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Mood Disorders Program - Addiction & Mental Health   at
Foothills Medical Centre
Specialty: Addiction and Mental Health
Connect Care Department: CGY FMC AMH MOOD PROGRAM
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 3 months
Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
The Mood Disorders Program is a subspecialty psychiatry service based at the Foothills Medical Centre.Adults (18+ of age) with a moderate to severe presentation of one of the following:
  • recurrent major depressive disorder
  • bipolar disorder (I or II)
  • first episode depression with a family history of bipolar disorder OR
  • young adult (15 to 25 years of age) with first admission to hospital for any mood disorder
  • timely and comprehensive psychiatric assessment
  • treatment for primary recurrent unipolar and bipolar mood disorder when indicated
  • education
  • research
The Mood Disorders Program is a subspecialty psychiatry service based at the Foothills Medical Centre.Adults (18+ of age) with a moderate to severe presentation of one of the following:
  • recurrent major depressive disorder
  • bipolar disorder (I or II)
  • first episode depression with a family history of bipolar disorder OR
  • young adult (15 to 25 years of age) with first admission to hospital for any mood disorder
  • timely and comprehensive psychiatric assessment
  • treatment for primary recurrent unipolar and bipolar mood disorder when indicated
  • education
  • research
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Patients between the ages of 15-64 years thought to be suffering from:
  • bipolar disorder (I or II)
  • recurrent major depressive disorder, treatment refractory depression
  • first episode depression with a family history of bipolar disorder
  • not currently before the courts or requiring a community treatment order
  • active substance use will be considered on a case by case basis
Patients between the ages of 15-64 years thought to be suffering from:
  • bipolar disorder (I or II)
  • recurrent major depressive disorder, treatment refractory depression
  • first episode depression with a family history of bipolar disorder
  • not currently before the courts or requiring a community treatment order
  • active substance use will be considered on a case by case basis
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
Referrals must be directed via Access Mental Health using the referral phone number in this profile.  Or complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
All referrals must include patient psychiatric history (with records as applicable), family mental health history, current and past medications as well as outlining the question or reason for referral.
Referrals must be directed via Access Mental Health using the referral phone number in this profile.  Or complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
All referrals must include patient psychiatric history (with records as applicable), family mental health history, current and past medications as well as outlining the question or reason for referral.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Addiction and Mental Health, type CGY FMC AMH MOOD PROGRAM in the “To Department” section and complete order. 
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Addiction and Mental Health, type CGY FMC AMH MOOD PROGRAM in the “To Department” section and complete order. 
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 30 days.
  • Appointment outcome to referral source within 30 days.
 
PHONE
403-944-1491
FAX
403-270-2093
REFERRAL PHONE
403-943-1500
REFERRAL FAX
403-943-9044
REFERRAL FORM
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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Mood disorder
Family history of mental disorder
 
Within 1 month
Current and previously trialed medications
 
Within 1 month
Reason or Questions for Referral
 
Within 1 month
Personal Psychiatric History with records as applicable
 
Within 1 month
A physician's referral is required
 
Within 1 month
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Email
Print
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
Patients must provide 2 business days' notice of cancellation of appointment by contacting the program directly (403-9441491). Failure to attend 2 scheduled appointments results in referral closure.
Patients must provide 2 business days' notice of cancellation of appointment by contacting the program directly (403-9441491). Failure to attend 2 scheduled appointments results in referral closure.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Friday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Description:
Closed weekends and holidays
   
 
ADDRESS
Unit 24, Foothills Hospital
1403 29 Street NW
Calgary Alberta
T2N 2T9
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
  • Bring your Alberta health care card and a piece of government issued photo ID.
  • Check in at reception 15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time.
  • You may bring a family member or significant other during your consultation.
  • Please make sure to have someone with you if you are unable to communicate in English.
  • Bring your Alberta health care card and a piece of government issued photo ID.
  • Check in at reception 15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time.
  • You may bring a family member or significant other during your consultation.
  • Please make sure to have someone with you if you are unable to communicate in English.
 
DIRECTIONS
The Mood Disorders Program is located on the 2nd floor of the Special Services Building at the Foothills Medical Centre.

Fooothills Medical Centre is located at the intersection of 16 Avenue NW and 29 Street NW.

Transit:
Public transportation is available to this facility.
The Mood Disorders Program is located on the 2nd floor of the Special Services Building at the Foothills Medical Centre.

Fooothills Medical Centre is located at the intersection of 16 Avenue NW and 29 Street NW.

Transit:
Public transportation is available to this facility.
 
PHONE
403-944-1491
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Parking payment due in advance.Any pay station can be used to pay for any lot.
Pay stations are located in all parking areas and most building entrances.
Parking pay stations accept coin and all major credit cards. Accessible parking is available in all public parking lots and secondary surface lots.
Parking rates apply 24 hours per day, and are in effect for all public parkers including those with provincially issued placards for persons with disabilities.
Parking payment due in advance.Any pay station can be used to pay for any lot.
Pay stations are located in all parking areas and most building entrances.
Parking pay stations accept coin and all major credit cards. Accessible parking is available in all public parking lots and secondary surface lots.
Parking rates apply 24 hours per day, and are in effect for all public parkers including those with provincially issued placards for persons with disabilities.
 
EMAIL
WEBSITE
https://www.ahs.ca
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
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WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

The primary purpose of the All Locations list is to let the user easily access any location of a healthcare service without going back to the main search screen.

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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