with breast cancer (pre op, post op care), at average risk, and for certain benign breast conditions

The health team includes:

• surgeons for diagnostic assessment and surgical treatment of benign breast conditions, suspected and confirmed breast cancer
• family physician and breast health expert for assessment and treatment of select benign breast conditions
• oncologist provides consultation for patients at high risk of developing breast cancer due to family history or biopsy findings
• nurse navigators with expertise in breast health who provide information, answer questions about tests, surgery, treatments and options for care

For more information visit our webpage.

Calgary Epilepsy Program

Services offered may include:

• assessment and treatment of all forms of epilepsy
• new anticonvulsant drug trials
• epilepsy surgery
• vagal nerve stimulation
• education for patients and their family
• psychological counselling

Cardiac Arrhythmia Central Access and Triage

Service may include:

• treating symptomatic heart rhythm abnormalities that don't need a pacemaker or defibrillator
• cardiac electrophysiology central referral, triage, assessment, treatment, and education
• Telehealth and on-site education classes for patients and families
• interventional electrophysiology procedures including EP studies and ablations

Cardiac Catheterization Lab

Services include:

• cardiac emergencies
• diagnostic cardiac angiography
• interventional cardiac angiography
• structural heart diagnostics
• structural heart intervention

Cardiac Diagnostics - Hospital Sites

NOTE: Services listed below may not be offered at all locations. Contact the location to receive details on their service offerings.

Services provided include:

Electrodiagnostics

• Electrocardiograms
• Holter Monitors
• Event recorders
• Stress testing
• Blood pressure monitors

Nuclear Cardiology

• Myocardial perfusion imaging
• MUGA
• Cardiac CT angiopraphy and calcium scoring
• 99m Technetium-Pyrophosphate Imaging (for ATTR Cardiac Amyloidosis)

Echocardiograms Transthoracic Echo

• Transesophageal Echo
• Contrast Echo
• Stress testing
• Pericardiocentersis
• Cardiac biopsies

Cardiac Function Clinic

The Cardiac Function Clinic (CFC) is a multidisciplinary clinic dedicated to the support of Heart Failure (HF) patients who have complex care needs that require close monitoring and/or medication optimization .
Care offered includes ongoing physical assessment, management of medical and non-pharmacological treatments, and patient teaching regarding diet, lifestyle and medication management.

Cardiac Implantable Electrical Device (CIED) Clinic

Offers regular follow-up care to make sure pacemakers and ICD's are working properly, and to watch for any other heart-related problems.

Cardiac Intensive Care / Coronary Care Units

Conditions include but are not limited to:

• acute myocardial infarction
• acute coronary syndrome
• heart failure
• cardiac dysrhythmias

Medical cardiology patients needing the following will be limited to the CICU at the Foothills Medical Centre:

• IABP therapy
• pulmonary artery catheter monitoring
• mechanical ventilation
• STEMI patient post-primary or rescue PCI within the first 4 hours of the intervention
• Impella ventricular assist device
• targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest

Cardiac Procedures Central Referral (CPCR) Office

A referral service for people who need to see a cardiologist.

Cardiac Surgery Referral

Coordinates and schedules open heart cardiac surgeries.

Cardiology Fellows Clinic

Provides assessment, treatment or referral of people with known or suspected heart issues by our cardiology trainees under the supervision of a staff cardiologist.

Cardiovascular Surgery

Service includes:

• Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (Unit 94 CVICU): care right after heart surgery, ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)
• Cardiovascular Surgery Inpatient Unit (Unit 91): stepdown area, dysrhythmia, defibrillation, chest tube removal, inotrope administration, temporary pacemakers

Cashier Services

Cashier services performs financial transactions, including the acceptance of payment for patient fees.

Cast Clinic

This service provides:

• assessment, treatment and follow up of orthopedic injuries
• may involve application and removal of casts, braces or other orthopedic devices
• offers follow up by an orthopedic surgeon or family doctor with an interest in orthopedics

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Services

This service offers mental health assessment and treatment for children with serious emotional, behavioral, and / or psychiatric problems that can't be treated in the community, day patient, or outpatient settings. The service also involves the child's family.

Service provides:

• psychiatric assessment
• short-term psychiatric stabilization

All admissions are determined in any of the emergency departments in consultation with psychiatry/mental health staff

Chronic Cough Clinic

Provides care and support to people whose cough is not being caused by a health condition, but is still affecting their everyday lives.

