side of the University of Calgary campus are accessible from FMC via West Campus Boulevard. Apart from these distinctions, FMC boasts the world's first and most powerful movable MRI machine, which was introduced in January 2009. It will help patients at the Foothills Medical Centre (FMC) receive the world's safest, most accurate surgery possible. In addition, the world's first robotic surgery to remove a brain tumour was performed on a patient at the FMC, which also created a landmark in Canadian medical history. In June 2010, the Calgary Stroke Program, an initiative of the Foothills Medical Centre, was awarded the "Stroke Services Distinction" and is recognized as one of two leading stroke centres in Canada, the other in Toronto, by Accreditation Canada. Alberta Health Services The Foothills Medical Centre is one of twelve hospitals in the Calgary zone, which has a population of 1,408,606 and an average life expectancy of 82.9 years. Current description In addition to a 24-hour emergency room and inpatient care, FMC has 57 outpatient clinics on site. This facility provides comprehensive and specialized medical and surgical services to Calgary and Southern Alberta: 33 bed intensive care unit and 24 bed cardiac intensive care unit Level 1 Trauma centre for Southern Alberta 8 bed burn unit 28 operating theatres - including a specially designated trauma operating room High risk maternity and neonatal intensive care unit PARTY Program (Prevent Alcohol & Risk Related Trauma in Youth Program for Grade 9 secondary school students) PADIS (poison & drug information) Southern Alberta Renal Program Intraoperative MR - magnetic resonance system (first of its kind in the world, located in the Seaman's Family MR Research Centre) Stephenson Cardiac MR Centre - the leading cardiac magnetic resonance facility in Canada, as measured by number of peer-reviewed articles published, and part of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta Multiple transplantation such as kidney, pancreas, corneal and tissue transplants HOPE Program (Human Organ Procurement and Exchange) University of Calgary Medical Clinic (UCMC) clinics The Colon Cancer Screening Centre - providing screening colonoscopies to hundreds of patients a month Chronology of hospital projects 1958 Provincial and territorial hospital insurance plans. The Prime Minister of Canada, John Diefenbaker, declares federal grants are available to provincial hospital-care projects, 50 cents on the dollar financing, from Ottawa. 1965 Main building completed, Foothills Hospital. First school of nursing class begins study. 1966 February, main Hospital Phase II complete. April,