Acute Geriatric Unit

Offers assessments and treatments (including rehabilitation) to help older adults with medical problems become independent again. Families are encouraged to be part of the care planning process.

Alberta Trauma Services

Services provided may include:

• sending patients to the hospital that can best help them
• assessment, resuscitation, and treatment
• rehabilitation
• helping patients return to their community
• trauma education
• injury prevention education
• trauma research
• data collection for the Alberta Trauma Registry

This service cares for people from Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories depending on location.

For more information visit our webpage.

Anaesthesia Services

This service provides:

• anaesthesia for surgery;
• anaesthesia for diagnostic imaging and oncological procedures;
• acute relief of pain after surgery;
• treatment of chronic pain

Anesthesia Technical Services - Child Health

Provides support in the hospital, which includes:

• helping the anesthetist in all areas of the hospital that anesthetic may be needed
• maintains and fixes anesthetic machines and other related equipment in the operating room
• helps with flexible bronchoscopy procedures
• maintains inventory of all anesthesia-related supplies and equipment
• helps train respiratory therapy students

Augmentative Communication and Educational Technology Service (ACETS)

Provides three streams of service:

• clinician-to-clinician consultation
• assessment and recommendations regarding augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools and strategies
• assessment and recommendations regarding alternate access

Does not assume a primary therapy team role. ACETS requires active participation from the client's community therapy team (e.g., therapist, family, educator, school team member).

ACETS (Augmentative Communication and Educational Technology Service) is an assessment center to assess for funding eligibility through Alberta Aids to Daily Living (AADL) Speech Generating Communication Devices (SGCDs) Benefit Area. For details on the SGCD Benefit Area, please refer to the Alberta Aids to Daily Living (AADL) website.

Brain Injury Program

Services provided include:

• assessment
• clinical care
• treatment

Provides specialized investigation and quality rehabilitation services for children and families with mild, moderate and severe traumatic brain injury from the Emergency Department, through the hospital admission, and out into the community.

Burn Treatment Services

Provides treatment and rehabilitation of burn injuries.

Includes:

• surgical grafting and graft revisions
• major plastic repairs

Cafeteria Services - Coffee Bar

Offers fresh Starbucks coffee and food that people can buy at AHS hospitals and facilities.

Cafeteria Services - Mountain View Cafe

Retail Food Services is responsible for all in-house and third party operated consumer food and beverage outlets, vending machines as well as the provision of catering within Alberta Healthcare facilities. The Retail Food Services team is dedicated to providing high quality fresh food and beverages in a friendly manner at competitive prices.

Cafeteria Services - Tim Horton's

Offers fresh food that people can buy at AHS hospitals and facilities. Vending machines are also available.

Calgary Sexual Assault Response Team

CSART is a team of registered nurses, doctors and crisis counsellors who have specialized training and expertise to support people who have been sexually assaulted.

If you or your child has been sexually assaulted in the last 7 days ( 168 hours ), we can offer confidential services including:

1. medical treatment with no police involvement or
2. medical treatment with police involvement, forensic exam and evidence collection or
3. medical treatment, forensic exam, evidence collection and storage. You can have up to 1 year to decide if you want to report to the police

A crisis counsellor from Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse ( CCASA ) can provide emotional support and strategies for coping after a sexual assault, assess your immediate needs, and follow up with you if you choose.

For more information visit the Sexual Assault Response Team website.

Cardiac Implantable Electrical Device (CIED) Clinic

Offers follow-up care for patients with implanted cardiac devices.

Cardiogenetics Clinic

The consultation service begins with an assessment of a patient's personal and family history for features of a suspected condition. Genetic counselling is then provided to patients to communicate genetic risk information, explore options for genetic testing (if indicated), and discuss the benefits, risk, limitations of genetic testing for the patient and/or at risk relatives.

Examples of inherited cardiac conditions include long QT syndrome, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and many others.

Individuals and families referred may include pregnant couples, newborns, children or adults.

For the diagnosis or management of a cardiac condition, patients should be referred to cardiology.

Telehealth is available for Alberta residents.

For more information visit the Clinical & Metabolic Genetics website.

Cashier Services

Cashier services performs financial transactions, including the acceptance of payment for patient fees.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Services

This service offers mental health assessment and treatment for children with serious emotional, behavioral, and / or psychiatric problems that can't be treated in the community, day patient, or outpatient settings. The service also involves the child's family.

Service provides:

• psychiatric assessment
• short-term psychiatric stabilization

All admissions are determined in any of the emergency departments in consultation with psychiatry/mental health staff

Child Life Services

This service supports children and families by:

• teaching children and families about what to expect with medical procedures, surgeries, illness and hospitalization
• helping children build coping strategies for stressful procedures such as IV starts, bloodwork and MRI through education and medical play
• providing therapeutic interventions such as distraction, relaxation breathing, positions of comfort as part of child's coping plan
• coordinating safe play spaces such as unit playrooms, art studio, outdoor sports field
• providing developmental and therapeutic play interventions
• facilitating group programs and special events
• providing recreation and leisure education through recreational therapy programs
• offering therapeutic/expressive arts interventions through music therapy and art therapy

Children's Day Treatment Program

CDTP is voluntary program that provides the following:

• mental health assessment and treatment
• psychiatric consultation
• weekly family therapy
• structured group programming

Caregivers are expected to attend regular family therapy sessions and case conferences.

Children's Hospital Intestinal Rehabilitation Program

This program provides education and support for children, who are assessed by multidisciplinary team, who have intestinal failure. For example, children who require intravenous nutrition to survive.

Clinical and Metabolic Genetic Services, South

The Clinical Genetics team provides genetic assessment, screening, diagnosis, genetic counselling, and treatment (when available).

The Inherited Metabolic team provides diagnosis, lifelong treatment, monitoring, education and support for individuals and families impacted by metabolic conditions.

Both services focus on patient and family centred care and, as well, are actively involved in research to best support quality care for patients and families.

