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100 Avenue is a major arterial road in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The road starts as Stony Plain Road ( Alberta Highway 16A ), and as it approaches Anthony Henday Drive it separates into westbound and eastbound one-way streets.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Coordinates 53°36′15″N 113°25′02″W / 53.60417°N 113.41722°W / 53.60417; -113.41722 ( Northeast Community Health
Cross Cancer Institute is the comprehensive cancer centre for northern Alberta. The institute, named for Wallace Warren Cross, is located in Edmonton near the southwest corner of the University of Alberta, and is one of two tertiary cancer centres in the province. The Cross Cancer Institute is a lead centre for the province-wide prevention ...
The hospital as an organization was founded in 1900, and it used rented facilities in its early years. Its first dedicated building opened in 1906 on the northwest corner of Hardisty Avenue and 11th Street [5] (modern 98th Avenue and 111 Street in Oliver). It moved to its new building in West Meadowlark Park upon its completion in 1969. [6]
The hospital was also a place where medical testing was performed on natives, and from where indigenous children were abducted to be adopted by non-indigenous. A new 385-bed Charles Camsell Hospital was completed in 1966-1967 at 128th Street and 114th Avenue in Edmonton, Alberta.
The University Hospital's Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute is the largest heart transplant program in Canada. It is the centre for all open-heart surgery for Edmonton & Northern Alberta, and the centre for all complex pediatric cardiac surgery for Western & Northern Canada. The institute performs more than 1,300 open-heart surgeries annually ...
The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at University of Alberta is located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Established in 1913, it is one of the oldest medical schools in Western Canada [ 1 ] and is composed of 21 departments, two stand-alone divisions, 9 research groups, and 24 research centers and institutes. [ 2 ]
Lorne Warneke opened the first gender identity clinic in Canada at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital in 1996, where he served as medical director until retiring in 2017. [6] [7] Warneke was a major advocate for transgender rights and played an important role in getting Alberta Health Services to cover gender reassignment surgery in 1984, and again in 2010.