About AHS

Who We Are

• Alberta Health Services delivers health care programs and services to 3.7 million Albertans - Canada’s largest health care provider, with 90,000 staff, working with 10,000 physicians
• Annual budget exceeds $11 billion
• 102 hospitals, 6,800 acute care beds, 18,000 long-term care and supportive living beds, plus equity partnership in 33 Primary Care Networks
• Canada’s first province-wide, fully integrated health system, established in 2008

Integrating Health Care Delivery & Leading Edge Research

• True bench-to-bedside care: an integrated system of research, clinical education and patient care at major tertiary hospitals
• Substantial university-based research, including two medical schools, closely integrated with healthcare delivery service  
• Alberta scientists invented The ReJoyce (Rehabilitation Joystick for Computerized Exercise) system that improves the quality of life for people who have weak or paralysed hands following a stroke or brain injury.
• In June 2010, Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions awarded $43 million in funding support to 37 outstanding health researchers across the province – among the richest research awards in Canada
• Another "Made in Alberta" advance:  The ginseng-based Cold-fX, which has been clinically proven to battle cold and flu viruses