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Sturgeon Community Hospital, the Glossary

Located just northwest of Edmonton, the Sturgeon Community Hospital is a 167-bed hospital that provides a wide variety of health services to the community of St. Albert and surrounding area.^[1]

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Alberta Health Services

Alberta Health Services (AHS) is the single health authority for the Canadian province of Alberta and the "largest integrated provincial health care system" in Canada.

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Edmonton

Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Sturgeon Community Hospital and Edmonton are Edmonton Metropolitan Region.

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An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own means or by that of an ambulance.

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Fluoroscopy

Fluoroscopy, informally referred to as "fluoro", is an imaging technique that uses X-rays to obtain real-time moving images of the interior of an object.

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Medicare (Canada)

Medicare (assurance-maladie) is an unofficial designation used to refer to the publicly funded single-payer healthcare system of Canada.

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Radiology

Radiology is the medical specialty that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide their treatment, within the bodies of humans and other animals.

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