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Foothills Medical Centre

When you make a gift as a grateful patient or family member, you have the opportunity to express gratitude and share messages of thanks to staff who made a difference to you. Your gift will make a difference to care today – and into the future for others!

 

ABOUT FOOTHILLS MEDICAL CENTRE

Foothills Medical Centre (FMC) is the tertiary specialized referral centre for Southern Alberta, Southeastern British Columbia, and parts of Saskatchewan. It is home to the largest integrated teaching and research collaborations in Canada alongside the University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine, resulting in medical innovation across a variety of cross-functional teams.

The Foothills Medical Centre is the single Southern Alberta hospital for a wide range of specialty services including trauma, clinical neurology, cardiac sciences, tissue and organ transplantation, complex general oncology surgery, and cancer care. Within these areas of care there are a number of subspecialties in which teams are world-class leaders.

 

Spotlight Specialities

  • Southern Alberta Trauma Program
  • Cardiac Surgery and Interventional Cardiology
  • Neurosurgery
  • Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT)
  • Thoracic Surgery
  • Critical Care —Neonatal Intensive Care; High Risk Labour & Delivery; Adult Intensive Care (Neuro, Trauma, Coronary and Cardiovascular)
  • Transplant Services and Southern Alberta Organ and Tissue Donation Program
  • Burn Unit
  • Calgary Stroke Program
  • Specialty Women’s Health
  • Diagnostic Imaging and PET Scanner
  • Cancer care

Quick Facts

1966 Opened

1,103 Beds

15,000 Staff

1,700 Physicians

46,400* Patients Admitted
*2019/2020 data

85,000+ Emergency Visits

21,000 Surgeries

5,900+ Births

230,995* Medical outpatients (per year)
*2019/2020 data

Support Foothills Medical Centre

Recovery from a brain emergency is possible

The lives of healthy, active people can change in an instant – mere seconds – as a result of a brain emergency. Your gift to Calgary Health Foundation this holiday season will help our family of hospitals improve neurocritical care specialty services.

Supporting frontline care

Health care heroes continue to care for us in our greatest time of need. Your donation will help our care teams as they remain tirelessly committed to ensure that every person receives the best care they need when they need it.

Together we gave every newborn a fighting chance

In Calgary, 1 in 8 infants are born premature and require the lifesaving support of the city’s Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Your generosity helped us reach our goal of raising $66m to get these newborns just what they need: the expansion of the Foothills NICU, funding for family-centered care initiatives and investment into preterm birth research.

"I had prepared my overnight bag, but was not prepared for what was about to come. We were impressed at how diligent the communications between physicians and hospitals had been. When the Foothills team was aware of my specific case when I arrived at the hospital, it reduced my fear of delivering so prematurely,”

Tess Harvey

Foothills Medical Centre

Stories

Breakthroughs happen and lives are transformed at Foothills Medical Centre every day. Here are just a few examples.

13-year-old donates proceeds of auction to Calgary Health Foundation

After losing Mark Stormoen, a family friend to a quadding accident, Logan Henderson decided to auction his steer and donate all the proceeds to the Foothills Medical Centre, where Mark received care.

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Thriving against all odds

Ryan and Kristine went from lowest of lows to the highest of highs in just 12 hours, after their daughter was born two months premature. What stands out most for Ryan regarding the care they received was how amazing the nurses were.

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Putting trust in strangers

Amy and Josh were eagerly awaiting the arrival of their triplets in 2013 when they found themselves at the Foothills Medical Centre at only 24 weeks pregnant. They knew that their babies would likely be arriving early, but not that early.

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Golf – The Game of Life

Not too many people know the game of golf better than the Director of Golf at Valley Ridge Golf Course, Curtis Robertson. And he would be able to relate all too well to this quote from Bobby Jones: “Golf is the closest game to the game we call life.

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Celebrating dads who are making a difference

After going through an unexpected premature birth, it’s important for Bryan Argue to now lend the Dad perspective and to support other families currently experiencing what their family went through.

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Our nurses, our future

At Calgary Health Foundation, we are grateful every day for the nurses working long hours to make a difference for patients and their families – impacting their entire health care journey. As we recognize National Nurses Week and International Nurses Day, we are excited to showcase one of these incredible nurses going above and beyond every day, Jacqui Brand.

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