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.

Prevention and Promotion

Preemie Prevention

Alberta has one of the highest rates of preterm birth in the country. That means babies in our province are at higher risk of complications that contribute to impaired brain development, physical disability and neonatal death.

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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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Advancing Care & Research

New Cures for Childhood Cancer

Brain cancers, relapsed leukemias and cancers that start in the bone or soft tissue account for 60-70% of all childhood cancers. They are also the highest cause of death for young people facing a cancer battle.

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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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