For additional information related to the specific services offered by Clinical Genetics Subspecialties please search directly for;

• Cardiogenetics Clinic
• General Genetics Clinic
• Genetic Connective Tissues Disorders Clinic
• Hereditary Cancer Clinic
• Inherited Metabolic Disorders Clinic
• Neurogenetics Clinic
• Prenatal Genetics

Genetic outreach centres, located in Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Red Deer, have genetic counsellors available to see patients and families closer to home. In cases where a geneticist MD is required, a geneticist from Calgary travels monthly to all sites to provide medical genetic consultations.

For more information visit the Clinical & Metabolic Genetics website.

Community Pediatric Asthma Service

Non-urgent referrals for asthma education. In person or virtual education appointments for children and their families with mild to moderate asthma that includes a customized Asthma Action Plan for every patient. A breathing exercise (simple spirometry) for children 6 years of age and older will be scheduled as required.

Complex Airway Clinic

Provides multidisciplinary specialty care for children and adolescents with tracheostomies or other complex airway needs (i.e. dependent on non-invasive ventilation or other airway appliances for > 18 hours a day) including:

• care and management of the child’s tracheostomy, including pre-tracheostomy consultation and decision-making support
• care and management of any underlying respiratory condition(s)
• support for the child’s ongoing growth & development
• support for families caring for a child with complex airway needs

Support provided in collaboration with local home care, community & school based teams where available.

Visit the PEAS (Pediatric Eating and Swallowing) website to find relevant information for families and care providers of children with an eating, feeding and swallowing disorder.

Complex Care Program - Ambulatory

Complex Care Program Ambulatory (CCP-Amb) is a stream that provides comprehensive support for patients who receive care in the hospital, community, or at home. The CCP-Amb team is composed of care coordinators and family resources specialists, who help patients and families with accessing and navigating the health care system and the resources and services they need. The service includes pediatric care coordination, which is a patient and family-centered, assessment driven, team-based activity designed to meet the needs of children and youth while enhancing the care giving capabilities of families and care teams. The CCP-Amb partners, alongside the referring care team, to coordinate care and addresses interrelated medical, social, developmental, educational, and financial needs to achieve optimal health and wellness outcomes for patients and families.

Services include:

• collaborative goal-setting
• care coordination across community and ACH
• care planning support
• link to other specialty resources
• support for transition between care settings
• information sharing with family, care providers, school, community, and others
• navigating between stakeholders, identifying needs, and next steps with families
• explore community activities
• improve family access and supports
• medical monitoring and information sharing

The team does not assume a primary care / therapy team role. CCP-Amb requires active participation from the patient’s care team(s) (e.g., social work, physician, family, school team).

Complex Pediatric Rehabilitation Team

When a significant change in function or health status occurs, some families have difficulty accessing healthcare services for their child due to unstable or unpredictable medical, psychosocial, sensory or engagement factors.

Our services include:

• collaborative goal-setting
• comprehensive assessment and recommendations
• intensive patient / family-driven rehabilitation intervention
• care planning support
• link to other specialty resources
• staff education and coaching
• support for transition between care settings

Computed Tomography

Computed tomography, also known as "CT Scan" or "CAT Scan", is when pictures of the body are taken using radiation and computer-enhanced imaging.

Day Surgery Unit

Cares for people before and after general surgery procedures.

Diabetes Insulin Pump Therapy Clinics

Provides support for people of all ages with type 1 or type 3 diabetes who want to start using an insulin pump. An insulin pump is a device a person wears instead of giving daily insulin injections. It is portable and can be programmed. It’s about the size of a pager and delivers fast-acting insulin through a small tube that is put under the skin. The site has to be changed every 2 to 3 days.

For more information, please visit: Diabetes Insulin Pump Therapy | Alberta Health Services

Early Childhood Rehabilitation Services

Complex medical and/or service needs including:

• complex neuro-developmental concerns impacting daily life or;
• an acute change in function and/or medical instability or;
• significant regression of skills or;
• significant risk for deterioration of functioning

Goal-focused rehabilitation may include:

• screening, informal / formal assessment,
• parent / caregiver education sessions,
• direct teaching / coaching,
• individual and / or group sessions,
• equipment support,
• support with accessing community-based resources

Intervention is provided through a hybrid model including virtual health, phone and in-person appointments based on clinical/family needs. ECR does not provide home-based intervention. Based on clinical need, a child may access support from an occupational therapist, physiotherapist, speech language pathologist, child development specialist, registered dietitian, social worker and / or therapy assistant. ECR requires parents / caregiver readiness to actively participate in intervention sessions. With support, parents / caregivers will identify a functional goal and will be coached on how to carry-out rehabilitation recommendations in the home and community.

Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program - Diagnostic Assessment

This test is called a diagnostic ABR assessment and is used to rule out or confirm hearing loss.

With your consent, the health care provider who completed your baby' s hearing screening test will refer your baby for a diagnostic ABR assessment. Diagnostic ABR assessments are available across the province at select sites in larger city centers. The nearest AHS Audiology Service site will call you to make an appointment when they receive the referral.

The results of your baby's diagnostic ABR assessment and any follow up needed will be shared with you.

A diagnostic ABR assessment is 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.

A diagnostic ABR assessment is recommended when a baby is at least 4 weeks of age.

For more information, visit our website.

Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Screening

With your consent, your baby's hearing screening will happen before your baby leaves the hospital. 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.

Emergency Services

If you have an emergency, call 911.

Emergency departments:

• take care of people that are very sick or injured on a priority basis. This means the sickest people are seen first. If you go to an emergency department for care that isn't urgent, you will not likely be seen right away.
• provide medical care, which includes assessment and treatment
• stabilize people and get them ready to transport to a higher level of care facility (if needed)
• provide follow-up care including referrals to a family doctor or specialist (if needed)

Emergency Department wait times are now available for Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Red Deer.

Get the right care when you need it, to learn more visit Know Your Options

This service may be impacted by the COVID pandemic. View the Hours of Operations to see if the location has been impacted. Visit https://ahs.ca/covid for up-to-date information.

