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Hydrocephalus Clinic   at
Foothills Medical Centre
Specialty: Neurosurgery
Connect Care Department: CGY FMC HYDROCEPHALUS CL
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 6 months
Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Assesses and provides treatment options to people who are referred to see a neurosurgeon, for accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the brain.Services are offered to people who have been referred, by their doctor, to see a neurosurgeon. The neurosurgery team complete an assessment and decide if treatment is needed.

Follow up is also provided to patients, once their treatment is complete.
Assesses and provides treatment options to people who are referred to see a neurosurgeon, for accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the brain.Services are offered to people who have been referred, by their doctor, to see a neurosurgeon. The neurosurgery team complete an assessment and decide if treatment is needed.

Follow up is also provided to patients, once their treatment is complete.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Our primary goal for the Adult Hydrocephalus clinic is to evaluate patients with hydrocephalus (enlarged ventricles), typically but not always with one or more of the primary symptoms which include:
-Gait & balance issues
-Bladder/bowel issues
-Cognitive decline"

Patient must have an MRI or CT of the Brain within 24 months.
Our primary goal for the Adult Hydrocephalus clinic is to evaluate patients with hydrocephalus (enlarged ventricles), typically but not always with one or more of the primary symptoms which include:
-Gait & balance issues
-Bladder/bowel issues
-Cognitive decline"

Patient must have an MRI or CT of the Brain within 24 months.
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
Complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile
Urgent Referrals: Please mark referral as urgent and fax to number listed.
Please ensure up to date patient demographics and complete medical history are included with referral. Imaging required based on reason for referral.
Complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile
Urgent Referrals: Please mark referral as urgent and fax to number listed.
Please ensure up to date patient demographics and complete medical history are included with referral. Imaging required based on reason for referral.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Neurosurgery, enter CGY FMC HYDROCEPHALUS CL in the “To Department” section and complete order.
Urgent Referrals: Please mark referral as urgent and fax to number listed.
Please ensure up to date patient demographics and complete medical history are included with referral. Imaging required based on reason for referral.
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Neurosurgery, enter CGY FMC HYDROCEPHALUS CL in the “To Department” section and complete order.
Urgent Referrals: Please mark referral as urgent and fax to number listed.
Please ensure up to date patient demographics and complete medical history are included with referral. Imaging required based on reason for referral.
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
403-944-1626
FAX
403-283-2270
REFERRAL FAX
403-668-2170
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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Hydrocephalus
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
CT or MRI of Brain
 
Within 24 months
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Email
Print
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
If the patient needs to cancel or reschedule their appointment we ask for 24 hours notice. If the patient fails to give advanced notice(no-show):
  • New referral appointment will not be rescheduled without a re-referral
  • Two (2) or more no-shows and/or rescheduled appointments may result in dismissal from our practice
If the patient needs to cancel or reschedule their appointment we ask for 24 hours notice. If the patient fails to give advanced notice(no-show):
  • New referral appointment will not be rescheduled without a re-referral
  • Two (2) or more no-shows and/or rescheduled appointments may result in dismissal from our practice
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
Tuesday: 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
Wednesday: 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
Thursday: 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
Friday: 7:00 am - 3:00 pm
Description:
Closed on weekends and statutory holidays.
   
 
ADDRESS
12th floor, Main Building
1403 29 Street NW
Calgary Alberta
T2N 2T9
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
Patients should be instructed to arrive for their appointment 30 minutes prior for parking and check-in. They need to bring:
  1. Alberta Health Care Card
  2. Photo ID
  3. Family member or close friend
  4. List of current medications, including any homeopathic supplements
  5. Reading glasses, or any other visual aids, if applicable
  6. Walking aids, for example a cane or a walker, if applicable
  7. Hearing aids, if applicable
Patients should be instructed to arrive for their appointment 30 minutes prior for parking and check-in. They need to bring:
  1. Alberta Health Care Card
  2. Photo ID
  3. Family member or close friend
  4. List of current medications, including any homeopathic supplements
  5. Reading glasses, or any other visual aids, if applicable
  6. Walking aids, for example a cane or a walker, if applicable
  7. Hearing aids, if applicable
 
DIRECTIONS
Foothills Medical Centre (1403-29th Street NW), Calgary. Main Building, 12th Floor.
Please take the main elevator to the 11th floor, and then take the small elevator to the 12th floor.
 
Foothills Medical Centre (1403-29th Street NW), Calgary. Main Building, 12th Floor.
Please take the main elevator to the 11th floor, and then take the small elevator to the 12th floor.
 
 
PHONE
403-944-1626
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Please use central lot, located off of 29th Street NW>
Please use central lot, located off of 29th Street NW>
 
EMAIL
WEBSITE
https://www.ucalgary.ca/dcns/
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
PARKING MAP
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

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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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