AHS is increasing capacity across the health system to provide care spaces for patients with COVID-19, including expanding the number of acute care and ICU beds.
As part of overall contingency planning, AHS is working with the Canadian Red Cross to set up an Alternate Care Centre (ACC) at the Butterdome at the University of Alberta.
The ACC could add an additional 100 inpatient beds, which will be kept in reserve, for use only if needed. This is purely precautionary.
The beds would be used for patients recovering from COVID-19 and who are deemed to be at low risk of transmitting the virus by Infection Prevention and Control. Other low-acuity patients could also be cared for in the centre.
This is not the first time AHS has worked to increase capacity by using non-traditional healthcare facilities as part of our pandemic response. AHS used the Butterdome for patient care in the spring, and a temporary structure has been in place for months at Peter Lougheed Centre.
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