Access 24 / 7, Adult Intake Services

Access 24 / 7 provides a range of urgent and non-urgent addiction and mental health services including service navigation, screening, assessment, referral, consultation, crisis intervention, outreach and short term stabilization.

Child Health Clinics Community

This service provides:

• immunization to infants and preschool children
• health education/counselling/support for parents
• health assessment and screening to identify health concerns
• referral to healthcare providers and community resources

Community Health Centre Locations

Provides a wide range of health services including immunization and public health nursing. Select the community health centre nearest you to learn more about the services offered.

Community Outreach Assessment Support Team (COAST)

A multidisciplinary care team that aims to support the person, family, caregivers, community, and larger systems through assessment, recommendations, intervention, education, support for transitions, and facilitation of collaborative care on complex cases.

Health for Two

Health for Two (Hf2) provides support throughout pregnancy and up to 2 months postpartum to people who require extra support to have a healthy pregnancy.

Services offered include:

• education on pregnancy, birth, baby care and parenting (including pregnancy and parenting options)
• support and referrals to community supports (such as maternity care, mental health, addictions, housing, food security)
• resources may include grocery coupons and prenatal vitamins

Healthy Beginnings Postpartum Program

Provides nursing care and support including:

• Health assessment of birth parent and newborn
• Feeding support
• Information about parenting and newborn care
• Referrals to healthcare providers or community resources as needed

You will be contacted after you are discharged from the hospital to arrange an initial assessment.

Immunization - Adult Services

This service provides routine immunization for adults. Suggested immunizations:

• a booster dose of diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough)(dTap) every 10 years
• dTap vaccine for pregnant women every time they are pregnant
• Hepatitis B vaccine (HBV) for unprotected adults born in 1981 or later. Some adults born before 1981 may need this vaccine if they are at risk for hepatitis B (e.g. health problems, type of work, lifestyle, contact with the virus)
• Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for adults up to and including age 26 years who did not get it in school.
• Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) vaccine for adults whose immunization records do not show the recommended number of doses of measles, mumps, or rubella vaccine
• Chickenpox vaccine for unprotected adults
• annual influenza vaccine
• pneumococcal vaccine for all adults 65 years of age and older and adults with certain health problems

To find out which vaccines are recommended for you and to book an appointment for immunization, call your nearest community / public health centre. If you are not sure where your nearest community / public health centre is, you can call Health Link at 811. Bring any immunization records you have to the appointment, especially if you were immunized in another province or country.

For more general information about immunization go to ImmunizeAlberta.ca, Immunizations at myhealth.alberta.ca, or call Health Link.

Immunization - Infant and Preschool Services

Alberta Health Services provides routine immunization for infants and children across Alberta. Immunizations are free of charge for infants and children who live in Alberta.
Immunizations are recommended for infants starting at 2 months of age. Routinely recommended vaccines include: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, polio, Haemophilus influenzae type b, hepatitis B, rotavirus, meningococcal, pneumococcal, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (chickenpox), and influenza.

For the routine immunization schedule, go to immunizealberta.ca.

Additional vaccines may be needed depending on your child’s health conditions or other risk factors.

Immunization is effective. Other than providing safe drinking water, no other health intervention works as well as immunization to reduce disease and death rates. Immunization protects whole communities. The more people who are fully immunized in a community, the safer everyone is.

Immunization is safe. It is much safer to get immunized than to get the diseases that vaccines protect against.

For more information, and to book an appointment, call your nearest community/public health centre. If you are not sure where your nearest community/public health centre is, call Health Link at 811. Bring your child’s immunization record to the appointment, especially if your child was immunized in another province or country.

For more general information about immunization, go to immunizealberta.ca, Immunizations at myhealth.alberta.ca, or call Health Link at 811.

