Bringing Hearts Home

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A. Everyone in
Southern Alberta

You. Your family. Your spouse. Your neighbours. The farmers in the fields. The people you pass on your commute. People undergoing emergency care. Pregnant mothers and newborn babies.

Everyone.

It's a fact: heart disease can affect anyone at any stage of life. And that's why the Southern Alberta Cardiac Centre of Excellence will positively affect us all.

Helping the Most Vulnerable Groups

Critically, Acutely, and Chronically Ill

Chronic and acute sufferers of cardiac disease will have life-saving or life-lengthening care closer to home.

Caregivers

Caregivers of cardiac sufferers will have their burdens reduced and be able to spend more quality time with their loved one.

Children

The pediatric and neo-natal population of southern Alberta will be substantially impacted by Bringing Hearts Home with the addition of Echocardiography Labs at Chinook Regional Hospital and Medicine Hat Regional Hospital.

First Nations

Indigenous peoples have higher rates of cardiac death than non-Indigenous peoples - +30% for men and +76% for women - and no other population has worse outcomes.

Community

Anyone entering a hospital for cardiac or critial care will benefit from advanced services, expanded programs, infrastructure that meets current standard, and state-of-the-art technology.

Spotlight: Chronic
Cardiac Patients

"Because of the lack of facilities in southern Alberta, we have to send over 1,300 patients to Foothills Hospital to receive treatment every year," says Dr. Sayeh Zielke, AHS South Zone Cardiac Services Physician Lead.

"That's over 1,300 patients driving or being driven on up to seven-hour round trips to regularly receive treatment. Just think of how many thousands of kilometres of travel that is each year.

Let's do somethign about it - let's make this familiar burden the road less travelled for our community."