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Posturography Service   at
Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
Specialty: Rehabilitation
Connect Care Department: EDM GRH BALANCE SERVICE
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 3 months
Alberta Health Services - Edmonton Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Computerized Dynamic Posturography (CDP) is a special test to check balance and how well you stand.This test uses CDP to look for balance problems and issues with the inner ear that can affect how well you stand. You stand on a platform with sensors, while the surface and what you look at are changed, making it harder to stay balanced. The test checks how you respond to these changes, and gives important details about your balance.
Computerized Dynamic Posturography (CDP) is a special test to check balance and how well you stand.This test uses CDP to look for balance problems and issues with the inner ear that can affect how well you stand. You stand on a platform with sensors, while the surface and what you look at are changed, making it harder to stay balanced. The test checks how you respond to these changes, and gives important details about your balance.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Adults with vestibular and neurologic disorders who require this test to supplement prior clinical examination and tests.  Patients must be able to cooperate with test procedures, be able to stand erect and unsupported for at least 10 minutes and not lose balance when standing on a fixed surface with eyes open.   
NOTE:  Maximum weight limit of 400 pounds for current posturography equipment.
Adults with vestibular and neurologic disorders who require this test to supplement prior clinical examination and tests.  Patients must be able to cooperate with test procedures, be able to stand erect and unsupported for at least 10 minutes and not lose balance when standing on a fixed surface with eyes open.   
NOTE:  Maximum weight limit of 400 pounds for current posturography equipment.
Referral instructions for primary care, community care, private
providers etc. who do not send referrals via Connect Care. 
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR NON-CONNECT CARE USERS
Physician Referral is required via neuro-otologist, otolaryngologist, neurologist, or GRH physiatrist.
Complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
Physician Referral is required via neuro-otologist, otolaryngologist, neurologist, or GRH physiatrist.
Complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Rehabilitation, type EDM GRH BALANCE SERVICE in the “To Department” section and complete order. 
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Rehabilitation, type EDM GRH BALANCE SERVICE in the “To Department” section and complete order. 
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
The results provide medical specialists with information on the nature of the balance disorder, and along with other testing, can determine the most appropriate management.
The results provide medical specialists with information on the nature of the balance disorder, and along with other testing, can determine the most appropriate management.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Referral receipt to referring source within 7 days.
  • Acceptance via appointment details or wait list status letter to referring source and patient within 14 days.
  • Appointment outcome to referral source within 30 days.
 
PHONE
780-735-8231
FAX
780-735-7946
REFERRAL PHONE
780-735-8231
REFERRAL FAX
780-735-7946
CLICK + TO VIEW REFERRAL GUIDELINES
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Routine Reason for Referral
Access Targets convey the clinically appropriate timeframe patients should be seen within, by reason for referral and priority level.
Access Target
Required Information/Investigations
Investigation Timing
Additional Details
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Balance assessment
Medication list, past medical history, consultations and investigations done by other specialists, i.e. previous hearing test results, posturography, rotary chair test results, imaging, blood pressure etc
 
Within 6 months
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
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MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
If you are unable to attend a scheduled appointment, please contact the clinic a minimum of 48 hours in advance to reschedule.  Patients who miss multiple appointments without notifying the clinic may require a new referral.
If you are unable to attend a scheduled appointment, please contact the clinic a minimum of 48 hours in advance to reschedule.  Patients who miss multiple appointments without notifying the clinic may require a new referral.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
Friday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
Description:
Closed during STAT holidays.
   
 
ADDRESS
Syncrude Centre for Motion and Balance, Room 2412 GlenWest
10230 111 Avenue NW
Edmonton Alberta
T5G 0B7
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
 
DIRECTIONS
Please report to the Glenrose Hospital Main Entrance, just off of 111 Avenue and check in with the Front Desk/Admitting and proceed to 2nd Floor, Syncrude Centre (Room 2412-GlenWest).
Please report to the Glenrose Hospital Main Entrance, just off of 111 Avenue and check in with the Front Desk/Admitting and proceed to 2nd Floor, Syncrude Centre (Room 2412-GlenWest).
 
