The Royal Alexandra Hospital
The Royal Alexandra Hospital is one of Canada’s most important teaching and research hospitals. It provides primary, secondary and tertiary (high-risk) care to patients in Edmonton, central Alberta and all across Canada’s vast northwest. Staff at the Royal Alexandra Hospital deliver more babies, perform more surgeries and treat more heart patients than anywhere else in the region.
Providing decades of high-volume care means the the Royal Alexandra Hospital has also evolved into a hub of teaching, research and innovative medical breakthroughs. For example, the hospital’s cardiology team pioneered radial arterial access angioplasty, a method of inserting a tiny tube through the wrist to treat heart blockages instead of open heart surgery. This groundbreaking technique has since been adopted by cardiac facilities around the world by surgeons who have trained at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. The recently formed Centre for Advancement of Minimally Invasive Surgery (CAMIS) has made the Royal Alexandra Hospital the Canadian leader in minimally invasive surgery.
Having this wealth of expertise and services available on the Royal Alexandra Hospital promises to multiply the impact of the Lois Hole Hospital for Women.
Did you know?
The Royal Alexandra Hospital...
- cares for more than 450,000 patient visits annually
- is one of Canada's busiest emergency departments, with more than 63,000 visits per year
- delivers 33% of the region’s babies, and 60% of all twins, triplets and multiple births in the region
- is one of North America’s leading neo-natal intensive care facilities, serving as many as 55 critically ill newborns from across Western Canada and the Northern Territories at any one time
- is one of Canada’s busiest surgery departments, performing 28,000 procedures a year, 31% of those performed in the region
- has Western Canada’s only Regional Eye Centre, with 30,000 patient visits a year