Foothills Medical Centre
Foothills Medical Centre | |
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Level I Trauma Center | |
Beds | 1,100+ [1] |
Helipad | TC LID: CMT3 |
History | |
Opened | 1966 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in Canada |
Foothills Medical Centre (FMC) is the largest hospital in the province of
The main building of the hospital was opened in June 1966. It was originally named Foothills Provincial General Hospital and later known simply as Foothills Hospital. With the addition of other medical facilities, it became known by its present name.
Information
Foothills Medical Centre is an accredited Level 1
FMC includes the
Apart from these distinctions, FMC boasts the world's first and most powerful movable MRI machine, which was introduced in January 2009. It will help patients at the Foothills Medical Centre (FMC) receive the world's safest, most accurate surgery possible.
Alberta Health Services
The Foothills Medical Centre is one of twelve hospitals in the Calgary zone, which has a population of 1,408,606 and an average life expectancy of 82.9 years.[12]
Current description
In addition to a 24-hour emergency room and inpatient care, FMC has 57 outpatient clinics on site. This facility provides comprehensive and specialized medical and surgical services to Calgary and Southern Alberta:
- 33 bed intensive care unit and 24 bed cardiac intensive care unit
- Level 1 Trauma centre for Southern Alberta
- 8 bed burn unit
- 28 operating theatres - including a specially designated trauma operating room
- High risk maternity and neonatal intensive care unit
- PARTY Program (Prevent Alcohol & Risk Related Trauma in Youth Program for Grade 9 secondary school students)
- PADIS (poison & drug information)
- Southern Alberta Renal Program[13]
- Intraoperative MR - magnetic resonance system (first of its kind in the world, located in the Seaman's Family MR Research Centre)
- Stephenson Cardiac MR Centre - the leading Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta
- Multiple transplantation such as kidney, pancreas, corneal and tissue transplants
- HOPE Program (Human Organ Procurement and Exchange)
- University of Calgary Medical Clinic (UCMC) clinics
- The Colon Cancer Screening Centre - providing screening colonoscopies to hundreds of patients a month
Chronology of hospital projects
1958
- Provincial and territorial hospital insurance plans. The Prime Minister of Canada, John Diefenbaker, declares federal grants are available to provincial hospital-care projects, 50 cents on the dollar financing, from Ottawa.[14]
1965
- Main building completed, Foothills Hospital.[15]
- First school of nursing class begins study.
1966
- February, main Hospital Phase II complete.
- April, first out-patients and glaucoma laboratory.
- June, Foothills Hospital opens.[16]
- During opening year, "Patient Care" booklet describes new hospital:
- "Largest completely new hospital of its kind constructed in North America; 765,000 square feet (71,100 m2) of floor space; 2,000 rooms. psychiatric hospital which will be operated under separate administration. Capital financing for construction was by the usual Federal Provincial grants plus a $17 million debenture issue to be retired by the Provincial Government over a 20-year period. Operation costs will be met by the standard per diem payments made under Alberta Hospitalization Benefits. Complete hospital control is vested in the board of Management."[16]
- "Largest completely new hospital of its kind constructed in North America; 765,000 square feet (71,100 m2) of floor space; 2,000 rooms.
- Pathology labs (medical laboratory) begins using advanced equipment to provide a complete pathology service.
- Residence for 329 nursing students is linked as teaching hospital support of Foothills Hospital.
- Planning continues for 100-bed auxiliary hospital and 370 beds for psychiatric patients.
- 1966 to 2007 and beyond
- Hospital expands, largest hospital of the province of Alberta to be Foothills Medical Centre.
2001
- November, new 14-bed inpatient stroke unit, Unit 100.[17]
2006
- October 19, as part of a C$1.7 billion expansion for Foothills Medical Centre the Calgary Health Region named the new tower the JR (Bud) McCaig Tower after well-known local philanthropist, Bud McCaig. McCaig who had died in 2005 was the founder of Alberta Bone & Joint Health Institute.[18]
2010
- C$460M 8-storey tower, JR (Bud) McCaig Tower.
