| Alberta Children's Hospital | |
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 Alberta Children's Hospital | |
  Location of Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary | |
| Geography | |
| Location | 28 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 | PublicMedicare (Canada) |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes,Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center |
| Beds | 150[1] |
| Speciality | Pediatric hospital/Pediatrictrauma centre |
| Helipad | TCLID:CAC6 |
| Public transit access |   |
| History | |
| Opened | May 19, 1922; 103 years ago (1922-05-19) (as Junior Red Cross Children's Hospital) |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH) is achildren's hospital located inCalgary,Alberta,Canada and operated by theCalgary Health Region ofAlberta Health Services.
It originally opened on May 19, 1922 as theJunior Red Cross Children's Hospital.[2] Its current building, opened on September 27, 2006, is the largest children's hospital in theprairie provinces and was the first free-standingpediatric facility to be built in Canada in more than 20 years.[3] It is located west of theUniversity of Calgary campus grounds and across from the site of theFoothills Medical Centre.
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.[4]
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 fromsouthern Alberta, southeasternBritish Columbia and southwesternSaskatchewan. It is an accredited pediatric level Itrauma centre by the Trauma Association of Canada.[5] Additionally, the ACH is the provincial expert and referral centre for bone marrow transplantation, and is the leader inWestern Canada (which is rapidly establishing itself as the national leader), for pediatricneurosciences. 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.[6]
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.[7]
The facility operates 34clinics:[8]
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