Rockyview General Hospital (RGH) is a large hospital in Alberta, Canada. It is located in the city of Calgary, on the shores of the Glenmore Reservoir and is administered by the Calgary Health Region. A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... Motto: Fortis et liber (Latin: Strong and free) Official languages English (see below) Flower   Wild rose Tree Lodgepole Pine Bird Great Horned Owl Capital Edmonton Largest city Calgary Lieutenant-Governor Norman Kwong Premier Ed Stelmach (PC) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 28 6 Area Total  - Land  - Water  (% of total... Calgary is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. ... The Glenmore Reservoir is a large manmade reservoir on the Elbow River in the southwest quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. ... Calgary Health Region is the governing body for healthcare regulation in an area of the Canadian province of Alberta. ...

Rockyview General Hospital overlooking Glenmore Reservoir

The hospital contains over 500 beds and provides medical and surgical services to Calgary and southern Alberta. It has a 24 hours emergency service, an intensive care unit, maternal newborn program, day surgery unit, mental health and psychiatric service,senior health and ambulatory care. The Lions Eye Bank is a regional centre for recovery of donated eye tissue for corneal transplants. A cardiothoracic surgeon performs a mitral valve replacement at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center. ... Southern Alberta is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta. ... Mental states redirects here. ... Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). ... An ambulance in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico A Helicopter used as an Ambulance. ... Cornea Transplant A cornea transplant, also known as a corneal graft or penetrating keratoplasty, is a surgical procedure where a damaged or diseased cornea is replaced by a donor. ...

The building was designed by Culham Pedersen Valentine, and built at a cost of $90 Million.^[1] It had a total surface of 69,952 m², and an additional 23,000 m² were added in 1995. Further expansion in 2004 added another 100 beds.

The hospital is undergoing expansion and upgrades, with two operating theatres to be added to the surgical suite, and vertical expansion of the Highwood Building.^[2] An operating theatre or operating room is a room within a hospital within which surgical operations are carried out. ...

Clinics

Location of Rockyview General Hospital in Calgary

The facility contains 19 clinics^[3]: Image File history File links Dot-yellow. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (960x1192, 791 KB) [edit] Summary [edit] Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Glenmore Reservoir Bowness, Alberta Kensington, Calgary Inglewood, Calgary McKenzie Lake, Calgary Foothills Medical Centre... A clinic or outpatient clinic is a small medical facility that provides health care for ambulatory patients - as opposed to inpatients treated in a hospital. ...

In addition, ambulatory care include Medicine, Respiratory, GI/GU, Surgery, Diabetes in Pregnancy, Pulmonary Respiratory Exercise Program, Lithotripsy, Pacemaker Clinic, Paediatric Clinic, Geriatric Outpatient Consultation and Geriatric Mental Health.

See also

• Health care in Calgary
• Health care in Canada
• Calgary Health Region
• List of hospitals in Canada

Foothills Medical Centre Calgary currently has three major hospitals; the Foothills Medical Centre, the Rockyview General Hospital and the Peter Lougheed Centre, all overseen by the Calgary Health Region. ... Canadas health care system is a publicly funded health care system, with most services provided by private entities. ... Calgary Health Region is the governing body for healthcare regulation in an area of the Canadian province of Alberta. ... This is a list of hospitals in Canada. ...

References

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External links

• Rockyview General Hospital

Coordinates: 50°59′27″N, 114°05′52″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...