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Forensic Psychiatry   at
Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre
Specialty: Addiction and Mental Health
Connect Care Department: CGY SAFPC AMH LEGAL
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 1 month
Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Inpatient comprehensive, multidisciplinary court ordered assessments for the justice system, inpatient and outpatient recovery and rehabilitation services for those patients designated under the Criminal Code Review Board.The Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre (SAFPC) provides the following service:
  • court ordered psychiatric assessments
  • assessments range from Pre-trial, Pre-sentence, Long term offender (LTO), Dangerous offender (DO), and Not Criminally Responsible (NCR)
  • treatment and rehabilitation to individuals who have been found NCR due to mental disorder and under the legislation of the Criminal Code Review Board+
  • temporary treatment and stabilization for individuals who have decompensated while in custody
  • emergency admissions: patient who are certified, in hospital, and who are charged with a detainable offense
Inpatient comprehensive, multidisciplinary court ordered assessments for the justice system, inpatient and outpatient recovery and rehabilitation services for those patients designated under the Criminal Code Review Board.The Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre (SAFPC) provides the following service:
  • court ordered psychiatric assessments
  • assessments range from Pre-trial, Pre-sentence, Long term offender (LTO), Dangerous offender (DO), and Not Criminally Responsible (NCR)
  • treatment and rehabilitation to individuals who have been found NCR due to mental disorder and under the legislation of the Criminal Code Review Board+
  • temporary treatment and stabilization for individuals who have decompensated while in custody
  • emergency admissions: patient who are certified, in hospital, and who are charged with a detainable offense
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Court ordered for a Pre-trial, Pre-sentence, Long term offender, Dangerous Offender or Not Criminally Responsible Due to Mental Disorder (NCR-MD) assessments.
Court ordered for a Pre-trial, Pre-sentence, Long term offender, Dangerous Offender or Not Criminally Responsible Due to Mental Disorder (NCR-MD) assessments.
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
SAFPC receives mandated court ordered assessment requests from the Provincial courts in Calgary, Red Deer, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge.
SAFPC receives mandated court ordered assessment requests from the Provincial courts in Calgary, Red Deer, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Addiction and Mental Health, type CGY SAFPC AMH LEGAL in the “To Department” section and complete order.
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Addiction and Mental Health, type CGY SAFPC AMH LEGAL in the “To Department” section and complete order.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
The clinic provides a day assessment. The patient isn't admitted to the site as an inpatient.
Access target to service is dependent on wait-list and the acuity of the individual.
The clinic provides a day assessment. The patient isn't admitted to the site as an inpatient.
Access target to service is dependent on wait-list and the acuity of the individual.
 
PHONE
403-944-6800
FAX
403-944-6852
REFERRAL PHONE
403-944-6823
REFERRAL FAX
403-944-6854
REFERRAL FORM
Please note that warrants of remand are required for all admissions to SAFPC and referrals are not applicable.
Please note that warrants of remand are required for all admissions to SAFPC and referrals are not applicable.
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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
Criminal behavior
Psychiatric evaluation of patient for criminal responsibility with report
 
Within 1 month
For referrals relating to in-custody adults 18 years or older, who are court ordered to have an assessment, please contact 403-944-6823.

Psychiatric rehabilitation
Rehabilitation psychiatry service
 
Greater than 12 months
For referrals to the Not Criminally Responsible (NCR) Unit, please contact 403-944-6832.
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
In custody. Mandated to attend via the courts.
In custody. Mandated to attend via the courts.
 
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
   
 
ADDRESS
11333 85 Street NW
Calgary Alberta
T3R 1J3
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
 
DIRECTIONS
Sheriff's transport all individuals who are attending to the site for an assessment.
Sheriff's transport all individuals who are attending to the site for an assessment.
 
PHONE
403-944-6800
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Only utilized during COVID. individuals are transferred to SAFPC for the day assessments.
Only utilized during COVID. individuals are transferred to SAFPC for the day assessments.
 
PARKING MAP
There is no parking map available for this site
There is no parking map available for this site
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
N/A

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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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