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Happy Holidays from the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation! Click on the links below to hear holiday greetings from members of our Board of Directors. Wishing you and yours a wonderful festive season.

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Did You Know?

The Royal Alexandra Hospital services a geographic area that amounts to one third of Canada's total land mass.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital cares for 450,000 patients annually.

More than 28,000 surgeries are performed annually at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital’s Cardiac Services program is nationally recognized for its innovative work in the non-invasive treatment of heart disease.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital’s Aboriginal Diabetes Wellness Program was established in 1994 and integrates western medical knowledge with Aboriginal spirituality, medicines and traditional teachings.

In the 1980s, the Royal Alexandra Hospital became the first centre in North America to perform diagnostic cardiac angiograms as a day-patient procedure. This has since been established as standard practice around the world.

The Foundation’s eldest volunteer to date is a spry 83-year old; our youngest, a little girl who is eight.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital has provided patients, visitors, staff and volunteers with a smoke free site since 2005.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital has a Visual Arts Committee which offers artists an opportunity to exhibit their works throughout the hospital campus.

The hospital’s Gift Shop is staffed by volunteers from the Royal Alexandra Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, which was founded in 1899.

If language is an obstacle to clear communication, the Royal Alexandra Hospital provides interpreters for patients and their families at no cost.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital is the largest provider of cardiology services in Edmonton. Two-thirds of minimally invasive cardiac care services for Central and Northern Alberta, such as the radial approach to complex angioplasty and stenting, are performed at the Royal Alex.

Canada's first ever, stand-alone orthopedic centre is now under construction on the Royal Alexandra Hospital campus. The $60-million Orthopedic Surgery Centre is expected to be complete in 2010 and will accommodate 4,500 joint surgeries a year.

The C.K. Hui Heart Centre, opening in 2009 at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, will provide more efficient and streamlined care to the 50,000 heart patients we see each year.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital was the first location in Western Canada to begin using the da Vinci S robotic surgery system for laparoscopic radical prostatectomies - a procedure that removes the prostate gland and some surrounding tissue - to treat prostate cancer.

Our Hospital, Our Voices: 2011 Annual Report

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation is pleased to present it's 2010-2011 Annual Report.

This year’s theme, Our Hospital, Our Voices, reflects upon the very tangible pride and passion that people have for the Royal Alexandra Hospital. Whether they are generous donors, the hospital’s dedicated staff or its grateful patients, many people feel a very personal connection to the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

With our hospital growing so much, this connection is only getting stronger. We have seen a lot of change at the Royal Alex over the past decade and in particular the past year. This change has come in the form of new services, new programs, and new facilities at the hospital.

All of this change and growth at the Royal Alexandra Hospital is very exciting and very gratifying, because it means one thing: better patient care. Our Hospital, Our Voices shares some of the stories of how lives are being changed – and saved – at the Royal Alex.

Please browse our interactive Annual Report page »

Reaching the Summit for the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

While Kilimanjaro Climb 2011 is over, our fundraising efforts haven't ended. Your help is still needed to ensure Albertans are able to receive orthopedic care that is second to none in the world.

Kilimanjaro Soldiers As you may have heard, this summer a group of Edmontonians climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in support of the new Orthopedic Surgery Centre at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. For four of those climbers, that journey held an extra special significance.

Warrant Officer Quinn Beggs, Corporal Mark Fuchko, Corporal Lucas Mullens, and Corporal Dallas White are all members of the Canadian Forces who served our country in Afghanistan.

Together with the rest our Kilimanjaro team, these soldiers went above and beyond to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, but the work didn’t stop there. We still need your help to reach our financial summit.

Donate now and help us reach our financial summit!

This is a centre that will provide new hips and knees to thousands of Albertans every year - including Canadian soldiers returning from duty who have been injured. Our goal is to raise enough money to purchase two $500,000 Surgical Navigation System and we are almost there. These are life changing systems that can produce life changing moments and with your donation we will reach the summit.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation is proud to have these brave men join us in supporting such an important fundraising effort. I hope that we can also count on your support today.

Sharlene Rutherford
Vice President
Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

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