[2] Its current building, opened on September 27, 2006, is the largest children's hospital in the prairie provinces and was the first free-standing pediatric facility to be built in Canada in more than 20 years [3].

It is located west of the University of Calgary campus grounds and across from the site of the Foothills Medical Centre.

[4] The idea for the Alberta Children's Hospital was to create a building that would reduce stress and promote healing.

The interior of the hospital has been designed to enable the delivery of family centred care.

[6] The Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute for Child and Maternal Health (ACHRI) is the Alberta Children's Hospital's affiliated research institute, and has a team of over 150 involved in the study of human development from embryo to adulthood.