Quick Facts

• Staff: 90,000
• Physicians: 10,000
• Volunteers: 13,000 
• Population served: 3.7 million Albertans over 661,848 square kilometres
• Acute care hospitals: 97 and 5 stand alone psychiatric facilities
• Acute care / subacute hospitals beds (including psychiatric facilities): 9,000 as of March 31, 2009 *
• Long-term care & supportive living beds / spaces (includes palliative beds): 19,300 as of March 31, 2009 *
• Addiction and Mental Health beds: approximately 1,500 as of March 31, 2009 *
• Urgent care centres: 5
• Emergency visits: 1.9 million
• Urgent care visits: 163,000
• Hospital discharges: 354,000
• Surgeries: 247,000
• Births: 50,000
• Lab procedures: 60 million
• MRI exams: 147,000
• CT exams: 419,000
• Home care hours: 10 million
• HEALTHLink calls: 900,000
• Cancer patient visits: 495,000
• Immunizations: 1.3 million to Albertans of all ages
• Albertans who saw a physician for mental health concerns: more than 500,000
• Albertans who received addiction treatment services: more than 36,000

Source:  AHS 2008/2009 Annual Report
* Bed numbers have been updated since the AHS 2008/2009 Annual Report

Updated:  March 5, 2010