Alberta’s healthcare leaders don’t hire just anyone. They hire ABES graduates. For over 30 years, ABES has trained the professionals that Alberta’s top health care employers choose for their teams.
THE ABES APPROACH
See the classroom, the practicum and the people who help you get to work.
ABES instructors bring years of hands-on experience from the field. Partners like Alberta Health Services, Alberta Precision Laboratories and CareWest contribute to the curriculum, and their policies and procedures are part of course training, so each program keeps up with the current standards of its field.
Every ABES program includes a supervised practicum placement. You spend part of your program in a working health care or social services setting, applying what you learned in class.
A kind and caring team, genuinely committed to your success, supports you from the moment you walk in the door to the day you graduate and begin your new career.
OUR PURPOSE
To prepare students for in-demand careers in health care through relevant education, real-world practice, and a commitment to their success.
1991 → TODAY
Six milestones from a Calgary start to today’s health care programs.
Alberta Business & Educational Services (ABES) was incorporated March 28, 1991.
ABES establishes partnership with post secondary schools, NAIT and Lakeland. First Health Care Aide (HCA) program is launched.
Calgary Lab Services (now Alberta Precision Laboratories) partners with ABES to launch the Medical Laboratory Assistant (MLA) program.
ABES narrows focus to health care and social services programs and licensed as a private vocational school under the Private Vocational Training Act.
ABES is purchased by acting director, Julie Nel.
ABES College becomes the only private school in Alberta licensed to offer the Practical Nurse program.
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