Alberta Children's Hospital
| Alberta Children's Hospital | |
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Alberta Children's Hospital
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 Location of Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary
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| Geography | |
| Location | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Coordinates | 51°04′28″N 114°08′53″W / 51.074444°N 114.148056°WCoordinates: 51°04′28″N 114°08′53″W / 51.074444°N 114.148056°W |
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| Care system | Public Medicare (Canada) |
| Hospital type | Specialist |
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| Emergency department | Yes |
| Helipad | TC LID: CAC6 |
| Speciality | Pediatric hospital/Pediatric trauma centre |
| History | |
| Founded | May 19, 1922 |
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| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH) is the largest public hospital for sick children in the prairie provinces, and is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is operated by Alberta Health Services - Calgary Health Region. The new facility opened on September 27, 2006 and is the first free-standing pediatric facility to be built in Canada in more than 20 years. It was originally opened on May 19, 1922 as the Junior Red Cross Children's Hospital. 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, Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton, 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 of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver and IWK Health Centre in Halifax).
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.
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