Women & Children's Health
Your support helps drive excellence in care through every stage of life, ensuring a healthier future for women and children across Alberta.
Donate today to support women and children’s health in your community.
Women's HealthHistorical gaps in women’s health research & clinical treatment have negatively impacted the opportunity for women worldwide to live their healthiest lives. Your support can help create better equity of care, advancing the health & well-being of women in our province for generations to come. | Children's HealthYour support can impact thousands of children every year – from the tiniest babies needing critical care, to kids needing emergency room visits, vulnerable children experiencing food insecurity and high-risk teens facing mental illness, violence and substance misuse. | |
Women's Health
Enhancing care for women in areas such as maternity, menopause, osteoporosis and heart health at the Misericordia and Grey Nuns hospitals, and advancing breast cancer care at the Misericordia are just several examples of the difference you can make. With the support of community partners like you, we’ve helped the Misericordia become a centre of excellence for breast cancer, performing the highest rate of same-day mastectomies in the province and completing the most reconstructive breast surgeries for the Edmonton area and Northern Alberta combined.
70%
Of reconstructive breast surgeries in Edmonton and Northern Alberta happen at the Misericordia Community Hospital
5,269
Served at breastfeeding clinics
984
Helped at menopause clinic
1,055
Breast cancer surgeries performed
Children's Health
Your support can impact thousands of children every year - from the tiniest babies needing critical care, to kids needing emergency room visits, vulnerable children experiencing food insecurity and high-risk teens facing mental illness, violence and substance misuse.
With your help, we can invest in family centred programs and spaces, and better equip Covenant’s frontline teams as they work hard every year to:
8,500
Deliver over 8,500 babies – 1 in 5 babies born in Alberta
2,500
Care for over 2,500 critically ill babies in the NICUs at the Grey Nuns and Misericordia hospitals
2,000
Provide trauma-informed care to over 2,000 kids and youth at the Foster Care Clinic at the Grey Nuns
10,000
Serve over 10,000 children through the Child Health Clinic at the Grey Nuns and Misericordia