PHONE
780-735-8231
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Disabled and public parking is available in the underground parkade and at designated surface stalls.  Pay by plate parking is available.
Disabled and public parking is available in the underground parkade and at designated surface stalls.  Pay by plate parking is available.
 
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VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
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WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

Accessible and public parking are available on designated surface and underground parking stalls.

Pay by plate parking is available.


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The locations listed have 3 background colors:
  • Green means the healthcare service@location has referral information attached to it.
  • Brown means the healthcare service@location never had referral information attached to it, or it has unpublished referral information.
  • Red means
    • IA changed the healthcare service@location's status to something other than Current
    • It was deleted if it is an ARD healthcare service@location.
Green  and Brown are always at the top of the list. These are the Healthcare Service@Locations with the status of Current.
The Red list at the bottom consists of non-current Healthcare Service@locations that once had Published referral information in the ARD.
If the referral information was never published in ARD the Healthcare Service@location will not show in the Red list.

The secondary purpose of the All Locations list is to allow ARD Administrators to recover (copy) referral information from the non-current Healthcare Service@Locations to ones that are current.

Common Scenario:
A Healthcare Service moves from one location to another. In this case the IA Healthcare Service@Location record will be made defunct (non-current) and a new Healthcare Service@Location record will be created with a current status. In this scenario the captured referral guidelines in ARD can become "orphaned" as they are not attached to any current IA healthcare service.

Categories of non-current or orphaned referral guidelines: INDIVIDUAL and COMMON.
The REFERRAL GUIDELINES section of the profile has the prefix INDIVIDUAL or COMMON to help you choose the method below when transferring referral guidelines from a non-current Healthcare Service@Location to a current healthcare service@location.

Individual referral process
  1. Click on a non-current (Red) Healthcare Service@Location at the bottom of the All Locations list.
  2. The non-current referral info is displayed with the link Copy this Referral Process to another Healthcare Service@Location link on the upper right hand corner. Click on the copy link.
  3. Choose a current location (Green or Brown) from the All Locations list. This will be the Healthcare Service@Location you are pasting the referral info into.
  4. The system will display the Edit Referral Info screen populated with the referral info from the non-current Healthcare Service@Location you viewed in the first step.
  5. Click Save and the referral info is transferred from the non-current Healthcare Service@Location to the current one.
  6. Repeat these steps for each Healthcare Service@Location that needs attention.

Common referral process - 2 sub cases.
Case 1: At least 1 current Healthcare Service@Location with common referral info is with current status for this healthcare service; One or more Healthcare Healthcare Service@Locations where replaced by new one.
  1. Click on any current Healthcare Service@Location whether it has referral info (Green) or not (Brown).
  2. The healthcare service location opens in the Edit Referral Info screen populated with the current common referral info.
  3. Save it. 
  4. All locations will be updated with the common referral information, including all the locations that don't have referral info yet (Brown). The non-current referrals (Red) will also be updated.
Case 2:  All Healthcare Healthcare Service@Locations for a healthcare service are set to a non-current status and replaced by new ones. In this case there is no current additional referral info to copy from, so the only alternative is to pick up the non-current common referral process (Red). Follow the steps described in the section Individual Referral Process above to copy/paste the non-current common referral info to the current healthcare service locations.
Generally we want to replicate current common referral info to new or replaced healthcare service locations. We only resort to copying non-current common referral info if there is no other option.

Remember: Some fields can be location specific with the common referral process:
Parking Instructions, Directions, Parking Map, Wait Time, Referral Phone or Referral Fax.
To update these items you have to edit each Healthcare Service@Location separately.

ADDITONAL NOTES:
  • The info icon after the All Locations drop down will be visible to ARD Administrators.
  • The system doesn't allow you to copy referral information from one non-current Healthcare Service@Location to another.

 

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