Capital Health provides cardiac services across 13 hospital sites, including the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute. Cardiac programs and services currently housed at the University of Alberta Hospital will move into the adjacent Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute in May, 2008.
Capital Health has a proud history of excellence and innovation in cardiac science including:
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Canada's first successful open-heart surgery at the University of Alberta Hospital
Nancy's Story: A Pioneering Prairie Girl
In 1958 Nancy Smith became one of Alberta's first open-heart surgery recipients... "I was what they called a 'blue baby'," the gracious senior recalls. "I was born with two holes in my heart and a heart murmur."
more... - Canada's first aortic valve replacement with a mechanical valve at the University of Alberta Hospital
- Western Canada's first successful heart transplant at the University of Alberta Hospital
- First remote monitored pacemakers in Canada implanted in patients at Grey Nuns Hospital and Royal Alexandra Hospital
- First percutaneous transcatheter valve replacement in Canada at the Stollery Children's Hospital and University of Alberta Hospital
- Achieved a record-breaking 54 heart transplants in 2005, making Edmonton the busiest heart transplant centre in the country
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