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Laboratory Services provides collection of blood and body fluids for tests ordered by your doctor or healthcare provider.
Healthcare providers should consult the Alberta Referral Directory for service referral information.
An estimated wait time will be provided at the time of appointment booking.
Wheel chair access available.
Monday: 8:00 am - 3:45 pm.Tuesday: 8:00 am - 3:45 pm.Wednesday: 8:00 am - 3:45 pm.Thursday: 8:00 am - 3:45 pm.Friday: 8:00 am - 3:45 pm.
Outpatient Collection site hours of operations:
Monday to Friday 8:00 AM - 3:45 PM
Walk ins accepted until 30 minutes before closing.
Closed Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory holidays.
Book your next lab appointment online or call Alberta Precision Labs provincial booking phone line at 1-877-702-4486.
Outpatient Collection Site and Testing.1280 Switzer Drive Hinton Alberta T7V 1V2
780-817-5002 (Lab)
780-817-5038
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https://www.albertaprecisionlabs.ca/
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Provides day procedures which include (by referral only):
-Consults and follow-up
-Hip & Knee Arthroplasty Program
Consults, excisions and follow-up
Dressing changes, removal of sutures and removal of drains
Iron Sucrose
Monoferric
IVIG
Blood Products
Long Term IV Antibiotics
No Referral Needed: Drop in Wound Clinic
There may be a fee depending on the type of service (e.g., charge for a new cast).
Closed on weekends and statutory holidays.
Cafeteria services offer food and beverages at Alberta Health Services facilities. Catering services and vending machines are available at some sites. Each cafeteria services site team is dedicated to creating great food, inspiring healthy eating, and providing outstanding customer service to support the health of Albertans.
**Please note hours of operation may vary from site to site.
Food is available for purchase.
Offers heart (cardiac) monitoring services which include:
Some communities may have limited service dates and times.
Closed statutory holidays. Provider schedules may vary.
Offers teaching and supports for patients and families to understand how best to lead an active and healthy lifestyle through focusing on diet, supervised exercise sessions, and other cardiovascular risk reduction activities.
Provides teaching and follow-up to people with a history of heart problems, including:
Offers teaching about heart disease and exercise, which includes these topics:
Physician referral is required. Contact family doctor or specialist to attend.
Open to people who have experienced a heart event (heart attack, stent, bypass surgery, heart valve surgery) in the last 6 months or have been diagnosed with heart failure.
CT Service is available by appointment only.
On call after hour for Stroke protocol.
Computed tomography, also known as "CT Scan" or "CAT Scan", is when pictures of the body are taken using radiation and computer-enhanced imaging.
A language line is available, but requests need to be made before tests are scheduled.
Cares for people after they have day surgery procedures. If you need to be admitted to the hospital after your procedure, your surgeon will tell you.
Contact your family physician for more information.
Wait times depend on the type of surgery you need. If you have questions, call your family doctor.
Hours of operations for Monday vary.
This service:
Week: 2 out of every 10 weeks Hours: 08:00 to 18:00 hours
The Mobile MRI visits the following locations: Hinton, Westlock, Cold Lake, Camrose and Lloydminster. Magnetic resonance imaging is a method of looking inside the body using magnetism and radio waves to produce clearer pictures of the head, spine, and other parts of the body. The MRI produces soft-tissue images and is used to distinguish normal, healthy soft tissue from diseased tissue.
Referral from physician required.
Wait times may vary as the Mobile MRI travels through each site. Please contact the site location for further information
Available by appointment only.
Your baby will be referred to Community Hearing Screening if:
A community screening site will call and offer a hearing screening appointment for your baby soon after their birth.
The results of your baby's hearing screening and any follow up needed will be shared with you.
Hearing screening is the best way to find out if your baby has hearing loss.
Hearing screening is quick, safe, and will not hurt your baby. Your baby's hearing is important for many areas of child and brain development. Hearing loss can delay your child's speech, learning and social skills.
For more information, visit our website.