Immunization - School Services

Each year, Alberta Health Services, Public Health reviews immunization records for students in grades 1, 6, and 9 to see what immunizations each student needs. A consent form is then sent home with an information sheet for each vaccine recommended for the student. No immunizations will be given in school without consent from a parent or legal guardian. Immunizations in this program include:

• Grades 1, 6, and 9: Any routine childhood and school vaccines that may have been missed according to a review of the students immunization record on file
• Grade 6: Hepatitis B (HBV) vaccine for students who have not already completed a hepatitis B immunization series and human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine
• Grade 9: diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (dTap) and meningococcal (Groups A, C, Y, W-135) conjugate vaccine

Prenatal Education Program

This service provides prenatal education in order to enhance birth outcomes and experiences for the birth persons and their families. Service delivery happens in both virtual and in-person class formats depending on parent preference. In-person classes are delivered in locations across Edmonton.
The program aims to help pregnant people and their families understand and prepare for pregnancy, labour, delivery and beyond. Prenatal Classes may be taken in several formats, from once or twice a week to weekend sessions.

Classes may include:

• education on pregnancy concerns
• pain management strategies
• labour interventions
• basic newborn care

Additional classes that families or support people can take include:

• Infant Safety
• Grandparent Class
• Infant Feeding (Eat, Sleep, Poop Repeat)

Preschool Oral Health Services

Fluoride varnish helps protect your child's teeth from tooth decay (cavities). It slows down decay already started.

Your child needs four fluoride varnish visits, six months apart, to best protect their teeth. Fluoride varnish is painted on your child's teeth. It takes less than one minute to apply. You can hold your child during the visit.

You can also ask any questions you may have about protecting your child's teeth.

If your child is diagnosed with asthma by a doctor, bring their quick reliever medication to the appointment. If your child feels anxious with dental visits it may trigger asthma symptoms.

This provincial prevention service is available across Alberta.

For more information and eligibility, visit our website: Preschool Oral Health Services

Public Health Services

A service offered by Public Health Nurses including immunization according to the Alberta Health immunization schedule, health education/counselling / support for parent / pre and post natal, health assessment and screening to identify health concerns, and referral to appropriate health care providers such as physicians, and community resources.

Community Health Centres

School Health Services

For more information visit our website or Schools & Educators.

School Oral Health Services

Services are offered to eligible schools and may include:

• fluoride varnish, provided to kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2
• dental sealants, provided to Grade 1 and Grade 2

A child diagnosed with asthma must have their short acting asthma reliever medication with them to receive service.

Supportive Living Geriatric Evaluation & Management Consult Team

Frail seniors (over age of 65) with complex care needs requiring further assessment. Clients who are medically stable and experiencing acute functional and / or cognitive decline. Clients under 65 years of age will be considered for service on a case-by-case basis.

Geriatric syndromes such as:

• falls / immobility
• polypharmacy
• cognitive impairment (including behaviour changes)
• pain management
• incontinence (bowel or bladder)
• nutrition / weight loss or weight gain

Referrals are accepted for all Designated Supportive Living and Private Supportive Living clients. Note that the GEM team cannot respond to an urgent referral.

The GEM team consists of a geriatric physician and a Supportive Living (SL) gerontology-certified Registered Nurse (RN). This partnership assists primary care physicians with assessment and management of complex older adults, with functional and / or cognitive decline. GEM RNs provide clients with assessment and support in conjunction with family physicians, a SL Case Manager (CM), and Contracted Service Provider site staff. All referrals require primary care physician approval. Ongoing care is provided by the client’s primary physician during this intervention.

Tuberculosis Testing

Offers free tuberculosis (TB) skin testing to eligible Albertans. The Mantoux skin test is not recommended to diagnose TB.

Testing is done at public health centres throughout the province:

• North Zone
• Edmonton Zone
• Central Zone
• Calgary Zone
• South Zone

If you are not eligible for free testing but still need to be tested there will be a charge for the test.

For travel or work related TB testing contact the Travel Health Services in your area.

Wellness Integrated Support Homes

Offers living spaces for adults who need 24 / 7 access to help with daily activities.

Services include:

• help with daily activities, home making, and medicines
• monitoring health
• access to recreation activities
• scheduling professional services

Living spaces are usually small group homes where 5 to 8 people live together and get support from a Health Care Aid. Residents have private bedrooms and share all other common areas of the home. Basic bedroom furnishings are provided.

Each resident has a Case Manager who assesses health care needs on an ongoing basis, co-ordinates and schedule access to health care services.