Ideas and input of all stakeholders, including patients and families, are welcome:

• Submit Your Ideas
• Patient Engagement

Network Leadership

• Dr. Jim Stone
  Senior Medical Director
• Shelley Valaire
  Senior Provincial Director
• Balraj Mann
  Executive Director
• Dr. Colleen Norris
  Scientific Director
• Dr. Christiane Job McIntosh
  Assistant Scientific Director
• Agnes Lehman
  SCN Manager

Membership

To see who is involved check out our core membership list

Newsletters

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2018

• June

Archived

• December 2014
• June 2014
• February 2014

Articles

• Heart Failure COPD Pathway Innovation Learning Collaborative
• Lethbridge Cardiologist Launching Book on Heart

News Releases

Alberta's stroke teams slash time to diagnose, treat patients March 6, 2017
Provincewide improvement initiative reduces average ‘door-to-needle’ time by half

• ACS Provincial Order Set
• Alberta Vascular Risk Reduction Community Pharmacy Project (RxEACH)
• Complex Chronic Diseases: Heart Failure & COPD Clinical Pathways: Full Bundle
• Endovascular Reperfusion Alberta (ERA)
• Stroke Action Plan (SAP)
• Stroke Competency Framework for Health Care Providers
• Vascular Risk Reduction (VRR)
• Vascular Risk Reduction Resources

Project Storyboards

• Endovascular Therapy
• Perform Evaluation & Rhythm Follow-up Optimization with Remote Monitoring (PERFORM)
• Stroke Action Plan (SAP)
• Vascular Risk Reduction
• Quality Improvement & Clinical Research (QuICR)

Stories

• Stroke program has rural Albertans covered May 30, 2019
  Farming family grateful for integrated approach to care
• Stroke ambulance starts treatment when it can do the most good
  The call came in from a health facility hours away from Edmonton’s University of Alberta Hospital

Videos

• STEMI (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction) Reperfusion Orders set and Rural Transfer Guidelines
  For use in all emergency departments to assist health professionals and physicians to make better and quicker decisions for patients having this type of heart attack. If you are a health professional,, learn more about this order set by viewing a recording. If you’re a physician, you may receive continuing medical education credits. You can access these orders through the Provincial Forms site using form number CH-0454.
• RxEACH Study
  See how community pharmacists help patients reduce their risk of heart disease and stroke with the RxEACH study (The Alberta Vascular Risk Reduction Community Pharmacist Project) Patients benefited with reduced heart attack and stroke risk, improved blood pressure and blood sugars, and reduced cholesterol and tobacco use.
• Heart Failure in Primary Care | Dr. Justin Ezekowitz
  Dr. Justin Ezekowitz is on faculty as a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, Director of the University of Alberta Cardiovascular Research Institute, and Co-Director of the Canadian VIGOUR Centre at the University of Alberta. He is a cardiologist at the University of Alberta Hospital and Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute. His research and clinical focus is on heart failure. He is involved in numerous clinical trials in heart failure as a site investigator, and on the steering or executive committee for several multicenter international trials. He is also involved in the design leadership and implementation of several investigator-initiated trials funded through governmental and non-governmental research agencies. In addition, he works with population health, registry-data and other data sources on clinically applicable research using advanced data analytics around health system change and disease risk. Video link.

Websites

• Alberta Screening and Prevention Project
• Canadian VIGOUR Centre
• Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta
• Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta
• Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute

• Improving Door-to-Needle Times for Acute Ischemic Stroke – Research Paper (AHA Journal)
• PRIHS and CRIO overviews
• PERFORM study
• Smart-e-Pants Innovation for Pressure Ulcer Prevention

Getting Involved

• Patient Engagement in Support of Strategic Clinical Networks