All babies born or living in Alberta are offered screening for permanent hearing loss within 90 days of birth. It's best to have your baby's hearing screened before they are 1 month old. Newborn hearing screening is free. Additional eligibility requirements are based on your baby's age and health status. If your baby is born with bilateral aural atresia or presents with meningitis, they will be referred to Audiology Services for a diagnostic ABR assessment.
If you have an emergency, call 911.
Emergency departments:
Emergency Department wait times are now available for Calgary, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Red Deer.
This service may be impacted by the COVID pandemic. View the Hours of Operations to see if the location has been impacted.
Get the right care when you need it, to learn more visit Know Your Options.
We can’t predict how long you will need to wait in the emergency department. Patients are assessed (triaged) using a standard scoring system called the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) to see how urgent their health needs are.
Service available by appointment only
Fluoroscopy is a real time x-ray like a video, which is used by physicians and staff to assist imaging throughout the body during exams.
Service available, but must be arranged ahead of time
Offers care and treatment for health problems such as:
Contact healthcare centre for more information.
On-call service available 24-hours per day, 7-days per week.
General Radiography uses x-rays to produce images of the structures inside the body, particularly bones. X-ray beams can pass through the body, but they are absorbed in different amounts depending on the density of the material they pass through.
Provides day surgery for common procedures below:
Adults (18+)
Completes patient charts, collects data, data entry and coding, collects patient information, dictates notes, and transcribes inpatient and outpatient charts.
There is a fee for copies of health records.
The 3 station dialysis pod is open 3 days per week - Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Provides hemodialysis treatments (a process where the client’s blood is passed through a special filter that removes waste products and water).
Most people need 3 treatments every week. Each treatment lasts 4 hours.
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Laboratory Services provides collection of blood and body fluids for tests ordered by your doctor or healthcare provider including a comprehensive range of routine and specialized lab testing and clinical consultations:
Note: Some locations may not offer the full range of testing. To confirm availability of a specific test, contact the location.
Cleans acute and continuing care facilities according to standards set by Alberta Health and Wellness and Alberta Health Services (AHS) infection control.Services include:
Personal laundry fees in effect for long term care clients.
Mobile MRI service available by appointment only. Messages may be left 24 hours, 7 days per week.
MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields and radiowaves to form images of the body. The technique is widely used in hospitals for medical diagnosis, staging of disease and for follow-up without exposure to ionizing radiation.
Used for many exams, including: head, spine, heart, bone / joints, and abdomen.
Provides clean or sterilized items for use in patient care including:
The majority of teaching is one-to-one, however, group sessions may be offered to promote enhanced learning of clients. Nutrition information and resources can be found on Alberta health Services’ Healthy Eating Starts Here and at MyHealth.Alberta.ca
Additional Services:
In the Outpatient Dietitian Counselling program, families work one-on-one with a registered dietitian (dietitian) trained in Pediatric Weight Management. The dietitian will help the family work on healthy eating and active living habits and set realistic goals that focus on creating a healthy lifestyle. Areas of focus include nutrition, physical activity, sedentary time and sleep.
The dietitian and the family’s healthcare provider work together to ensure the family is supported in achieving their health goals. They can also assist in connecting the family with other supports as needed, such as physical activity, mental health, and community services.
The program’s aim is to help families achieve a lifestyle that promotes healthy growth and development in their children.
For more information visit the Outpatient Dietitian Counselling website.
Available to children ages 2-4 years with a Body Mass Index (BMI) above the 97th percentile and children ages 5 - 17 years with a BMI above the 85th percentile.
Provides care for pregnant women who are low-risk and more than 36 weeks, which may include:
Cares for babies and provides breastfeeding support if needed.
Go to a community health centre in your area for any prenatal concerns and follow-up after you deliver your baby.
For more information, visit the Prenatal website.
Some services and key providers may not be available at all locations.
Obstetric and gynecologist outpatient appointments.
Occupational therapists apply knowledge and skills to assess, collaborate with, empower, and enable clients to:
Occupational Therapy helps to solve the problems that interfere with a person's ability to do the things that are important to them.
