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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. Elevators, designated disabled parking, and washrooms.
Monday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.Tuesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.Wednesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.Friday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
This lab will serve hospital inpatient, Ambulatory Clinic patients, by physician or clinic referral only.
Outpatient Collection Site and Testing Laboratory. GRPH main entrance, Outpatient lab is on level 1.11205 110 Street Grande Prairie Alberta T8V 4B1
825-412-4330
825-412-4953
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https://www.albertaprecisionlabs.ca
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Callers who do not want to wait on hold will be given the option to leave a voice message. They will be called back when an agent is available.
Callers requiring access to an AMH service will be screened, triaged, and provided with a first appointment booking, or will be provided with information on appropriate community resources. Callers should be prepared to spend 30-45 minutes with a mental health therapist staff, to complete the screening and intake process.
In the North Zone, there are three designated units:
These units provide care for formal and voluntary patients who are admitted with acute psychiatric illnesses that require hospitalization.
Adults 18 years and older
Clients will be assessed and have recommendations from many healthcare providers. The doctor that admits a person to the program may be different than the doctor who made the referral.
Provides videofluoroscopic swallow studies with referral to appropriate follow-up in the community.
Referrals will be seen and prioritized based on their need for medical treatment.
Services provided may include:
This service cares for people from Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories depending on location.
For more information visit our webpage.
Open on statutory holidays 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM.
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.
An exercise stress test (or cardiac stress test) checks how your heart works during physical activity, usually by walking on a treadmill while hooked up to an EKG and blood pressure cuff, to diagnose coronary artery disease, find the cause of symptoms like chest pain, and determine safe exercise levels by monitoring your heart's response as the intensity increases. A Pediatric Holter monitor is a small, portable device that continuously records your heart's electrical activity (ECG) for 24 hours or more while you go about your daily routine, helping doctors diagnose irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias, palpitations), assess heart conditions, and check if medications are working. We do not perform pediatric stress tests at this site. We do not perform adult holters at this site.
Patients with known or suspected heart conditions.
By appointment only. On call services are available outside of regular hours for emergencies only. There are radiologists on site.
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.
The Crisis Response Team (CRT) is a multidisciplinary team of Registered Nurses and Mental Health Therapists that work in collaboration with on call Psychiatry in supporting the needs of Addiction and Mental Health patients that present to the Emergency Department through crisis stabilization, mental health assessment, referral and follow up as required.Patients accessing this service are first seen by the triage team in the Emergency Department, then are referred to CRT if safe and appropriate to do so.
Referrals are received from the Emergency Department or other inpatient units as appropriate.
Emergency Department staff contact CRT directly.
Wait times can vary, every best effort is made to be seen as soon as possible.
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.
Facilitates safe and timely discharge from hospital for people with complex health issues. Works with hospital and community resources to make sure people are safely discharged from hospital to their homes environment or another Living Option.
Doctors and healthcare providers usually refer people when they are admitted to hospital or after using a screening tool. Family members can also ask for a discharge coordinator.
After the birth of your baby, a health care provider will offer to have your baby's hearing screened.
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.
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.
Your baby will be referred to Community Hearing Screening if:
For more information on screening in the community, see the service type Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) Program - Community Hearing Screening.
Echocardiography uses ultrasound to study the structure and function of the heart, including blood flow through the heart and its valves.
Offers outpatient and inpatient electroencephalograms (EEG) to help assess and treat problems with the brain.
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.
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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.
Services include:
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
Evening and weekend coverage is available.
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.
Sunday and STAT Holidays closed
Some offer a selection of gifts, snacks, magazines, and toiletries for sale.
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.
To access contact information and a list of services offered, select a hospital.
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Hours may vary.
As of December 4, 2021 at 6:00 AM, this service is available at the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital.
This program provides support and health information to healthcare providers, Indigenous patients / clients and their families through personal visits. Specifically, this includes:
This service is available on-site in hospitals, public health centres and in the community. Upon request, staff can be present at hospital rounds, medical appointments and case conferences. This program will communicate with the healthcare team to ensure provision of culturally sensitive healthcare service.
Patient / client language interpretation service is also available upon request.
Patients and clients may also be asked about their healthcare experience to help ensure they receive the best possible healthcare.
Clients can self refer or be referred by family or friends.
First Nations (Status and Non-Status), Métis, and Inuit peoples and their families.
This combined intensive care / coronary care unit cares for inpatients who are critically ill (e.g., organ system failure) or need telemetry monitoring. May also provide these tests:
Only a Critical Care Physician can admit people to the unit and book outpatient tests.
Interventional Radiography is a sub-specialty of Diagnostic Imaging (radiology) that uses image-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.
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.
Provide care for pregnant women starting at 20 weeks gestation who may require hospitalization and monitoring during the pregnancy, up to and including labour and delivery via c-section or vaginal delivery. This includes:
For more information, visit the Prenatal website.
If you need to see an Obstetrician, you will need a referral. Your doctor will send your prenatal health records including ultrasounds, blood work, or fetal monitoring tracings if possible.
