2020-10-23

Introducing Wave 2

The Connect Care community is thrilled to welcome Wave 2 colleagues, who have excelled at getting ready for launch in the early hours of Saturday morning. Some facts to introduce the Wave 2 cohort...

Wave 2 launches at suburban sites in the Edmonton Zone:

  • Sturgeon Community Hospital
  • Fort Saskatchewan Hospital
  • Devon General Hospital
  • Leduc Community Hospital
  • Northeast Community Health Centre
  • Strathcona Community Hospital
  • Westview Health Centre

Other locations will have some partial launches:

  • Plaza 124 Building
  • Seventh Street Plaza
  • University of Alberta dialysis 

There are 4,875 staff and over 1,100 prescribers (physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and dentists):

  • 1,066 physicians
  • 33 nurse practitioners
  • 2 nurse practitioner students
  • 15 clinical assistants
  • 3 physician assistants

Other Wave 2 providers include:

  • 456 inpatient nurses
  • 319 rural nurses
  • 35 pharmacists
  • 75 respiratory therapists  
  • 23 midwives

With Waves 1 and 2 combined, there will be 27,000 staff and prescribers using Connect Care.