Homecare Occupational Therapy services are only available to Alberta residents. Outpatient services may have out of province client restrictions. Contact site for further information.
Fees may apply for some services, call for more information.
Serving the community with emergent, urgent and elective surgery offered to pediatric and adult patients. Urgent / emergent surgical cases are done by scheduled evening staff, 7 days a week. Patients are monitored before being transferred back to the inpatient or day surgery units.
Procedures may include:
Surgeon arranges date with booking clerk who will call you with the surgery date.
Pre-admission visits are arranged by the OR Booking Office as are surgical dates. The pre-admission visit is normally completed 1-2 weeks prior to surgery and the visit may be by phone or at the pre-admission clinic in the hospital dependent on patient medical condition and type of surgery planned.
Some procedures may not be covered by Alberta Health Care.
This Clinic provides appointments for people referred to see an Orthopedic surgeon and for follow up appointments with the surgeon after surgery.
Service including:
Provide services as follows:
Adult patients
Service offers diagnostic procedures, including:
Not all services are offered at all locations.
Services for the care and treatment of children up to 16 years by general practitioners and specialists. Children who need specialized services are referred to the appropriate service.
A doctor must refer.
Children up to age 16.
Our Pediatric Clinic offers the following services:
Pediatrician specialist visit, prescriptions, specialized assessments and referrals to other designations as needed(such as respiratory). Follow up appointments.
6 months
Collaborates and interacts with healthcare service providers to provide clinical services and medications to patients in hospital and long-term care facilities.
a doctor's prescription is needed.
Rehabilitation service to help restore maximum function and independence through:
Services may be available at outpatient hospital clinics, community health centres, patient's homes and continuing care / long term care centres.
Waiting period is dependent on resources available at site as well as triage priority.
Fees may apply.
The following services are also offered:
Pediatric and adult patients.
Primary Stroke Centre Emergency Departments are linked to Comprehensive Stroke Centres via TeleStroke for immediate consultation with a stroke neurologist. This specialist can view the patient and the CT images remotely. This allows real-time two-way assessment and management of stroke patients without having to be transported first.
Working with the Emergency Department doctor, the stroke neurologist can assess if the patient needs a clot-dissolving medicine to limit the effects of an acute stroke. They can also determine if the patient is a candidate for clot removal (Endovascular Thrombectomy - EVT) which is performed at the Comprehensive Stroke Centres.
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) transport to the nearest Primary or Comprehensive Stroke Centre in rural regions to improve timely accessibility for advanced stroke treatment.
Emergency Department staff in Non-Primary Stroke Hospitals/Centres know the criteria for the immediate transfer of stroke patients to the nearest Primary or Comprehensive Stroke Centre.
Patients presenting with suspected acute stroke symptoms, stroke symptoms upon waking or high-risk TIA
Patient Registration registers:
Please call for hours as they vary depending on the availability of the respiratory therapist.
Services include:
Physician Order Required for all but education, Tobacco Cessation.
Can be a physician order, or a respiratory Requisition form. Submitted via fax
Waiting period can be 1 - 8 weeks
Provides healthcare in schools.
Students in school.
Services provided:
Eligible Clients include:
These services include:
Service available by appointment only.
Ultrasound is an imaging test that captures images of soft tissue organs, blood vessels and tissues using high-frequency sound waves (no radiation). Ultrasound is also known as sonography.
Not all tests are offered at all sites. Call the location for more information.
Consults with Internal Medicine for further assessment and treatment for:
Referrals must go to Dr. Yoland Westra in Grande Prairie for triage then wil be sent to the clinic to book.
Booked based on urgency and when the visiting specialist is available to travel to the Northwest Health Centre.
Clinics are offered 3 days per month, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM. Call for further information.
Services provided include:
Provides immunizations for babies and young children.
Services include information about:
New mothers are also offered postpartum depression screening.
For more information please visit Immunize Alberta.