If you need to be induced, you may have to wait 1 to 2 days if there are many women in active labour on the unit. The decision wiill be made with your Physician or midwife.
Cares for pregnant women, which includes:
For women at least 20 weeks pregnant.
365 days a year
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.
Please call to inquire about lost and found items at the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital.
By appointment only.
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.
Mammography is a type of x-ray to look for growths or changes in breast tissue.
Based on Albertan recommendations (guidelines):
Women, aged 45 to 74, who live in Alberta and have no symptoms and no personal / family history are eligible for regular breast cancer screening using mammograms every 2 years. If you're between the ages of 45 and 74, you're automatically included in the Alberta Breast Cancer Screening program. Once you turn 50, and if you haven't had a screening mammogram in Alberta already, you'll receive a letter letting you know that you're at an age when screening is important and inviting you to get screened.
Open weekdays
Provides clean or sterilized items for use in patient care including:
7 days / week
The General Medicine unit offers diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of diseases involving all organ systems. This is a complex, acute care environment, where team work, patient safety and best practice are the back drop for providing the best patient care and driving patient and staff satisfaction.
You need to be admitted by a Physician.
Service includes:
For adult patients only.
Scheduled by the physician based on availabilty to provide service.
Provides care to critically ill newborn babies and service includes:
Admission to the NICU is by referral only and must go through the on call pediatrician
Babies 32 weeks and over. NICU also will provide services to previous NICU graduates and other newborns who have been discharged and require admission for this level of care. This is at the discretion of the pediatrician.
Provides care to newborn babies, which includes:
Healthy newborn baby.
If circumcision is requested by parents, fees apply.
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.
Service will be provided through home care, inpatients, as well as outpatients. Services and delivery will differ depending on location. Consultations will often be virtual or face-to-face based on the clinical evaluation. If a face-to-face assessment is required, patients will be seen at a home-care clinic or outpatient department.
Examples of services:
This service will also provide support, teaching and / or counselling:
Depends on the waitlist and urgency of the referral.
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.
Translation services are available if required
Family doctor or surgeon to book appointments through Outpatient Department booking. Referrals for surgeons go through their offices not OPD, or the surgeon on call.
Service offers diagnostic procedures, including:
Not all services are offered at all locations.
Provides recovery to:
Not all services available at all locations.
Referred by physician.Booked through Outpatient booking department.
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 overarching objectives are to:
PFS delivers more than 31,000 patient/resident meals each day within AHS facilities.
Clinics are scheduled as needed. Please call for more information.
The service provides specialized care for children, from birth to 18 years of age, who may require surgery or ongoing medical management of their cardiac condition.
The following diagnostic services are offered within the clinic:
Targets to:
Will be defined based on referral.
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.
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.
Provides:
New or expectant mothers.
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
This program provides non-invasive breathing tests to show how well the lungs are working. The test measures lung volume, capacity, rates of flow, and gas exchange.
Please bring a family member to interpret if required and available or arrange with the sheduling department well in advance that an interpreter service is required the day of appointment.
Closed weekends and Stat holidays
After hours coverage in Emergency 24/7 for Emergencies only.
Patient Registration registers:
Please call for hours as they vary depending on the availability of the respiratory therapist.
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
Creates and maintains a work environment that is safe and secure for staff, patients and public members.
Services may include:
A doctor or other healthcare provider must send in a referral.
Spirituality is a dimension of health. A Spiritual Health Practitioner (SHP) is a member of the health care team that can help you understand your unique health journey in light of your personal beliefs, values, relationships and experiences. Spiritual healthcare is confidential, inclusive, compassionate, and respectful and SHPs are skilled in providing philosophical, spiritual, and religious patient care across beliefs, cultural perspectives, and practices. They address spiritual distress (experiences of loss of meaning and connection in relation to yourself, to others and to what you understand as greater) and promote spiritual well-being (connection in relation to yourself, to others and to what you understand as greater).
A SHP will listen compassionately and work with you to determine the support you want and need. Services may include the following:
Visiting hours from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Provides pre-and post-operative care to surgical inpatients and Day Surgery patients and overflow care to medical patients.
Patients may be admitted by a doctor from the Emergency Room, and Out Patient Department or through a surgeon' office. The surgeon's office sends the history, operative booking form, and consent to the Operating Room booking office.
These services include:
Therapeutic recreation is important to a person's quality of life. With this in mind, this service:
Referrals can be received from family physicians, Home Care, or other Allied Health professionals.
Service is targeted primarily for residents residing in continuing care and acute care patients waiting placement. Also available on a consultative basis only for individuals in the communities who require this service due to medical reasons.
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.
Days of the week varies on physician availability. Outpatients is open 5 days a week 8-1600. Data on the site shows Tuesday and Wednesdays only.
This service diagnoses and treats disorders of the urinary tract in women and the urogenital system in men.Performs minor urology procedures in the Ambulatory care department.
Our volunteer roles share a commitment to improving the quality of the patient and family experience.
Volunteers are:
For general information about volunteering with AHS please visit our website.