Emergency Services - Child and Adolescent Mental Health

This service provides:

• assessments for children and teens with mental health concerns
• consultations with families
• recommendations to doctors about admissions and/or community support
• discharge planning and counselling for children and teens in the hospital
• short-term follow-up for clients once they have been discharged

See Eligibility field for information on who is eligible for this service.

Alberta Children's Hospital has a Mental Health Inpatient Unit.

Emily's Backyard

Provides short term child-minding for newborns to early teens. This is not a DayCare setting, therefore time slots are short term. Activities include:

• arts and crafts
• books
• toys and games

There is one childcare provider for every 4 children. Children younger than 2 and children that need extra care get one-on-one attention.

The longest a child can stay is 1.5 hours.

There are two EBY locations:

• Alberta Children's Hospital
• Child Development Centre

Evoked Potentials - Visual Service

Provides visual evoked potentials testing, which measures how long it takes for nerves to respond when they are stimulated.This service also Includes visual evoked response (VER) or visual evoked potential (VEP) testing.

Family and Community Resource Centre

Services for patients and their families located within this Centre include:

• family library
• child and youth interactive media program (CHIMP)
• family support specialists
• gifts in kind
• well on your way transition program
• family to family connections
• patient and family centred care (PFCC)
• child and youth advisory council
• Emily's backyard
• indigenious liaison
• spiritual care
• the Sacred Space

For more information visit our website.

Family Support Specialists

Provides information, resources and support services to children who are in care:

• an inpatient
• clinic patient
• child development service
• critical care patient
• emergency department

Visit our website for information on the supports and information provided.

Family to Family Connections

Family Peer Mentor Volunteers are trained to provide:

• one to one peer support to families experiencing a new diagnosis, an upcoming procedure
• other events related to a child's health concern or disability

The Family Peer Mentors are:

• parents who are available to listen
• share their experiences
• direct people to information and resources that have been helpful to them
• trained and are vetted through AHS Volunteer Resources, Alberta Children's Hospital

The Family Peer Mentors do not give medical advice. Connections are monitored by the F2FC Coordinator who is available to address any questions and provide ongoing support.

Fluoroscopy

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.

General Genetics

An appointment is with a clinical geneticist and/or genetic counsellor, depending on the reason for referral.

Telehealth is available for Southern Alberta residents.

A consultation may involve:

• a review of the patient and / or relevant family members’ medical and family histories
• a physical examination of the patient, and possibly relevant family members such as parents and siblings
• investigations, such as medical imaging and blood work for genetic testing or other indications
• referrals to other medical specialists
• genetic counselling to provide patients and their family members with information about the specific genetic condition that they have or are at risk for
• genetic counselling to support patients and their family members in making informed decisions about testing and screening options
• genetic counselling to identify additional family members who may benefit from a genetic assessment.

Ward consults are provided at all tertiary hospitals by the geneticist is on call 24 / 7 in Calgary and Edmonton.

For more information visit the Clinical & Metabolic Genetics website.

General Radiography (X-Ray)

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.

General Surgery - Inpatient

The patient is admitted to a general surgery inpatient unit for one or more nights.

Genetic Connective Tissues Disorders Clinic

The consultation service begins with an assessment of a patient's personal and family history for features of a suspected condition.

Genetic counselling is then provided to patients who meet the criteria, to share genetic risk information, discuss the benefits, risk, limitations of genetic testing if indicated and available for the patient and / or at risk-relatives.

Examples of connective tissue disorders include Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Stickler syndrome, and many others.

Individuals and families referred may include pregnant couples, newborns, children or adults.

For more information visit the Clinical & Metabolic Genetics website.

Gift Shops - The Red Thread

A hospital boutique featuring a wide selection of gifts, snacks and toiletries for sale. At The Red Thread Gift Shop your gift gives twice! Proceeds of sales support programs that focus on patient care and comfort as well as the purchase of new patient focused equipment.

Health Information / Records Management

Completes patient charts, collects data, data entry and coding, collects patient information, dictates notes, and transcribes inpatient and outpatient charts.

Hearing Clinic

In addition to hearing assessments, rehabilitation services are also provided by a multidisciplinary team. Children with sensorineural, mixed or conductive hearing loss are assessed and a plan is made for follow-up which may include tests, surgery or referral out to the community.

Hematology - Inpatients

Provides care for people in the hospital with blood diseases, including leukemia.

Hemodialysis, Pediatric - Alberta Kidney Care - South

Provides hemodialysis for children in kidney failure.

Hereditary Cancer Clinic

This clinics service goals are to facilitate cancer management decisions, and recommend optimal screening and cancer prevention strategies for affected individuals and high risk families.

The consultation service begins with an assessment of a patients' personal and family history for features of hereditary cancer syndromes.

Genetic Counselling is then provided to patients who meet the criteria, in order to share genetic risk information, discuss the benefits, risks, limitations of genetic testing (if indicated for the patient and/or at-risk relatives), and to discuss recommendations for cancer management and surveillance.

Telehealth is available for Alberta residents.

For more information visit the Clinical & Metabolic Genetics website.

Home Nutrition Support Program - Pediatrics

Education, support and monitoring of Pediatric clients up to age 18 years who receive feeding by a feeding device (NG, NJ, G-Tube or GJ tube) in their home.

A multidisciplinary team who work together to assist families and caregivers in managing a child's tube feeding at home.

In addition to education and support, the program provides regular review and follow up of:

• Client nutritional requirements and growth
• Formula, equipment and supply needs
• Oral feeding review
• Management of tube site issues

This program provides service to Calgary area clients including, north to Red Deer and South to the Alberta border.

Visit the PEAS (Pediatric Eating and Swallowing) website to find relevant information for families and care providers of children with an eating, feeding and swallowing disorder.

Hospitals

To access contact information and a list of services offered, select a hospital.

Search through a complete list of progams and services, or hospital and facility information with the following:

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Indigenous Hospital Support Services

What we can do:

• support Indigenous

Patients incorporate their traditional and spiritual practices during their hospital stay. We recognize all faiths and can connect you with the appropriate support you may need.

