Your donations offer more first dances.
From knee, shoulder, and hip replacements to spinal surgery and bone repairs, you’ll ensure our healthcare teams stay equipped to provide life-saving and life-changing surgery to thousands of patients every year.
Thanks to your donations, we’re advancing innovation in operating rooms. Like funding new surgical hip tables and procedures that reduce hospital stays.
Support Surgical Care today!Help provide life-saving and life-changing surgery to thousands of patients.
Innovation in surgery means new procedures, more minimally invasive techniques, more interventions for complex conditions, and enhanced support for patients throughout their recovery.
Did you know?
You can reduce the risk of death by doing surgery within the first 24-36 hours of injury.
The number of patients admitted with broken bones increases by almost 40% when the temperature drops below zero in Calgary.
Orthopedic trauma is top five in the world in terms of disability and death.
*Source: Alberta Health Services.
Today, approximately 70,000 Albertans are waiting for surgeries.
You can have an impact on patients requiring surgery so they can return to doing the things they enjoy doing.
Read these inspiring patient stories, highlighting how surgery innovation is critical to maintaining the quality of life for Calgarians.
Every 20 seconds, an individual with diabetes loses a limb due to poor foot health. Each year, over 700 Albertans undergo diabetes-related lower-limb amputations. Sadly, 90% of these amputations are preventable. A long-time Calgary community partnership hopes to better these statistics and improve outcomes for those living with diabetes.
Minor surgery. It’s a space that allows surgeons to perform procedures with general anesthesia or respiratory support, which makes it an important option in determining the best care path for their patients. A new minor surgery clinical space at Peter Lougheed Centre was made possible in partnership with a donation from local philanthropist, Dr. Mark Zivot.