Provincewide Services

Provincewide Services are highly specialized procedures, such as organ transplants and major heart surgeries. Due to their specialization, these services can only be delivered effectively and efficiently at one or two sites: Edmonton and Calgary.

• Provincewide Services are available to all Albertans in addition to basic health services.

Almost 10 per cent of the Provincewide Services budget is allocated for high-cost drugs such as:

• Transplant Drugs – Transplant patients are eligible for immunosuppressants.
• HIV Drugs – Drugs for the treatment of patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection are dispensed through the Southern and Northern Alberta Clinics.
• Other Drugs – Other drugs funded by Provincewide Services include Pulmozyme (for cystic fibrosis), human growth hormone (for pediatric growth hormone deficiency and chronic renal failure), Flolan (for primary pulmonary hypertension) and Visudyne (for classic form of wet age-related macular degeneration).