• help the patient and their family feel comfortable in the hospital and provide support during the hospital stay
• translation services
• make referrals on/off reserve. Provide resource/contact information on Indigenous specific resources
• smudging
• coordinate use of ceremony room
• help plan and support the patients discharge from the hospital
• cultural consultation
• consult with healthcare providers about Indigenous centred practices and care
• advocate for the patient and their families

Interventional Radiography / Angiography

Interventional Radiography is a sub-specialty of Diagnostic Imaging (radiology) that uses imag-guided procedures for both therapeutic and diagnostic Purposes. Interventional radiography can be done using x-ray, CT, Ultrasound or MRI images and are done to diagnose and treat disease in almost every organ system.

Angiography, which is a diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a radio-opaque dye and a specialized x-ray camera to take pictures of the blood flow in specific blood vessels (arteries or veins) or blood flow within the heart itself. Sometimes treatments are done during an angiogram.

KidSIM Pediatric Simulation Program

KidSIM offers:

• education and training for healthcare providers
• education and training for post-secondary healthcare students
• education and training for rural providers through mobile education
• education and support for families and non-clinical care providers
• simulation and debriefing courses for healthcare providers
• simulation elective and fellowship

For more information visit our website at kidsim.ca

Laboratory Services

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:

• blood and body fluid sample collection
• biochemistry and toxicology
• electrocardiogram (ECG)
• genetics and genomics
• urinalysis
• transfusion medicine
• hematology
• coagulation studies
• microbiology
• public health testing
• serology
• surgical pathology
• cytopathology
• autopsy pathology
• student practicum training for medical lab technologists and medical lab assistants

Note: Some locations may not offer the full range of testing. To confirm availability of a specific test, contact the location.

APL Booking Line: 1-877-702-4486 or book online.

Long Term Survivor Clinic

Services offered include:

• Promotes health and wellbeing of survivors
• Education of patients and families on the potential long term and late effects of treatment (chemotherapy, radiation, surgery) for their childhood cancer
• Provides education to primary care givers on the late effects of childhood cancer treatment
• Screens patients for late effects of therapy based on treatment exposures
• Screens for disease recurrence and secondary malignancies
• Provides access to dietary consult for long term survivors
• Provides access for psychological therapy and neuropsychological assessment for long term survivors

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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.

Mainstreaming: Hereditary Cancer Program

The Mainstreaming Hereditary Cancer Program is a partnership between oncology and surgery clinicians and the Hereditary Cancer Clinic, coordinated by the Mainstreaming Hereditary Cancer Clinic Hub. We aim to provide timely access to appropriate hereditary cancer genetic testing for individuals with cancer.

• orientation is required to enable clinicians to order Mainstreaming hereditary cancer testing.
• Oncology teams discuss and offer multigene panel testing for hereditary cancer for appropriate individuals.
• clinician and patient support resources are available in print and online, to support informed choice and understanding of results. The option of consultation with a genetic counsellor pre- or post-test is available by request.
• results disclosure is via the Hereditary Cancer Clinic genetics team.

Metabolic Genetics

Provides life-long management of metabolic disorders for infants, children and adults.

Participate in education, training and research and collaborates with other centres and programs to foster leadership and excellence in this field.

A metabolic geneticist is on call 24 / 7 in Calgary and Edmonton.

For more information visit the Clinical & Metabolic Genetics website.

Movement Assessment Centre, C.H. Riddell

Assesses and measures an individual's movement (typically walking) using a variety of motion analysis technologies including motion capture and high speed video (frequently referred to as clinical gait analysis). Interpretation of motion analysis data is used to:

• assist in clinical decision making
• quantify the effects of an intervention

Clients may have various underlying diagnoses including cerebral palsy, stroke, brain injury or other
neurological or muscular problem that results in complex gait and movement patterns requiring advanced assessment technologies.

Assessment and recommendations require specific and measureable clinical questions that are best-answered by motion analysis.

Neonatal Intensive Care

The service includes:

• level ll neonatal intensive care available at Foothills Medical Centre, Peter Lougheed Centre, South Health Centre, Rockyview General Hospital
• level III neonatal intensive care available at Alberta Children Hospital, Foothills Medical Centre
• care for high-risk babies needing close monitoring and support after birth
• referral to perinatal follow-up for high-risk newborns
• referrals to the neonatal transitional care team in the community as needed

Southern Alberta Neonatal Transport Service (neonatal transport team serves southern Alberta) only available at the Foothills Medical Centre

Nephrology Clinic, Pediatric - Alberta Kidney Care - South

Medical services including consultation, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care for children with disorders of the kidney and urinary tract.

Services provided:

- end stage renal disease clinic:

• peritoneal dialysis
• hemodialysis

- kidney transplant clinic

- chronic kidney disease clinic

- cystinosis clinic

- blood pressure monitoring and analysis; including 24 hour outpatient blood pressure assessment

- combined nephrology / rheumatology clinic

- combined nephrology / urology clinic

- prenatal consultations for renal and urinary tract abnormalities in the unborn child

- rural outreach general nephrology clinics to Medicine Hat and Lethbridge

Neurodevelopmental Disorder Program

The NDD stream provides comprehensive support for patients and families who receive care in the hospital, community, school, or at home. The NDD team is composed of care coordinators, who help patients and families with accessing and navigating the systems and services they need. Care coordination includes patient and family-centered, psycho-social assessment driven, team-based activity designed to meet the needs of children and youth. The NDD partners, alongside the referring care team, work collaboratively to coordinate care and address interrelated medical, social, developmental, educational, and financial needs to achieve optimal health and wellness outcomes for patients and families.

Services Include:

• conduct needs assessment and set priorities
• care coordination across community and AHS
• care planning support
• assist with self-management and self-advocacy / empowerment through education
• link to basic and specialty resources
• enhance accessibility and address disparities / inequities
• support for transition between care settings
• collaborate with family, care providers, school, community, and others
• navigate with stakeholders, identify needs, and next steps with families
• explore community activities and resources
• improve family access and supports
• medical, development, and mental monitoring and information sharing

The team does not assume a primary care / therapy team role. NDD requires active participation from the patient’s care team(s) (e.g., social work, physician, family, school team) and is not considered a discharge plan.

