The Grey Nuns Community Hospital is an

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hospital located in the

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area of south

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. The Grey Nuns Community Hospital provides a full range of services including a 24-hour

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. The 14-bed tertiary palliative care unit is known for its delivery of care and teaching practices. The hospital traces its roots to the

Grey Nuns The Sisters of Charity of Montreal, formerly called The Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal and more commonly known as the Grey Nuns of Montreal, is a Canadian religious institute of Roman Catholic religious sisters, found ...

of Montreal who sent Sister Emery (Zoe LeBlanc), Adel Lamy and Alphonse (Marie Jacques) to the Edmonton area in 1859.

Main services

The Grey Nuns Community Hospital offers a wide range of services. *

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and

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and Cardiac Care *Family medicine *internal medicine *Children's Health *

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*Diagnostics *

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Gender clinic

Lorne Warneke Lorne Baird Warneke (November 16, 1942 – August 28, 2020) was an Alberta-based psychiatrist and advocate for LGBT, 2SLGBTQ+ people in Canada. He founded the first Canadian gender identity clinic at Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton, Albe ...

opened the first gender identity clinic in Canada at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital in 1996, where he served as medical director until retiring in 2017. Warneke was a major advocate for transgender rights and played an important role in getting Alberta Health Services to cover

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in 1984, and again in 2010.

References

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