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About UsThe Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, is a full-service pediatric hospital and leading centre for complex cardiac care and research in North America. It is one of 14 hospitals managed by Capital Health, Canada's largest academic health region, providing complete health services to over 1.6 million people.

The Stollery is affiliated and housed with the University of Alberta Hospital and the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute. It is a referral centre for all specialized pediatric health services, including open-heart surgery, organ transplantation, cancer care, critical care and emergency services. Each year, the Stollery receives over 137,000 patient visits—children and adolescents from throughout Western Canada, the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut. Approximately 40 percent of the Stollery's patients come from outside the Capital Health region. Almost 25 percent of those patients are referred from other provinces, territories or countries.

Specialty pediatric services

The Stollery provides a full range of pediatric services, including:

(For medical terms see:
WORD! A Glossary of Medical Words (KidsHealth)
Medical Encyclopedia (Medline Plus))

Staff

The Stollery's staff is comprised of a highly skilled team of physicians, surgeons and researchers, including almost 200 pediatric specialists and subspecialists. In addition, the hospital employs over 1,100 pediatric health care professionals, including nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, critical care nurses, audiologists, speech-language pathologists, child-life specialists, clinical dietitians, social workers, rehabilitation professionals (occupational therapists, physical therapists), psychologists and pastoral care workers.

Specialized patient transport

The Stollery provides pediatric critical care transportation to carry critically ill children by ground and air to the hospital. Pediatric or neonatal intensive care unit transport teams accompany these young patients. A regional transport office manages the transportation, moving 1,100 children in and out of the Stollery each year.

Affiliations

The Stollery Children's Hospital promotes research, education, best practice and evidence in children's mental health, and early childhood development through its affiliations with the

  • Local, provincial and national organizations and groups including the University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and other clinical faculties
  • Council on Early Childhood Development
  • Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research
  • Alberta Research Centre for Child Health Evidence
  • Cochrane Collaboration – Child Health section
  • Women's and Children's Health Research Institute of Edmonton
  • Early Childhood Measurement and Assessment Resource Centre (CUP)
  • Families First Edmonton
  • Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR)
  • Alberta Health Foundation for Medication Research (AHFMR)
  • Central and Northern Network for Child Health (CNN)
  • Southern Alberta Children and Youth Health Network (SACYHN)
  • Canadian Association for Pediatric Health Centres (CAPHC)
  • Canadian Institute for Child Health
  • Canadian Health Network (CHN)
  • Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
  • Canadian Pediatric Society (CPS)
  • ... and many more

 

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