Neurogenetics Clinic

The consultation service begins with an assessment of a patient's personal and family history for features of a suspected condition.

Genetic counselling is provided to patients to explore applicable inheritance patterns and the benefits, risks, and limitations of genetic testing (if indicated) for both the patient and any at risk relatives.

Examples of neurogenetic conditions include Huntington's disease, myotonic dystrophy, hereditary spastic paraparesis, and ataxia among others.

For more information visit the Clinical & Metabolic Genetics website.

Nuclear Medicine

Clients swallow, inhale, or are given a needle with a radiotracer before their exam. Radiotracers go to a specific body part so the camera can take pictures. (tests may take a number of hours to complete; patients may be required to return later that day or the next day to complete exam).

Radiotracers are also given to treat diseases like thyroid disease.

Nutrition Counselling - Pediatric

Services provided for:

• optimizing growth
• allergy and food intolerances
• iron deficiency anemia
• inappropriate diets for age
• eating and feeding difficulties
• nutrient deficiencies secondary to restricted diets

Nutrition Counselling - Pediatric Weight Management

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.

Oncology - Inpatients

Offers care and treatment for people with cancer, including high-dose chemotherapy and pain relief.

Orthopedic Services - Inpatients

A multidisciplinary team provides care for orthopedic patients including:

• care for orthopedic trauma patients
• care for total joint replacements
• care for orthopedic spine patients
• cancer care for the orthopedic patient

For more information visit our website.

Outpatient Cancer Drug Benefit Program

Cancer drugs are provided, without charge, to registered Alberta cancer patients through specific locations in the province.

Please refer to the Alberta Health Services Cancer Drug Benefit Program.

Patient Email Well Wishes

As part of our support for patient care and comfort, friends and family of inpatients at hospital and health care facilities can send well wishes via email. Sites participating in the program will receive the message, will ensure that the message is only "well-wish" (any other type of communication will be deleted) and will arrange for delivery within 3 business days. A couple of important reminders - the electronic delivery system is not a secure connection, so please don't add any confidential information to your message. Plus the "well-wish" system does not allow for replies or confirm receipt / delivery confirmation.

Patient Food Services

Patient Food Services overarching objectives are to:

• Offer quality food and food choice, to support Patient Centered Care
• Work with the whole care team to ensure that Meals Matter
• Foster a positive meal experience that results in enjoyment of meals, as well as improved satisfaction and food intake that supports recovery
• Provide menus that are based on “Canada’s Food Guide” and that are adaptable for therapeutic requirements
• Offer appealing food that encourages eating for health
• Provide meal service styles appropriate to the patient population (e.g. tray service, dining room service) and meal delivery systems that support safe high quality food served at appropriate temperatures to the correct patient / resident

PFS delivers more than 31,000 patient/resident meals each day within AHS facilities.

Patient Information

Services offered:

• responding to patient location inquires
• providing direction on a patients whereabouts

Pediatric Acute Care Education

PACE focuses on pediatric simulation education and faculty development. PACE incorporates simulation technology run by pediatric emergency medicine and critical care educators. Learning takes place at The Alberta Children’s Hospital KidSIM Centre. PACE uses hands-on teaching using the latest evidence-based medicine to help healthcare professionals maintain their Pediatric Acute Care Education.

Courses offered:

• Pediatric Advanced Life Support Provider and Renewal (PALS)
• The Pediatric Airway Course (TPAC)
• Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition, and Stabilization Provider Course (PEARS)
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
• Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)
• Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC)

Pediatric Amputee Clinic

Provides care to children with amputations, limb deficiencies, or musculoskeletal syndromes needing amputation or prosthetic devices and their families. Care includes diagnosis, assessment, treatment, teaching and follow-up.

For information on juvenile amputations, go to Association of Children's Prosthetic-Orthotic Clinic's website. Multidisciplinary clinics take place once every two months, at the Alberta Children's Hospital.

Pediatric and Adolescent Complex Pain Clinic

The Pediatric Complex Pain Clinic provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, accessible outpatient service for the management of complex pain experienced by children and their families, focusing on goal attainment, self-management and overall functional improvement.

Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Clinic

The clinic provides both diagnosis, treatment (medical and surgical) and education for children and adolescents with gynecologic concerns such as:

• vaginal bleeding pre-puberty
• amenorrhae (no periods)
• menstrual bleeding concerns
• dysmenorrhea (pain with periods)
• fertility preservation and long-term gynecologic follow up in the setting of gonadotoxic therapy
• complex contraception
• ovarian cysts
• vulvovaginitis
• gynecologic anomalies
• gender care requiring IUD insertion
• other gynecologic concerns

The clinic also offers IUD / nexplanon insertion and procedural IUD insertion in a trauma-informed setting. The clinic has access to multidisciplinary care with many other services through combined rounds to allow more flexible, efficient patient care.

Pediatric Anesthesia Clinic

Pre-operative assessment by a pediatric anesthesiologist includes:

• visit may be completed by Anesthesiologist in person or by virtual media (Phone, Skype, Zoom)
• assessment advice may include other investigations and specialis referral
• parents / guardians will receive education round anesthesia techniques and risks and pain control options
• pediatric intensive care consultation as required
• communicate and organize specialized anesthesia requirements to the team managing care the day of surgery
• facilitate informed consent

Pediatric Arthrogryposis Clinic

Arthrogryposis is a condition that affect the joints. It is typically discovered in utero or at birth. Pediatric patients under age 18 who have arthrogryposis are seen in this multi-disciplinary clinic.

Pediatric Asthma Clinic

Services include:

• pulmonary function test (breathing test) for children 6+ years
• assessment and diagnosis
• asthma education / teaching
• self-management / asthma action plan

Pediatric Audiology - Specialized Services

All initial hearing assessment referrals should be directed to community Audiology at Richmond Road Diagnostic and treatment center.

