Rockyview General Hospital

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.

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.

The building was designed by Culham Pedersen Valentine, and built at a cost of $90 Million. 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.

Clinics
Location of Rockyview General Hospital in Calgary The facility contains 19 clinics :


 * Breast Feeding
 * Bronchoscopy
 * Cast
 * Cystoscopy
 * Enterostomal Therapy
 * Emergency Cast
 * General Ante-partum
 * General Cardiology
 * Hand
 * Home Visit


 * Infectious Disease
 * Medical Geriatric
 * OBS Gyne
 * Ophthalmology
 * Orthopedic
 * Outreach
 * Pacemaker
 * Pain
 * Pre op Assessment

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.