Quick Facts
Annual Service Volumes (2011-12)
Primary Care
- 104,704 Home Care Clients
- 766,146 Health Link calls
- 393,964 EMS Calls/Events
Acute Care
- 2,029,191 Emergency Department Visits
- 196,137 Urgent Care Visits
- 376,115 Hospital Discharges
- 2,602,384 Total Hospital Days
- 50,099 Births
- 6.9 Days Average Length of Stay for Hospital Admission
Diagnostic / Specific Procedures
- 4,868 Total Hip Replacements
- 5,795 Total Knee Replacements
- 36,457 Cataract Surgeries
- 166,645 MRI Exams
- 334,614 CT Exams
- 70,512,921 Laboratory Procedures
Cancer Care
- 547,093 Cancer Patient Visits
- 48,421 Cancer Patients Receive Treatment, Care and Support
Addiction and Mental Health
- 19,251 Mental Health Hospital Discharges
- 209 Community Treatment Orders (CTO) Issued
Beds (as of March 31, 2012)
- 8,118 Acute care hospitals beds
- 525 Sub-acute in auxiliary hospitals
- 884 Psychiatric beds (stand alone facilities)
- 830 Addiction treatment beds
- 21,683 Continuing Care beds/spaces
- 181 Palliative & Hospice beds (outside hospitals)
- 514 Mental Health Community beds/spaces
General
- 91,500 direct AHS employees
- 7,600 staff working in AHS wholly owned subsidiaries such as Carewest, Capital Care Group and Calgary Laboratory Services
- 8,020 Physicians (this figure is the total physician count for Alberta both employed and independent physicians)
- 16,800 Volunteers
- 3.8 million Albertans over 661,848 square kilometres served
- 99 Acute care hospitals and 5 stand-alone psychiatric facilities
- 6 Urgent Care Centres
Source: AHS 2011-12 Annual Report
Notes:
Updated: July 12, 2011