Audiology Services provides the following specialized services:

• amplification (hearing aids) for children 0-5 years with identified permanent hearing loss
• bone conduction hearing devices for children 0-17 years
• cochlear implant assessment and follow up for children 0-17 years
• assessments as part of multi-disciplinary hospital clinics (children need to meet inclusion criteria of clinics Cleft Palate, Neonatal follow up, Oncology, Microtia, and Hearing)
• sedated ABR Referrals accepted only from Audiologists for difficult to assess children

Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinic

For pediatric patients who require bone marrow transplant services.

Pediatric Brachial Plexus & Peripheral Nerve Clinic

For children and youth with functional deficits resulting from known or suspected brachial plexus or peripheral nerve injury, obstetrical or acquired. Patient care may be provided by one or more of the following interdisiciplinary team members: occupational therapists, physiotherapists, physiatrists, plastic surgeons, social workers.

Pediatric Burns Services - Outpatients

This outpatient clinic treats children who have sustained a thermal injury and will need to be followed long - term. The clinic can also refer clients to plastic surgery service. Clinic is located within the Rehabilitation Clinic at Alberta Children's Hospital on the lower level.

Pediatric Cardiac Diagnostics - Echocardiography (ECHO) Lab and Electrodiagnostics (ECG) Lab

All testing can only be ordered by the Cardiologist

Echocardiography testing including:

• 2-D echo
• transesophageal echo

The following electrodiagnostic tests are available:

• holters
• event monitors
• electrocardiograms
• stress tests

Pediatric Cardiology - Inpatients

Provides children with inpatient cardiac assessment and medical treatment for congenital and acquired heart disease. Closed heart surgery may be done in Calgary or Edmonton. Children who require open heart surgery are referred to Edmonton.

Pediatric Cardiology Clinic

This service offers the following diagnostic services within the Cardiology Clinic:

• Pediatric Electrocardiogram (ECG) Lab provides cardiac rhythm evaluation and testing
• Pediatric Echocardiography Lab specializes in diagnostic ultrasound scanning of the heart

Pediatric Centre for Weight and Health

Our team partners with your family to set health goals at your own pace considering nutrition, physical activity, health, mental health and well-being. You may work with our team one-on-one or in a group setting.

Every child and family's journey is unique. Our goal is to support healthy lifestyle changes that are respectful and responsive to your family's needs and values.

For more information visit the Pediatric Centre for Weight and Health page.

Pediatric Cleft Lip and Palate Clinic

Provides care to children and adults born with a cleft lip and/or palate and other head, face, or jaw abnormalities, which includes follow-up care with healthcare providers.

Offers care to children with hypernasal speech (too much air coming down the nose during speech, also known as velopharyngeal dysfunction).

Visit the PEAS (Pediatric Eating and Swallowing) website to find relevant information for families and care providers of children with an eating, feeding and swallowing disorder.

Pediatric Cochlear Implant Service

Assessment and rehabilitation services are provided by a multidisciplinary team which may include Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology, Social Work and Psychology. An Otolaryngologist and Pediatrician are available for consultation.

Pediatric Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Clinic

Cares for children with CDH repair from southern Alberta, southeastern British Columbia and southwestern Saskatchewan. Care includes assessment, treatment, education and coordination with other specialists as needed.

Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Clinic

The nurse is the main contact for the clinic and the nurse:

• coordinates and plans the care
• is available for telephone consultation, Monday through Friday

The clinic is held weekly.

• children and their families visit the clinic 3 to 4 times a year
• visits takes between 1 and 3 hours
• activities include measurements of height, weight, breathing tests, lab work, x-rays, and assessments with each team member. Consultation with other specialities can also be arranged as needed

Newborn infants recalled through the newborn screening program are scheduled for a follow-up test (sweat chloride) and parents are provided education and offered genetic counselling.

Pediatric Dental Clinic

This service provides dental treatment to special needs children who are medically, mentally or physically challenged. These special needs patients include, without being limited to, children with moderate to severe developmental delays, genetic disorders and/or craniofacial deformities, cleft lip and palate, severe cognitive disorders, cancer, organ transplant, hematology disorders, cerebral palsy, seizure disorders, prematurity with chronic medical issues, infectious diseases, sleep apnea, velopharyngeal incompetency, mental health issues or under palliative care.

Pediatric Dermatology Clinic

This service provides consultation for pediatric skin conditions that are of concern or have not responded to treatment. Doctors or health care professionals can refer for additional investigation, diagnosis, and/or treatment.

Conditions diagnosed and treated:

• skin lesions not yet diagnosed
• vascular anomalies (coordinated care with the Vascular Lesions Clinic)
• nevi / moles
• dermatitis
• pigmentation disorders
• hair / nail abnormalities
• complicated acne
• genodermatoses
• autoimmune disorders
• urticaria and related syndromes
• infections
• tumors / nodules

Pediatric Diabetes - Inpatients

For newly diagnosed pediatric patients with diabetes, diabetic ketoacidosis, and those patients requiring acute support of their diabetes diagnosis. We collaborate fully with comprehensive supports including our ambulatory and community partners.

Pediatric Diabetes Clinic

This service provides referred children with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes a multidisciplinary approach for ongoing diabetes management and education.

It is also a recognized centre for the Alberta Insulin Pump Therapy Program.

Pediatric Ears Nose and Throat Clinic

Provides treatment for the following conditions:

• airway anomolies
• cleft palate
• decreased hearing
• dsyphagia
• ear Infections
• epistaxis
• microtia
• nasal congestion
• neck mass
• sleep apnea
• stridor
• tonsillitis
• voice disturbances

Pediatric Eating, Feeding & Swallowing - Outpatient Services

Provides care to children with complex feeding or swallowing problems requiring specialized support. This may include feeding / swallowing issues associated with structural and motor disorders affecting the mouth, throat, airway, and digestive system and/or suspected aspiration.

