Quick Facts

Here are a few quick facts about Alberta Health Services - Capital Health that you might find interesting.

• With 30,000 employees (including our partner organizations), we are the largest employer in the province.
• We work with over 2,600 physicians and offer services in 13 hospitals that together have over 2,300* beds.
• Our budget amounts to $2.6 billion.
• We provide services for over one million residents in the Edmonton area, and are a major referral centre, providing specialized services to a total of 1.7 million people from central and northern Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, eastern British Columbia and western Saskatchewan.
• In 2006/07 fiscal year, we handled:
  • 435,990 emergency visits
  • 119,852 hospital discharges
  • 94,483 surgeries
  • 15,365 births
  • 423,903 Health Link Alberta calls
  • 824,220 diagnostic imaging exams
• Each month, we provide home care service to almost 10,000 per month clients across the region.
• We offer continuing care services such as respite care, day programs and palliative care programs.
• We operate 22 public health centres.
• And we also contract more than $324 million worth of services in areas such as community care and physiotherapy, surgical clinics, lab services and home care.
  

* Acute care beds funded as of March 31, 2007; actual numbers in operation at any time will vary due to fluctuations in patient volumes, service changes, staffing constraints, etc.

Updated – December 6, 2007