University of Alberta Hospital

Name :

University of Alberta Hospital

Address  :

8440 - 112 Street

Town  :

Edmonton

State  :

Alberta

Country  :

CANADA

Post Code:

T6G 2B7

Phone  :

780 407 8822

Fax  :

780 407 7418

Web URL  :

Email  :

Specialization
  • Dentistry
  • ENT
Facilities

Total Number Of Beds : 650


Description

Capital Healths University of Alberta Hospital is one of Canadas leading clinical research and teaching hospitals treating more than 700000 patients annually from across western and northern Canada

About Us
Located on the University of Alberta campus the UAH is also home to the Stollery Childrens Hospital This quothospital within a hospitalquot concept allows the two facilities to share resources and equipment while meeting the specialized needs of each patient population

With over 650 beds the two facilities offer a wide range of diagnostic and treatment services for both adults and children including specialized services within cardiac sciences neurosciences surgery medicine renal critical care emergency and trauma care and a stateoftheart burn unit

Based at the UAH Capital Healths organ and tissue transplant program is recognized as a national leader in both success rates and transplant volumes Providing support to the transplant and surgery programs is the University Hospitals Comprehensive Tissue Centre one of only two fully accredited multitissue banks in Canada
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