Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH) is the largest public hospital for sick children in the

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, and is located in

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. It is operated by Alberta Health Services – Calgary Health Region. The new facility opened on September 27, 2006, and is the first free-standing

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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

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campus grounds and just across from the site of the Foothills Medical Centre. ACH is one of several children's hospitals in

(others being Hospital for Sick Children in

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in Montreal,

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in Edmonton, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine in Montréal,

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in Ottawa,

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, BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver and

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in Halifax).

Design

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. 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 from

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and southwestern

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. It is an accredited pediatric level I

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by the Trauma Association of Canada. Additionally, the ACH is the provincial expert and referral centre for bone marrow transplantation, and is the leader in

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(which is rapidly establishing itself as the national leader), for pediatric

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s. 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. 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.

Clinics

The facility operates 34

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s: *Asthma Clinic *Burns Clinic *Cardiology Clinic *Cystic Fibrosis Clinic *Dental Clinic *Developmental Clinic *Down Syndrome Clinic *Diabetes Clinic *Endocrine Clinic *Eye Clinic *Feeding Consultation Service *Gastro-Intestinal Clinic *Genetics Clinic *Haematology Clinic *Haemophilia Clinic *Infectious Disease Clinic *Inherited Metabolic Disorders *Myelomeningcele Clinic *Nephrology and Urology Clinic *Neurology Clinic *Neuromotor Clinic *Neuromuscular Clinic *Neuropsychological Service *Neuroscience Services *Neurosurgery Clinic *Orthopaedic Clinic *Perinatal Clinic *Plastics Clinic *Pulmonary Clinic *Refractory Epilepsy Clinic *Regional School Health *Respiratory Home Care Clinic *Rheumatology Clinic *Sleep Service Clinic *Vascular Malformation Clinic

References

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Design

Clinics

See also

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