Chronic Pain Consult Service

The chronic pain consult team:

• assesses patients and recommends treatment options for the attending physician to implement
• provides recommendations for the family physician upon discharge
• educates patients regarding how to manage their chronic pain in the community after discharge from hospital
• provides education to health care professionals

Computed Tomography

Computed tomography, also known as "CT Scan" or "CAT Scan", is when pictures of the body are taken using radiation and computer-enhanced imaging.

Consultation Liaison Service - Mental Health

The Consultation Liaison Service utilizes a multidisciplinary approach for assessment and treatment of medical inpatients with co-existing psychiatric concerns that are impacting implementation of the treatment plan. Upon receiving a consult, the team initiates the assessment process and reviews the patient with an attending psychiatrist.
Patients may receive supportive therapy and behavioural management throughout their stay. Once discharged, the service may make community resource referrals and follow-up.
Consultation is offered to unit staff regarding behavioural and psychiatric interventions while patients are on the unit.

Cystic Fibrosis Services - Adult Outpatient

Provides assessment, treatment, and follow-up services to adults with cystic fibrosis.

Testing to see how well your lungs are working (spirometry) can be done at the clinic.

Day Medicine

Services may include:

• administration of blood products
• IV therapy
• medication infusions
• therapeutic phlebotomy
• recovery from approved diagnostic interventions dependent on site

Dental Clinic - Adult

This service also provides:

• emergency dental treatment
• biopsy of hard and soft tissue
• IV sedation or nitrous oxide as needed
• consultation with periodontist, endodontist, or oral maxillary surgeon if required

Diabetes in Pregnancy Clinic

Provides:

• teaching, counselling, and monitoring for pregnant women who have diabetes or have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes
• pre-pregnancy counselling and monitoring for women with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes who are thinking about getting pregnant

Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program

Alberta's Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program is a provincial screening program that identifies permanent hearing loss as early as possible in a baby's life. This ensures that babies and families receive timely follow-up and support sooner to optimize developmental outcomes.

Services include:

• Screening babies for hearing loss by 1 month of age
• Diagnosing permanent hearing loss by 3 months of age
• Ensuring access to intervention by 6 months of age

For more information, visit our website

Early Pregnancy Assessment

This service provides:

• confirmation of miscarriage for women under 12 weeks gestation including diagnostic investigations
• information and options for expectant, medical, or surgical managment of an incomplete miscarriage (under 12 weeks gestation)
• psychosocial support and education for miscarriage

For helpful information and support resources, visit our Early Pregnancy Assessment Program website or see our grief support program information on the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Program website.

Echocardiography

Echocardiography uses ultrasound to study the structure and function of the heart, including blood flow through the heart and its valves.

Electroencephalography Service

An EEG test is a measurement of the electrical activity of the brain. It takes approximately 60-90 minutes and is performed by a technologist and then interpreted by a neurologist. The test involves the placement of electrodes on your scalp, there is no pain or discomfort involved. We ask that you arrive for your appointment with clean hair with no mousse, gels or hairspray.

Electromyography Service

The test involves low electrical stimulation of the nerves using electrode stickers or may involve a thin needle to be inserted directly into a muscle which records the electrical activity in that muscle. Testing is performed by a doctor who is assisted by a technologist.

Emergency Room Outreach Team - Mental Health

The Psychiatric Emergency Room Outreach (ERO) Team and Psychiatric Outreach Response Team (PORT) offers timely community-based follow-up to clients who are referred by psychiatric emergency services. ERO and PORT are mobile teams, able to meet with client by phone and at times at their homes, allowing them to effectively address client needs.

The services offer emotional or mental health support, intervention and problem solving, education and information for well-being, referral to other services, and clinical follow-up. Clients is in need of further mental health support, will be connected to a longer term service.

Emergency Services

If you have an emergency, call 911.

Emergency departments:

• take care of people that are very sick or injured on a priority basis. This means the sickest people are seen first. If you go to an emergency department for care that isn't urgent, you will not likely be seen right away.
• provide medical care, which includes assessment and treatment
• stabilize people and get them ready to transport to a higher level of care facility (if needed)
• provide follow-up care including referrals to a family doctor or specialist (if needed)

Emergency Department wait times are now available for Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Red Deer.

Get the right care when you need it, to learn more visit Know Your Options

This service may be impacted by the COVID pandemic. View the Hours of Operations to see if the location has been impacted. Visit https://ahs.ca/covid for up-to-date information.

Emergency Services - Child and Adolescent Mental Health

This service provides:

• assessments for children and teens with mental health concerns
• consultations with families
• recommendations to doctors about admissions and/or community support
• discharge planning and counselling for children and teens in the hospital
• short-term follow-up for clients once they have been discharged

See Eligibility field for information on who is eligible for this service.

