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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