Acute Medical Sports Injury and Fracture Clinic

Assesses and treats both adult and pediatric patients with the following acute injuries:

• fractures not requiring emergent surgery
• soft tissue acute sports injuries
• concussion diagnosis and management
• ultrasound guided joint aspirations and injections

Also provides acute management of all sports related injuries including:

• concussion
• sprains
• muscles strains
• contusions

This clinic does not assess long-standing chronic injuries or chronic back pain.

Addiction and Mental Health - Specialized Community Services, Adult

Intervention services provided include:

• individual and group therapy
• psychiatric consultation
• consultation to the Emergency Department at NECHC
• telephone Intake assessments

The Addiction and Mental Health program is imbedded in a primary care setting; a shared care style of practice is utilized by all staff through ongoing collaboration with physicians involved with the care of mutual clients/patients. The client population served are those patients served by the NECHC and those within the Northeast geographical location.

Cafeteria Services

This service is responsible for all in-house food and drink, and catering in Alberta Health Services facilities. Third-party operated food and drink outlets, and vending machines are available in various Alberta Health Services facilities. The team is dedicated to providing fresh, high-quality food and drinks at competitive prices.

Child and Adolescent Health Services

School-Aged Adolescent Service: For school-aged children and teenagers dealing with social/emotional/behavioural, developmental, and adolescent medicine issues in the northeast community.

Outreach Services includes providing students at Braemar School with medical services. Braemar School is a public school for pregnant or parenting teen mothers. Medical Services include timely primary care, counselling, and treatment for both themselves and/or their babies.

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

Children's Asthma Clinic

Helps children manage their asthma. Services include:

• teaching the child about asthma
• ongoing assessment of the child
• communicating with and updating the child’s doctor

Community Audiology Services

Services include:

• standard hearing assessment and follow-up for anyone 6 months and older
• follow-up recommendations and management of hearing loss

Clinic doesn't offer hearing aid services. These services are accessed privately.

Diabetic Nephropathy Prevention Clinics - Northern Alberta Renal Program

This service:

• assesses people with diabetes  to help prevent or delay diabetic nephropathy
• teaches about diabetic nephropathy
• provides information about managing diabetes, hypertension, and cholesterol

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

Drop In for New Mothers / Families and Infants

Mothers / families can talk with a public health nurse about health issues or concerns about their infant or preschoolers (e.g., growth, nutrition, common health concerns) or parenting issues.

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.

Family Health Clinic

Provides people in Northeast Edmonton with health care services in a teaching clinic.

This service tries to help people who might have issues accessing healthcare, including low-income families, recent immigrants or refugees, aboriginal people, elderly people who are frail, and people with mental illness.

This is a teaching clinic for the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. It trains resident doctors and medical, nursing, and nurse practitioner students.

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.

Geriatric Outpatient - Medicine

This outpatient service provides in-depth assessment, diagnosis, and treatment recommendations to adults over 65.

Health Information - Access and Disclosure

In accordance with Alberta’s Health Information Act, this is a service which enables the release of individually identifiable health information with or without the consent of an individual.

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.

Healthy Beginnings Postpartum Program

Provides nursing care and support including:

• health assessments of Mom & Baby
• breastfeeding support
• information about parenting and baby 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.

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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• Progams & Services
• Hospitals & Facilities

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

Laboratory Services

This service provides a comprehensive range of routine and specialized lab testing and clinical consultation, services may include:

• blood and body fluid sample collection
• biochemistry and toxicology
• urinalysis
• transfusion medicine
• hematology
• coagulation studies
• microbiology
• serology
• surgical pathology
• cytopathology
• autopsy pathology
• student practicum training for medical lab technologists and medical lab assistants

Lost and Found

Please call the Security Office to see if your item has been found.

New Moms Network

Available across the Edmonton area, these sessions provide an opportunity for women to connect with other new moms and learn more about the health and development of their child.

Nutrition Counselling - Healthy Pregnancy Weight Gain

This nutrition counselling session is for pregnant women to help them achieve a healthy weight gain during pregnancy. Most teaching is done individually, but there are some group sessions. You may have a follow-up appointment if needed.

Patient Information

Services offered:

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

Protective Services

Protective Services responsibilities include:

• safety of patients, staff, and visitors
• protection of hospital and personal property
• patrolling and observing activities in all areas of the hospital
• prevention and detection of criminal activities
• investigations conducted into security and fire-related matters
• responding to security alarms, fire alarms, medical emergencies, hazardous situations
• access control
• lost and found
• fire safety
• safe walking
• assisting with parking

Public Health Centres

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

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 Dental Services

 Services include:

• fluoride treatment
• dental Sealants

School Health Nursing Services

Services include:

• immunizations
• promoting healthy school communities
• resources and support services for students, parents, and teachers
• referrals to other services

School Health Services

Services include:

• School Health Nursing
• School Dental Services

For more information visit our website.

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.

Sexual Assault Response Team

Specially trained Registered Nurses with specialized education in sexual assault care. The SART offers victims of sexual assault (14 years and older) compassionate, confidential and non-judgmental care in the Edmonton Zone.

This service is provided with or without police involvement in emergency rooms of 10 hospitals in the Edmonton Zone.

Switchboard

These services include:

• answering incoming telephone calls
• transferring telephone calls and
• giving out authorized telephone numbers

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.

Ultrasound

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.

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.

Women's Health Clinic

Our service provides:

• contraception councelling 
• prenatal care, support, and education
• gynaecological care

Specializied support for women

• who have qualified for low-income support
• single parents
• high-risk lifestyles 
• teen mothers
• new to Canada who have cultural and language barriers
• in youth or other emergency shelters or transitional housing
• in jail
• in a residential drug treatment program