Factors may include:

• trouble coordinating swallowing with breathing
• congestion during and / or after feeding
• changes in colour or state during feeding
• pervasive choking, coughing, or gagging during meals
• recurrent chest congestions or pneumonias
• medical instability or risk of deterioration
• severe aversion to oral feeding
• psycosocial factors severely impacting mealtime routines and feeding relationships
• specialized support required to begin transition to enteral (tube) feeds or tube weaning to progress to oral feeds

Visit the PEAS (Pediatric Eating and Swallowing) website to find relevant information for families and care providers of children with an eating, feeding and swallowing disorder.

Pediatric Electroencephalography Service

An EEG test is a measurement of the electrical activity of the brain. It takes approximately 60 - 90 minutes and is performed by a technologist and then interpreted by a neurologist. The test involves the placement of electrodes on your scalp, there is no pain or discomfort involved. We ask that you arrive for your appointment with clean hair with no mousse, gels or hairspray.

Pediatric Endocrine Clinic

This service provides:

• diagnosis, assessment, and management for children with endocrine disorders (children with diabetes are seen in the Diabetes Clinic)
• education to patients and their families about their condition and how to prevent complications
• patient and family access to a dietitian, social worker, and psychologist for endocrine-related issues
• a pediatric endocrinologist who travels to Medicine Hat 3 to 4 times a year to see referral patients

Some of the health issues this program sees include: children with short or tall stature, delayed or precocious (early) puberty, adrenal insuffiency, thyroid conditions, and high cholesterol.

Pediatric Gastroenterology (GI) Clinic

Provides comprehensive inpatient, outpatient and emergency services to children with intestinal, liver and complex nutritional disorders.

Pediatric Gender Services Clinic

A multi-disciplinary team that offers an affirming approach to gender identity and care for patients 5-18 years.

Pediatric General Surgery - Inpatients

This unit provides care for children following orthopedic, plastic and general surgery.

Pediatric Headache Clinic

The Pediatric Headache Clinic at Alberta Children's Hospital provides assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of all headache disorders. The focus is self-management and integrates biopsychosocial interventions with medical mangement.

The clinic also provides diagnosis and treatment of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS).

Pediatric Hematology

This clinic coordinates care for children with:

• benign hematological disorders
• hemophilia and bleeding disorders
• thrombosis
• hemoglobinopathies

Pediatric Home IV Therapy - Paediatric Home Parenteral Therapy Program

Home IV therapy is offered when the children needs therapy for more than 7 days.

Pediatric Immunology Clinic

This clinic is designed to investigate, diagnose and treat immunodeficiency disorders in children.

Pediatric Infectious Diseases - Ambulatory Parenteral Therapy Program

Offers outpatient intravenous therapy for eligible children.

Pediatric Infectious Diseases - HPTP

Home parenteral therapy program educates and supports patients and families in receiving long term intravenous (IV) therapy.

Pediatric Infectious Diseases Clinic

Services include:

• Ambulatory Parenteral Therapy Program (APTP)
• Home Parenteral Therapy Program (HPTP)
• General Infectious Diseases Clinic
• HIV Clinic
• Tropical Medicine Clinic
• Immunization Assessment Clinic

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Provides critical care for children.

The Pediatric Transport Team provides a transport system for critically ill children. The team transports patients to and from hospitals throughout southern Alberta, southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern British Columbia with EMS and STARS.

Pediatric Kidney Transplant Services - Southern Alberta Transplant Program

The family-centred care for children awaiting kidney transplant and the care after transplants includes:

• assessment
• preparing for transplant
• kidney transplant
• follow-up for children after transplant

Pediatric Liver Transplant Follow-up Services - Southern Alberta Transplant Program

Follow-up medical care for children living south of Red Deer who have had a liver transplant. Liver transplants are done at the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton.

Pediatric Medical Day Treatment Unit

Medical Day Treatment Unit:

• accepts referrals from internal ambulatory medical clinics in Alberta Children's Hospital only
• provides pediatric intravenous infusions on an outpatient care basis

Pediatric Myelomeningocele Clinic

The clinic follows and supports children and their families from birth until transition (or until the family no longer requires the service).

Pediatric Neurology Clinic

Using a coordinated care approach, this service manages children with complex seizure disorders and neurological conditions. Education is also offered to the child, their family, and the community.

Pediatric Neuromotor Clinic

Offers treatment, counselling, and coordinates care for children with cerebral palsy, and their families.

Pediatric Neuromuscular Clinic

Provides care and management for children with neuromuscular or spinocerebellar disease, including muscular dystrophy.

Pediatric Neuropsychology Service

Services include:

• assessing thinking and learning skills, abilities, and behaviour
• consulting on therapy and treatment programs
• working with school resource groups and rehabilitation teams

Pediatric Neurosurgery Clinic

The Neurosurgery clinic provides consultation and assessment and intervention for diseases of the nervous system (brain and spline), which may include:

• trauma
• infections
• vascular disease
• congenital malformations - prenatal counselling
• hydrocephalus
• epilepsy surgeries
• stroke or bleeding into the brain
• brain - spine tumors (cancer and non-cancer)
• tethered cord syndrome
• craniosynostosis

Pediatric Occupational Therapy

The goal is to enable children to participate as fully as possible in the activities of everyday life, and to support children in continuing to grow and develop skills that support lifelong occupational engagement.

