Grey Nuns Community Hospital

The Grey Nuns Community Hospital is an acute care hospital located in the Mill Woods area of south Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Grey Nuns Community Hospital provides a full range of services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. The 14-bed tertiary palliative care unit is known for its delivery of care and teaching practices.^[1] The hospital traces its roots to the Grey Nuns of Montreal who sent Sister Emery (Zoe LeBlanc^[2]), Adel Lamy and Alphonse (Marie Jacques)^[3] to the Edmonton area in 1859.^[4]

Grey Nuns Community Hospital
Covenant Health/Alberta Health Services
Location in Edmonton
Geography
Location	1100 Youville Drive West Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Coordinates	53.461826°N 113.429443°W / 53.461826; -113.429443
Organization
Care system	Medicare
Funding	Government hospital
Type	Acute Care
Religious affiliation	Roman Catholic
Affiliated university	University of Alberta
Network	Alberta Health Services
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	363[1]
Helipad	TC LID: CES8
Public transit access	Grey Nuns stop
History
Opened	1988
Links
Website	www.covenanthealth.ca
Lists	Hospitals in Canada

Main services

The Grey Nuns Community Hospital offers a wide range of services.^[5]

• General and Vascular Surgery
• Intensive and Cardiac Care
• Family medicine
• internal medicine
• Children's Health
• Women's Health
• Diagnostics
• Mental Health
• Ambulatory Care

Gender clinic

Lorne Warneke opened the first gender identity clinic in Canada at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital in 1996, where he served as medical director until retiring in 2017.^[6][7] Warneke was a major advocate for transgender rights and played an important role in getting Alberta Health Services to cover gender reassignment surgery in 1984, and again in 2010.^[8][9][10]

References

1. "Grey Nuns Community Hospital - Covenant Health". www.covenanthealth.ca. Covenant Health. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
2. Sanderson, Kay (1999). 200 Remarkable Alberta Women. Famous Five Foundation. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2013-05-20.
3. Dalheim, K (1955). Calahoo Trails. Calahoo Women's Institute. p. 12.^{[permanent dead link]}
4. "Celebrating the legacy of Catholic Sisters in Alberta" (PDF). Covenant Health. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 November 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
5. "Main Services". Archived from the original on 2009-02-04. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
6. Tintinaglia, Daniella (2022-12-07). "Honouring a half-century career of LGBTQ2S+ advocacy |". The Vital Beat. Retrieved 2023-06-10.
7. "EQHP Stories". Edmonton Queer History Project Stories.
8. "Dr. Lorne Warneke remembered as pivotal LGBTQ pioneer in Alberta". CBC News. Retrieved 2023-06-10.
9. "For More Than Half a Century, Dr. Lorne Warneke was Alberta's Foremost Trans Rights Advocate and Trailblazer". University of Alberta.
10. Bauer, Kirsten. "Trans rights trailblazer reflects on 50 years of social change". University of Alberta.