Health Minister Jason Copping speaks at a presentation regarding the Calgary Cancer Centre, December 9, 2022. (Photo: Government of Alberta)

By David Opinko/LethbridgeNewsNOW

Construction complete on Calgary Cancer Centre, set to open in 2024

Dec 9, 2022 | 3:39 PM

CALGARY – The Government of Alberta has announced a major update on the new Calgary Cancer Centre.

Construction on the $1.4 billion, 186,000-square-metre facility in the city’s northwest, is complete.

Lethbridge-East MLA Nathan Neudorf, also Alberta’s deputy premier and minister of infrastructure, says the project is now being handed over from his ministry to Alberta Health Services.

“Delivering a complex health facility requires collaboration and dedicated efforts from a large number of highly skilled professionals, which are managed and coordinated by Alberta Infrastructure, together with Alberta Health and AHS. Public infrastructure projects like this are an integral part of building for Alberta’s future and providing excellent health care for Albertans,” says Neudorf. “It is with great pride that we hand this facility over to Alberta Health Services.”

Health Minister Jason Copping says the centre will consolidate and expand cancer services in the province.

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It will include outpatient cancer clinics, 160 inpatient unit beds, wet and dry research labs, clinical and operational support services, clinical trials unit and research labs, systemic and radiation treatment services including 15 radiation vaults, and a new on-site underground parking unit with 1,650 stalls.

AHS official administrator Dr. John Cowell adds, “The Calgary Cancer Centre will help provide patients in Calgary and southern Alberta with a multidisciplinary health system, enabling access to comprehensive cancer care services in a world-class facility.”

Cowell says approximately 200,000 Albertans are currently living with cancer.

The Calgary Cancer Centre is expected to open sometime in 2024.