Provides:

• function based assessment, treatment, consultation and education targeting specific goals
• service can be provided in isolation of, or in collaboration with various multi-disciplinary clinics
• service delivery follows a response to intervention approach and may be offered in universal, targeted or individualized formats
• navigational supports to transition children to local services as required using Pediatric Rehabilitation Continuum to guide level and location of care needs

Service Streams:

• Musculoskeletal: Plastics, Rheumatology, Amputee, Arthrogryposis
• Neurological and Transitions: Driving, Splinting, Treatment Post-intervention, Specialty equipment, Functional Goals
• Eating, Feeding and Swallowing: Instrumental and Clinical Swallowing assessment, clinical eating, feeding and swallowing management and treatment
• ACETS: Provision and support of augmentative communication strategies and devices
• Seating: Provision and support of level B or C wheelchairs and seating systems
• ECR: multidisciplinary intervention for children under 5 with acute changes in function and/ or medical complexity

Pediatric Oncology Clinic

This service provides:

• diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for children with cancer
• referral for all pediatric bone marrow transplants

Pediatric Orthopedic Clinic

In partnership with a multidisciplinary team the service provides inpatient and outpatient consultation and surgical services to children with bone, joint, ligament and nerve disorders that require a surgical intervention or specialized orthopedic evaluation. The clinic focuses on:

• consultation for orthopedic surgery
• pre and post orthopedic surgery, planning, rehabilitation and support
• education about managing orthopedic conditions
• consultation and management of traumatic orthopedic injuries
• orthopedic conditions where patients have not responded to conservative management through primary care services

Pediatric Orthotic Services

This service:

• offers design, fabrication, and fitting of all types of orthotic devices
• is an Alberta Aids to Daily Living (AADL) vendor for orthotic devices

Pediatric Oxygen Clinic

A multidisciplinary specialty clinic that provides diagnosis, assessment and treatment of acute and chronic lung disease in children not followed in other Alberta Children's Hospital Respiratory Specialty Clinics such as Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, or Complex Airway.

Pediatric Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Our role is to provide complex assessment and care facilitation, which may include subsequent referrals to other services for active / ongoing treatment. Additionally, we provide surveillance of ongoing functional needs and / or changes.

This clinic includes two streams:

• a PT / OT stream which provides functional assessment and support with system navigation. PT / OT screen medical needs and can consult additional disciplines, as appropriate
• a physiatry (MD) / RN stream which provides complex assessment of medical needs and system navigation. Physiatry (MD) / RN screen functional needs and can consult additional disciplines, as appropriate

Only one referral is needed. Each referral is triaged to one of these streams, dependent on need. However, all accepted referrals will have consultative access to all four disciplines, as needed.

Pediatric Physiotherapy

This service focuses on helping to restore physical function, movement, and mobility for children with movement disorders, pain, trauma, chronic disease, and complex needs including musculoskeletal and neurological concerns.

Provides:

• assessment, diagnosis, treatment, consultation and education targeting specific goals
• service can be provided in isolation of, or in collaboration with various multi-disciplinary clinics
• service delivery follows a response to intervention approach and may be offered in universal, targeted or individualized formats
• navigational supports to transition children to local services as required using Pediatric Rehabilitation Continuum to guide level and location of care needs

Service Streams:

• Musculoskeletal: Burns, Rheumatology, Amputee, Arthrogryposis
• Neurological and Transitions: Treatment Post-intervention, Specialty equipment, Functional Goals
• Pain: Acute, Transitional and Chronic
• Seating: Provision and support of level B or C wheelchairs and seating systems
• ECR: multidisciplinary intervention for children under 5 with acute changes in function and/or medical complexity

Pediatric Plastic Surgery

Pediatric Plastic Surgeons see patients referred from the emergency room, community family physicians and pediatricians, and hospital specialists. In various clinics treatment is provided for problems which may include:

• Pediatric Plastics clinic: trauma including soft tissue injuries anywhere on the body, hand injuries both soft tissue and bony, facial injuries both soft tissue and bony, skin and soft tissue congenital and aquired abnormalities, congenital breast differences, congenital ear differences such as prominent ears, wound problems that require reconstruction such as traumatic, congenital and oncologic problems.
• Cleft lip and Palate clinic: children born with cleft lip or cleft lip and palate or cleft palate alone; also children with speech abnormalities that are related to cleft lip and palate or velopharyngeal incompetence with or without cleft palate.
• Vascular Birthmark clinic: children with hemangiomas or vascular malformations such as venous, lymphatic or ateriovenous malformations.
• Burn clinic: pediatric patients with acute burns or burn scars.
  Craniofacial clinic: children born with craniofacial abnormalities such as craniosynostoses.
• Microtia clinic: children born with severely malformed external ears.
• Complex upper extremity clinic: children with congenital hand differences that also involve other parts of the upper extremity (wrist, elbow) or are affected by other systemic problems (cerebral palsy).
• Brachial plexus clinic: children born with brachial plexus palsy due to obstetrical delivery problem.

Pediatric Pre-Assessment Clinic

Services include:

• reviewing and confirming necessary pre-operative information
• attention made to facilitate as seamless a surgical journey as possible

Pediatric Psychiatry - Inpatient

Offers services for children and adolescents who have serious, ongoing mental health concerns, including:

• assessment and treatment
• access to social work, community liaison, and rehabilitation services

Pediatric Psychology

This service provides:

• assessment: intellectual / cognitive, interpersonal, emotional, and behavioural functioning of child, parents, and family
• consultation: to other service providers within Child Health and to the community
• treatment: individual, group, parent, family therapy, behaviour management, play therapy, counselling to help adjust to handicaps and medical conditions

For more information visit our website.

Pediatric Pulmonary Clinic

A multidisciplinary specialty clinic that provides diagnosis, assessment and treatment of acute and chronic lung disease, in children and adolescents, that are not followed in other Alberta Children's Hospital Respiratory Specialty Clinics, such as Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, Sleep, Oxygen or Complex Airway.

Pediatric Pulmonary Function Lab

This service provides:

• diagnostic pulmonary function testing and histamine challenges
• exercise testing
• overnight saturation monitoring
• Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FENO)
• asthma education
• pre-school testing for children 4 - 6 years if developmentally appropriate
• complete PFT for 6+ years with pre/post brochodilator

Pediatric Rehabilitation and Education Program

The program:

• assists the child / youth with transition back into the community and community school
• includes on-site classrooms to allow children/youth to continue with their education, as part of their rehabilitation process
• has a strong parent education focus
• involves parents in planning their child / youth's treatment

This program also can include consultation with orthotics service and seating service if appropriate.

Pediatric Respiratory Services - Inpatients

This service provides respiratory therapy services and education for children who are critical care inpatients, their families, doctor, residents, and other healthcare providers.

Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic

The focus of the treatment plan is:

• managing pain
• maintaining normal childhood activities
• helping them to adjust to daily living with chronic illness