Alberta Children's Hospital has a Mental Health Inpatient Unit.

Endoscopic Ultrasound Services

This service offers specialized endoscopic ultrasounds for staging tumours of the esophagus, stomach, pancreas, biliary system, and rectum.

Endoscopy/Colonoscopy Services

Offers endoscopy procedures for gastrointestinal concerns, which may include:

• endoscopy
• colonoscopy
• sigmoidoscopy
• esophageal motility study
• endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) Foothills Medical Centre and Peter Lougheed Centre only
• double balloon enteroscopy (DBE) Foothills Medical Centre only

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) service works to implement standardized patient care pathways related to nutrition intake and mobility after surgery, pain and nausea control, and fluid intake management. We engage patients and make them part of the team by involving them in preparation for their surgery and post-operative recovery. By helping patients stay strong, we can improve outcomes, reduce complications and create a better patient experience.

Before surgery:

• patients are taught to minimize time without fluids or food
• patients are taught about what to expect after surgey and health activities to practice that will help them recover
• medications for pain, nausea, infection, and blood clot prevention are given based on best practice evidence

During surgery:

• management of pain, nausea and fluids is provided
• techniques are applied to reduce surgical stress response (minimally invasive surgery, employ blocks or freezing to prevent pain signals from setting off fight or flight /stress response)

After surgery:

• evidence promotes less use of or early removal of lines, drains, tubes and urinary catheter removal
• better outcomes through drinking, eating, gum chewing, moving and walking
• improved pain, nausea and surgical complication rate

For more information, visit the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) website.

Evoked Potential Service

An Evoked Potential (EP) is an electrical potential recorded from the nervous system in response to the presentation of a stimulus. The stimulus type may be visual, auditory or somatosensory. Each type of test takes 30-60 minutes and is performed by a technologist and then interpreted by a neurologist.

Fluoroscopy

Fluoroscopy is a real time x-ray like a video, which is used by physicians and staff to assist imaging throughout the body during exams.

Gastrointestinal Services - Outpatients

This service provides:

• assessment of gastrointestinal (GI) diseases or disorders
• treatment of GI diseases or disorders
• regular preventive monitoring of patients who have a family history of colon cancer
• patient education for GI procedures: colonoscopy flexible sigmoidoscopy, gastroscopy, esophageal dilatation, and others
• referrals to patient support groups: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Crohn's Disease

General Cardiology Clinic

This service provides comprehensive diagnostic, assessment, treatment and follow-up services within cardiology subspecialties.

General Medicine - Inpatients

Offers care on an inpatient basis including assessing, diagnosing, and treating many types of medical problems.

General Radiography (X-Ray)

General Radiography uses x-rays to produce images of the structures inside the body, particularly bones. X-ray beams can pass through the body, but they are absorbed in different amounts depending on the density of the material they pass through.

General Surgery - Inpatient

Provides inpatient care for people after surgery.

General Surgery Unit

Cares for people before and after general surgery procedures.

Gift Shops - The Red Thread

A hospital boutique featuring a wide selection of gifts, snacks and toiletries for sale. At The Red Thread Gift Shop your gift gives twice! Proceeds of sales support programs that focus on patient care and comfort as well as the purchase of new patient focused equipment.

Gynecological Surgery

Cares for women after they have had gynecology surgery (e.g., hysterectomy, bladder repair, for cancer).

Hand Clinic

This program provides assessment and treatment for injuries as recommended by the health care team.

Health Information - Access and Disclosure

In accordance with Alberta's Health Information Act, this is a service which enables the release of individually identifiable health information with or without the consent of an individual.

For detailed instructions, frequently asked questions and forms, please visit Access & Disclosure | Alberta Health Services.

Health Information / Records Management

Completes patient charts, collects data, data entry and coding, collects patient information, dictates notes, and transcribes inpatient and outpatient charts.

Heart Transplant - Southern Alberta Transplant Program

Provides assessment, listing on the organ wait list, and follow-up for heart transplant clients, including:

• assessing clients to see if they’re eligible for a heart transplant
• education about management options for clients with advanced heart failure or cardiac disease
• monitoring and management of clients while they’re being assessed for a heart transplant and while they’re on the cardiac transplant wait list
• caring for clients admitted to the hospital while waiting for a heart transplant
• caring for clients after the heart transplant surgery

Adults are followed through the Foothills Medical Centre and children are followed through the Alberta Children’s Hospital. The University of Alberta Heart Transplant Program works with both hospitals to follow clients.