- JR (Bud) McCaig Tower adds to largest hospital of province Alberta:[19]
- 8 operating rooms
- 36-bed intensive care unit (only 26 beds funded)
- 93 inpatient beds
- 21 short-stay beds
- Diagnostic imaging
- Southern Alberta Tissue Program
- Calgary Laboratory Services
- space for expansion (16 operating rooms)
- Expanded and renovated emergency department (main building)
- Musculoskeletal (MSK) Clinic
- Bone and Joint Program includes MSK Clinic, surgery, and teaching facilities
- Surgical processing
- Admitting
2017 (2023)
- C$1.4B Calgary Cancer Centre.
- Construction begins to add new building to largest hospital in Alberta:[20]
- 160 inpatient beds
- 12 radiation vaults
- 100 patient exam rooms
- 100 chemotherapy chairs
- 1,650 underground parking spaces
- 984-linear feet of elevated walkway
Parking
The Foothills Medical Centre has eleven parking lots with payment options including passes: monthly ($71), weekly ($40), daily ($14.25) or half-hour ($2 per half-hour or portion) with some discounts for seniors, etc., with authorization forms. A general monthly pass with no authorization form costs $125 if available. Some parking lots/stalls are designated for people with disabilities only.[21]
In popular culture
The Foothills Medical Centre is alluded to in the
See also
References
- ^ https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/news/features/2016/Page13212.aspx#:~:text=Opened%20in%201966%2C%20Foothills%20Medical,southeastern%20BC%20and%20southern%20Saskatchewan.
- ^ Alberta Health Services (2017). Calgary Zone Trauma Services Annual Report (PDF). Edmonton: Alberta Health Services. p. 33. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
- ^ "Trauma Services". Alberta Health Services. Archived from the original on March 10, 2009. Retrieved June 28, 2009.
- ^ "Welcome to Toronto Rehabilitation Institute". www.uhn.ca.
- ^ "Calgary Kiosk". Archived from the original on April 29, 2007. Retrieved June 28, 2009.
- ^ "Home". PCL Constructors.
- ^ a b Services, Alberta Health. "Page Not Found". Alberta Health Services. Archived from the original on June 6, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
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- ^ "First Robotic Surgery To Remove Tumour". Archived from the original on April 27, 2010. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
- ^ "Robot performs world's first surgery to remove brain tumour". Thaindian News.
- ^ "Two Canadian centres awarded Stroke Distinction Calgary Stroke Program, Toronto Rehab earn special accreditation". Canadian Stroke Network. Archived from the original on June 29, 2014. Retrieved June 22, 2012.
- ^ "Zone News Calgary Zone: Your Health Care in Your Community 2013" (PDF). Alberta Health Services. January 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 19, 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
- ^ "Southern Alberta Renal Program (SARP) > home page". Archived from the original on October 11, 2006. Retrieved October 28, 2006.
- ^ "History of the Canada Health Act" Archived May 12, 2006, at the Wayback Machine by webpage editors of the Maple Leaf Web, 2001-July 7, 2005-. Retrieved March 19, 2007.
- ^ "Public Open House on the long-term plans for the Foothills Medical Centre" (PDF). Calgary Health Region. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 17, 2006. Retrieved February 1, 2007.
- ^ a b Foothills Hospital editor(s) (1966). "Patient Care", "Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada". J. D. Francis & Associates, publishers, Calgary, printed by Alcraft Printing, Canada, 1966. p. (unnumbered booklet page).
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has generic name (help) - ^ "Renovated Unit at Foothills Hospital Keeps Calgary at Forefront in Canada in Treatment of Acute Stroke" (PDF). Calgary Health Region. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2007. Retrieved January 30, 2007.
- ^ "Region names new Foothills Medical Centre Tower after well-known local philanthropist" Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine news release by Calgary Health Region Communications & Community Relations, October 19, 2006. Retrieved June 18, 2007
- ^ "Plans for Growth". Calgary Health Region. Archived from the original on February 3, 2007. Retrieved February 1, 2007.
- ^ "Calgary Cancer Centre will deliver cutting-edge care with 'uninterrupted views,' province says". CBC News. June 15, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
- ^ "Public Parking Information Foothills Medical Centre" (PDF). Calgary, Alberta: Alberta Health Services. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 19, 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
- ^ "Looking for a place to happen". cbc.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. pp. Take Forever. Retrieved November 16, 2020.