Alberta Children's Hospital (ACH) is the largest public hospital for sick children in the prairie provinces, and is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is operated by Alberta Health Services - Calgary Health Region. The new facility opened on September 27, 2006 and is the first free-standing pediatric facility to be built in Canada in more than 20 years. It is located west of the University of Calgary campus grounds and just across from the site of the Foothills Medical Centre.
ACH is one five in Canada (others being Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver and IWK Health Centre in Halifax).
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