Adult Day Program

Offers day wellness program for adults in Calgary and area. Provides up to 6 hours of wellness program. The program offers:

• activities and exercises
• recreation programs
• blood pressure and weight monitoring
• help with giving medicines
• basic personal care
• rest breaks
• meals and snacks 

Aids to Daily Living

This Government of Alberta funded program provides assessment for benefits like back supports, catheter supplies, incontinence supplies, and mastectomy supplies (for people younger than 65) is provided by AADL authorized assessors and AADL approved vendors.

• home visit is needed for bathing and bathroom equipment, walkers, walking aids, wheelchairs (manual and power) and wheelchair cushions and accessories
• prescription from a doctor is needed for compression garments
• no coverage for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) units.

Call AADL Toll-free in Alberta: 310-0000, then 780-427-0731, if you have questions regarding program eligibility or covered benefits.

Audiology Services

Community Audiology provides the following services (not all services are offered at each site):

• diagnostic hearing assessments for all ages (ABR for infants younger than 6 months)
• hearing screening
• oncology (baseline/monitoring) hearing assessment
• vestibular (VNG/VEMP) assessments (ENT/Neurology referral required)
• cochlear implant (CI) candidacy assessments and intervention/follow-up for adults 18 and older

This service does not provide/sell hearing aids, however candidacy and information about where to obtain hearing aids is provided post hearing assessment.

Community Health Centres

Community Health Centres provide a wide range of health services, which may include:

• Antenatal Community Prenatal Program (ACCP)
• Best Beginning
• Postpartum Services
• Early Start Parent Information Line 
• School Health Program
• Well Child Services

Community Pediatric Asthma Service

Certified Respiratory Educators:

• teach children and their families about asthma in their doctor’s office or in a community clinic. Children over 6 years of age will also have a breathing test (simple spirometry). 
• available to make group presentations by request. 

For more information, visit I Can Control Asthma

Diagnostic Imaging Services

The types of tests provided in Diagnostic Imaging are included below.

Please click on the test you require to see the locations that are being offered:

• Computed Tomography (CT scans)
• General Radiography (X-ray)
• Interventional Radiography/Angiography
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
• Mammography (Mammograms)
• Nuclear Medicine
• Positron Emission Tomography (PET, PET/CT)
• Ultrasound
• Echocardiography
• Fluoroscopy

Fluoride Protection for Toddlers

Children only need to have a few teeth to start getting fluoride. Applications are given 4 times, once every 6 months. For eligibility information visit our website.

At the appointment:

• The child sits on their parent's lap while staff apply fluoride on the child's teeth using a brush, which takes less than a minute.
• The child can eat and drink right after the treatment.
• The fluoride sticks to the teeth and protects them. It slowly wears off when the teeth are brushed.

If the child has asthma, bring his or her asthma reliever medicine to the appointment.
This provincial prevention service is available in all AHS (Alberta Health Services) zones.

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.

Health Information / Records Management

Provides patients with information from their health records

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

Immunization - Adult and Seniors Services

This service provides routine immunization for adults and seniors. Suggested immunizations;

• a booster dose of tetanus / diphtheria vaccine every 10 years
• an adult booster dose of pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine, often combined with one of the tetanus / diphtheria boosters (dTap)
• annual influenza vaccine - for all Albertans 6 months of age and older
• 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 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 influenza type 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 Immunizations at myhealth.alberta.ca, or call Health Link at 811.

Immunization - School Services

This program provides routine immunizations to children in Grades 1, 5, and 9 in school. Before immunizations are given, records are reviewed to see what immunizations each child needs. A consent is then sent home. No immunizations will be given without consent from a parent or legal guardian. Immunizations in this program include:

• Grade 1: for children who have not received routine preschool immunizations, which includes diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella
• Grade 5: Offers Hepatitis B, human papilloma virus (HPV) and varicella (chickenpox) immunization to children who aren't immunized or have NOT had Hepatitis B or varicella disease. In August, 2014 HPV vaccine started being offered to grade 5 boys and girls. There is also a catch-up program for the grade 9 boys and girls who did not receive their vaccine in grade 5
• Grade 9: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and meningococcal vaccine is offered

Mental Health Urgent Care

Offers mental health crisis assessment and psychosocial interventions on a walk-in basis.

Urgent Mental Health conditions may include:

• depression
• anxiety
• thoughts of suicide or harming oneself
• overwhelming stress
• addictions
• other situations that cause a person to be in crisis

Parent Drop-In (Babies 2 months and older)

This service offers health information on:

• infant feeding;
• infant growth and development;
• vaccination;
• parenting adjustment;
• variety of health promotion topics.

Simply drop in at the most convenient time and location for you. Sessions are offered on a weekly basis.

Perinatal Education Program

Perinatal Education offers Childbirth Essentials at several locations in Calgary and surrounding area.

Our As Baby Grows category (birth to nine months) offers various classes for once baby is born.

Registration

Patient Registration

• registers and pre-registers patients and collects demographic and financial information.
•  registers patients for  inpatient admissions, ambulatory clinic appointment, and  emergency department services

School Health Program

This service offers:

• public health nursing time and support to all schools in the region. Works in partnership with school communities to promote health and develop strong, supportive communities using a comprehensive school health approach.
• health promotion activities and support healthy eating-active living, injury prevention and positive social environments
• teachers, parents and students can consult with a public health nurse for nursing assessment of concerns about physical, emotional or social well-being.
• school aged immunizations through school based programs. Routine immunization programs occur in grades 1, 5 and 9
• public health nurses monitor, report and respond to communicable disease outbreaks within the school community

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.

Social Work

Provides immediate assistance with concerning issues such as bullying, addictions, depression, anxiety, parenting, relationships, grief and loss, chronic disease, housing, employment and finances.

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. With the exception of Edmonton, you would contact the Immunization Business Unit to have school or work-related TB skin testing done.

Urgent Care Services

Urgent care services are for people who have unexpected but non-life-threatening health concerns that usually require same-day treatment. Some examples include broken bones, sprains, lacerations, asthma, dehydration, pain and infections.

All patients are according to the urgency of their health condition, with the sickest patients being seen first.

For more information please call Health Link by dialing 811

In case of emergency dial 911

Volunteer Resources

Our volunteer roles share a commitment to improving the quality of the patient and family experience.

Volunteers are:

• way-finders who help guide patients and families around our busy facilities,
• friendly visitors who spend time with our socially isolated patients,
• patient and family advisors who provide input and direction to AHS on numerous committees,  
• supporters of our volunteer retail operations - where the proceeds are returned to AHS to provide patient care and comfort.

For general information about volunteering with AHS please visit our website.

Well Child Services

Provide appointments for:

• routine vaccination (2, 4, 6, 12, 18 months and 4 years of age)
• health education, health promotion and support for parents related to adjustment to parenthood, breastfeeding, infant feeding, nutrition and healthy eating, normal growth and development, etc.
• health assessment and screening to identify health concerns
• information and referral to community services, and community partnerships

There are 20 Community Health Centres (8 urban and 12 rural) across the Calgary Zone.