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:
- 26 bed intensive care unit and 24 bed cardiac care unit
- Trauma centre for Southern Alberta
- 18 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
- 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 cardiac magnetic resonance facility in Canada, as measured by number of peer-reviewed articles published, and part of the 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.
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