Acute Care

Alberta Health Services offers a comprehensive range of acute care services across the province at 102 hospitals, and numerous emergency departments, urgent care centres and outpatient clinics. Acute and specialized care is available to all Albertans, regardless if your community has a hospital.

Acute care services provide necessary and active short term treatment of a serious injury or illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery. Care is provided by teams of health-care professionals skilled in a broad range of medical and surgical specialties. Treatment may require a short stay in an emergency or urgent care centre, admission to a hospital, the assistance of diagnostic services, surgery, or follow-up outpatient care in the community.

Emergency care

Emergency provides access for patients of all ages suffering from life threatening to minor conditions. Emergency is not a first-come, first-serve system. Critical patients are attended to first.

Hospitals

Hospitals treat sick and injured persons needing medical or surgical treatment and provide other health assessment and treatment services.

Urgent care centres

Medical facilities for people who have unexpected but not life-threatening health concerns that require same-day treatment. People with life-threatening conditions should go immediately to an Emergency Department or call 911.

Search for health facilties in your area

The following nine geographical areas are intended to help you navigate and locate facilities in your local area and do not represent official zones within Alberta Health Services.

Click on any of the following links below to view hospitals and health facilities in your area.

Calgary
The Calgary area contains hospitals and health facilities in the city of Calgary and surrounding centres such as Banff, Claresholm, High River and Sundre.

Central & Red Deer
The Central and Red Deer area contains hospitals and health facilities in the city of Red Deer and surrounding centres such as Camrose, Drayton Valley, Innisfail and Drumheller.

Edmonton
The Edmonton area contains hospitals and health facilities in the city of Edmonton and surrounding centres such as Devon, Fort Saskatchewan, Leduc and Redwater.

Northeast
The Northeast area contains hospitals and health facilities in major centres such as Fort McMurray, Slave Lake, Cold Lake and Westlock.

Northwest
The Northwest area contains hospitals and health facilities in major centres such as High Level, Peace River, Grande Prairie and Fox Creek.

Southeast
The Southeast area contains hospitals and health facilities in major centres such as Bassano, Brooks, Consort and Medicine Hat.

Southwest
The Southwest area contains hospitals and health facilities in major centres such as Cardston, Lethbridge, Picture Butte and Taber.

Yellowhead Corridor East
The Yellowhead Corridor East contains hospitals and health facilities in major centres such as Lamont, Lloydminster, Sherwood Park and Tofield.

Yellowhead Corridor West
The Yellowhead Corridor West area contains hospitals and health facilities in major centres such as Jasper, Edson, Evansburg and Hinton.