Edmonton Zone News
News releases for the Edmonton Zone sorted by date (most recent ones appear first):
- Heart health campaign to benefit South Asian community
- Stollery to open expanded pediatric emergency department
- Local program promotes healthy weights among children
- EMS lauds boy, 7, for quick action after mother collapses
- Don’t let the bedbugs bite this holiday season
- Norovirus circulating; Edmontonians reminded to take precautions
- Remote cardiac monitoring system reaches milestone
- Study shows calcium might cut endometrial cancer risk
- Program to deliver faster treatment for lung cancer patients
- Girl, 4, Alberta’s youngest heart-lung transplant patient
- Spread joy, not germs: stay healthy this holiday season (Edmonton Zone)
- Second Quarter Performance Report 2011/2012
- AHS recruits for Addiction & Mental Health Advisory Council
- AHS releases Second Quarter financial results
- Eye cancer patients receive best treatment closer to home
- Precautionary Fire Smoke Advisory issued for Edmonton and Enoch (Edmonton Zone)
- Final three days of dedicated influenza immunization clinics in Edmonton-area
- Second addiction and mental health research chair named
- Confirmed measles in Edmonton area prompts alert
- New specialty clinics boost role of nurse practitioners
- Tomorrow Project seeks Leduc participants
- Poison and Drug Information Service marks its 25th year
- Recruitment efforts underway to replace departing doctors
- Stamina-boosting herb focus of AHS research trial
- Remote monitoring for diabetics focus of research project
- AHS drive for national urgent care road signage succeeds
- Edmonton physician receives honour from Mayo Clinic
- AHS appoints 86 to Health Advisory Councils
- AHS initiative promotes healthy weights among children
- Revolutionary heart pump transplant performed at Stollery
- AHS program helps businesses improve employee health - Edmonton
- Influenza immunization program begins October 17
- Faster acute heart care in ambulance focus of research
- Chronic disease self-management program launches today
- AHS EMS to receive ceremonial badge and flag today
- Update on former Premier Ralph Klein
- ICPACT reduces hospital visits for mental health clients
- Renamed cancer centre to get new clinical trials program
- AHS releases Q1 Performance Results
- AHS releases First Quarter financial results
- AHS appoints 16 to Provincial Advisory Council on Cancer
- Medicine Hat Regional Hospital redevelopment project
- World record attempt to raise awareness about PSA testing
- More women to benefit from cancer screening program
- Public learning how to prevent heart disease at free event
- New clinic streamlines high-risk cardiac patients into rehab
- New direction for addiction and mental health system
- AHS seeks input from Albertans using social media
- Alberta Health Services launches obesity initiative
- Food premise operators warned of inspection scam
- General surgery services resume in St. Paul this fall
- Care Transformation pilot project boosts acute care access
- Mazankowski’s green design creates health care savings
- Recruitment underway for Health Advisory Council members
- Tomorrow Project seeks St. Albert participants
- Tomorrow Project seeks Beaumont participants
- Tomorrow Project seeks Morinville participants
- Settlement agreement with Dr. Stephen Duckett concluded
- AHS reviews psychiatric facility security and procedures
- Contaminated water advisory issued for Hasse Lake in Parkland County (Edmonton Zone)
- Estimated emergency department wait times now online
- In-home speech therapy for dementia and stroke patients
- New Mazankowski cardiac MRI expected to reduce wait lists
- Helping families be healthy, stay healthy one step at a time
- Survey seeks Albertans’ opinion on healthy eating options
- Edmonton autism researchers join North American network
- Simple precautions can reduce West Nile virus risk - Edmonton
- Government of Canada & partners unveil CAREN virtual reality system at Glenrose
- Technology allows stroke specialists to share expertise
- Emergency to Home initiative expands in Edmonton
- Conference to explore impact of culture on cancer care
- President and CEO performance agreement posted
- AHS looks forward to mediator appointment in AUPE negotiations
- AHS seeks proposals for ground ambulance operations
- AHS Board approves Consolidated Financial Statements
- 2011/12 Budget targets wait-time reductions
- Fourth Quarter Performance Report 2010/11
- Making the healthy choice the easy choice
- AHS Board approves CEO contract and performance agreement
- Girl’s heart recovers while on cardiac transplant list
- Concern rises over preventable ATV injuries among children
- Infectious Syphilis/Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)
- Newborn has heart attack, thrives after heart transplant
- EMS lifesavers rally to save one of their own
- Experts from across Western Canada address Emergency Department pressures
- Two-city teamwork brings high-tech hearing test to infants
- Albertans get connected to reliable health information
- Local decision-making, physician engagement, patient care pathways drive realignment
- New CK Hui Heart Centre opens
- Sturgeon making its mark in upper limb orthopedics
- Transplant Services celebrates 25 years - Edmonton
- AHS seeks members for Provincial Advisory Council - Cancer
- AHS invests $190 million in performance target initiatives
- Dr. Chris Eagle named AHS President and CEO
- Additional ambulance provided to St. Albert
- AHS lab staff challenge each other to give blood in April
- Glenrose ‘Lights It Up Blue’ to focus on autism programs
- Community-based care reducing ED wait times
- Patients to benefit from state-of-the-art medical technology
- The greatest one-legged game in the world
- Glenrose driving simulator retrains with realism
- Fewer hospital visits for mental health clients thanks to RPACT
- New CT scanner bolsters diagnostic imaging in St. Albert
- Fort Saskatchewan’s digital X-rays now faster, sharper
- Computerized tool tracks and improves seniors care
- AHS supports U of A cardiovascular research
- New program helps residents overcome addiction issues
- Bone-amplification helps hearing
- AHS staff donate time, money for Haiti relief
- Third quarter 2010-2011 financial results released
- Fewer Admitted Patients waiting in Emergency
- Community-based hospice comes one step closer
- Technology pinpoints source of epileptic seizures
- Stroke Strategy saving lives
- Appointments to the AHS Board of Directors
- High-tech microscope lights up brain for neurosurgeons
- New addiction and mental health beds will improve access
- New hospital beds reduce ED pressures, add capacity
- Technology links remote patients with cardiologists
- Over 3,200 more cataract procedures to be performed
- New technologies bring independence to seniors
- Cochrane health centre introduces new services
- Event spotlights youth mental health programs
- Partnership improves access to local weight-loss care
- Renovated palliative care suite opens in Viking
- Medical deans appointed to AHS Board Committee
- Women’s Health Program redevelopment underway
- New knee injury clinic improves access
- 9,000 additional MRIs to be performed by March 31
- Emergency Department pressures ease
- AHS launches overcapacity protocols
- The Cube gives youngsters a leg-up during rehab
- WestView becomes a vital part of the Tri-Community area
- Stollery’s rapid response team - power to parents
- Robo-treadmill helps Albertans to walk again
- New hip and knee surgery centre
- More women benefit from less invasive gyne surgery
- More patients get life-improving dialysis
- Cardiac specialists repair hearts using remote control
- Emergency Department pressures eased at Royal Alexandra Hospital
- Stollery surgery gives young lungs room to grow
- Local invention makes rehab more effective and enjoyable
- Clinical trial seeks infants, children and their parents
- Government of Canada and AHS open Edmonton Operational Stress Injury Clinic
- Study will look at vaccine effectiveness
- New East Edmonton Health Centre officially opens
- Ten beds to be opened at Stollery Children’s Hospital
- Eight-year-old becomes province’s youngest lung-transplant recipient
- Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital receives funding for virtual reality system
- Lois Hole Hospital for Women Opens in Edmonton
- Edmonton influenza immunization clinics closing
- Edmonton vaccination clinics update
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