When it officially opens its doors on September 27, 2006, the new Alberta Children’s Hospital will offer state-of-the-art healthcare services to children of all ages throughout
The new hospital, which cost $253 million to construct, will include such features as:
· Operating rooms with ability to:
o accommodate interoperative MRI capabilities, and
o handle minimally invasive SMART technology
· Dedicated telehealth/teleconferencing room
· Human Simulator room for hands-on, real time training for internal and external staff
· Full digital image reading to allow remote conferencing and faster electronic access to images in OR’s and other critical care clinical areas.
From outdoor healing gardens and play spaces to a larger Emergency department and in-room patient sleeping accommodation, the new hospital will provide a warm and child-friendly environment and will accommodate the growing population it serves. The vision was to build a world-class paediatric health care facility, combining state-of-the-art technology with family-centred care, research and education. From all accounts, this new facility has hit every target.