Highest Priority Needs

Highest Priority Needs

Every year, more than 100,000 children need the Alberta Children’s Hospital. Thanks to an incredibly generous community they are able to receive life-saving, life-changing care from world-leading specialists right here at home.

Working together, the Alberta Children’s Hospital, the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute and the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation identify and prioritize initiatives that will have the greatest impact for children and their families.

Innovation

Brain Computer Interface

Children living with conditions such as a stroke, spinal cord injury or cerebral palsy can suffer from severe limitations in their mobility and capacity to communicate.

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Advancing Care & Research

Cures Begins With Research

An exceptional team of specialists have committed to advancing knowledge, finding gentler treatments and discovering cures.

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Care in the Community

Hospital At Home

To help ease some of hardship of treatment, community support is enabling specialists to provide a whole new level of family centred care through Hospital at Home – the first program of its kind for children in Canada.

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Care in the Community

Saving Sight for Babies

Pre-term babies are at high risk of developing a serious eye disorder that can lead to blindness without timely intervention.

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Advancing Care & Research

Innovations in Epilepsy

Who we are and who we can become are rooted in the brain. In childhood, the brain is at peak potential for learning and development, yet it is also in its most vulnerable stage.

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Advancing Care & Research

Emerging Adult Mental Health

As Calgarians rallied to create a new Centre for Child & Adolescent Mental Health, the need to support an equally vulnerable Emerging Adult population became evident and urgent.

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Advancing Care

Complex Care Clinic

For many children, their relationship with the Alberta Children’s Hospital spans their entire childhood and involves many experts and clinics.

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Family Centred Care

Rotary Flames House

Whether measured in years, months, weeks or days, Rotary Flames House helps make the most of every child’s life. And sadly, while not every child can be saved, they can all be cherished.

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Care in the Community

Kid-focused Care

Hospitalization is stressful for everyone – perhaps even more so when it involves a child. To help reduce the anxiety and potential trauma that can be associated with serious sickness and injury, the hospital provides specially designed programming and resources for young patients and their families.

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