Heart transplant surgery for all ages is done at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton.

For more information, see the Southern Alberta Transplant Program website.

Hematology - Inpatients

Provides care for people in the hospital with blood diseases, including leukemia.

Hemodialysis - Alberta Kidney Care - South

• Provides hemodialysis treatments (a process where the client's blood is passed through a special filter that removes waste products and water).
• Most people need 3 treatments every week. Each treatment lasts 4 hours.

Hepatology Clinic

Offers medical services for people with hepatitis, including:

• assessment
• diagnosis
• treatment
• follow-up
• education

Home Parenteral Therapy Program

Provides intravenous (IV) antibiotics at home. Healthcare providers teach clients and caregivers how to use an IV pump to give the antibiotics.

Hospitals

To access contact information and a list of services offered, select a hospital.

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Hostel Services

Changes due to COVID 19: No Shared Kitchens or Accommodations

Most rooms are 2-bedroom shared suites, which means potentially sharing the bathroom, living, and dining area if you have a roommate. We also offer 1-bedroom suites, which means you have the entire suite to yourself. All rooms are equipped with a mini fridge and a microwave oven. Each floor has a shared kitchen with a fridge, freezer, stove, microwave, coffee maker, and toaster.

The hostel is not wheelchair accessible and you must be able to go down 13 flights of stairs in case of a fire. This facility is for patients only. Caregivers are permitted with you in your suite for the duration of your stay.

Hydrocephalus Clinic

Services are offered to people who have been referred, by their doctor, to see a neurosurgeon. The neurosurgery team complete an assessment and decide if treatment is needed.

Follow up is also provided to patients, once their treatment is complete.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Clinic

Offers 100% oxygen at high atmospheric pressure to treat a specified list of conditions approved by Alberta Health and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta. This treatment increases blood oxygen levels, which can prevent tissue death, promote healing, and help fight infection.

ICU Recovery Clinic

The ICU Recovery Clinic is a rehabilitation clinic focused on helping people heal from difficulties associated with stays in the ICU. Common problems after ICU that people experience when they go home include difficulties with fatique, strength, sleep, mood, thinking and quality-of-life.

Indigenous Hospital Liaison Services

This program provides support and health information to healthcare providers, Indigenous patients / clients and their families through personal visits. Ask your healthcare provider for more information about Alberta Health Services policy to allow spiritual ceremonies.

Specifically, this includes:

• case management
• patient advocacy
• cultural teaching
• patient / client language interpretation
• health literacy support
• logistical support for discharge planning for Indigenous people

This service is available on-site in hospitals, public health centres and in the community. Upon request, staff can be present at hospital rounds, medical appointments and case conferences. This program will communicate with the healthcare team to ensure provision of culturally sensitive healthcare service.

Patient / client language interpretation service is also available upon request.

Patients and clients may also be asked about their healthcare experience to help ensure they receive the best possible healthcare.

Inpatient Geriatric Consultation Service

Provides consultation services for older adults with medical problems, including:

• planning how to care for patients in the hospital who need surgery and medical care
• help with managing medical problems of older adults
• discharge planning

Intensive Care Services - Critical Care Medicine

As part of the Critical Care Medicine Department, this service provides intensive care for all patients, including trauma and neurosciences.

Intensive Palliative Care Unit

Provides symptom management so patients can be discharged to the most appropriate setting for ongoing palliative care such as home or hospice.

Interventional Radiography / Angiography

Interventional Radiography is a sub-specialty of Diagnostic Imaging (radiology) that uses imag-guided procedures for both therapeutic and diagnostic Purposes. Interventional radiography can be done using x-ray, CT, Ultrasound or MRI images and are done to diagnose and treat disease in almost every organ system.

Angiography, which is a diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a radio-opaque dye and a specialized x-ray camera to take pictures of the blood flow in specific blood vessels (arteries or veins) or blood flow within the heart itself. Sometimes treatments are done during an angiogram.

Kidney and Pancreas Transplant - Alberta Kidney Care - South

Services include:

• assessment of eligibility and education for chronic renal failure patients interested in transplantation
• waitlist work-up for kidney and pancreas transplant surgery
• monitoring of patients on the kidney and pancreas transplant wait list
• kidney and pancreas transplant surgery
• monitoring and treatment patients after the transplant surgery

Children are cared for at the Alberta Children's Hospital.

See the following sites for more information:

• Southern Alberta Transplant Program
• Pediatric Kidney Transplant – Southern Alberta Transplant Program