Whitecourt Healthcare Centre

• Day surgery
• Diagnostic imaging
• Emergency
• Hemodialysis
• Inpatient care
• Laboratory
• Obstetrics
• Visiting specialist care

For the 2011–2012 year, the emergency department assessed 15,413 patients. The visit rate is 680 visits per 1,000 people in a year, far higher than the Alberta average. The most common reason for an emergency department visit is acute upper respiratory infection with a visit rate three times that of the Alberta average. The inpatient separation rate was 99.5 per 1,000, similar to the Alberta average of 88 per 1,000. Ischemic heart disease, pneumonia and mental health were the top three reasons for inpatient separation, all higher rates than the Alberta average.^[3]