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Cardiology-Vita Diagnostics   at
Southland Tower
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 3 months
NON AHS
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Cardiac and Pulmonary Diagnostic testing with the option of consultation.

Cardiology and pulmonary diagnostic imaging lab located in South Calgary with option for both urgent and non-urgent cardiology and pulmonary consultations. 

Please note that all our services are covered under Alberta Health Services.

Cardiac and Pulmonary Diagnostic testing with the option of consultation.

Cardiology and pulmonary diagnostic imaging lab located in South Calgary with option for both urgent and non-urgent cardiology and pulmonary consultations. 

Please note that all our services are covered under Alberta Health Services.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
For Cardiac, patients must be 16 years or older for testing, 18 years or older for consultations.
For Cardiac, patients must be 16 years or older for testing, 18 years or older for consultations.
ROUTINE REFERRAL PROCESS
Referral are received by fax and reviewed and triaged by a referral coordinator. For consultations the follow applies:

Urgent - within 2 weeks

Semi-Urgent - 1-2months

Routine - 3-6 months

If you believe your patients appointment is more urgent than it was triaged, more information as to why it should be expedited is required. Patients will be contacted to book appointments, in accordance with their triage status. All appointment details are faxed back to the referring physician once booking completed.
Referral are received by fax and reviewed and triaged by a referral coordinator. For consultations the follow applies:

Urgent - within 2 weeks

Semi-Urgent - 1-2months

Routine - 3-6 months

If you believe your patients appointment is more urgent than it was triaged, more information as to why it should be expedited is required. Patients will be contacted to book appointments, in accordance with their triage status. All appointment details are faxed back to the referring physician once booking completed.
URGENT REFERRAL PROCESS
Urgent Echo, ETT, ECG, Holter monitor and Cardiology Consult referrals are accepted. 

Clearly indicate URGENT. Fax to (587) 393-8773. 
Patient is contacted and scheduled within a 1-2 week time frame.

Pulmonary (RESPMD) is now located on the 8th floor in the Southland Tower - we are no longer accepting pulmonary referrals. Please fax all PFT/ABG and Pulmonary consult referrals to - 1-855-933-2316. Thank you.
Urgent Echo, ETT, ECG, Holter monitor and Cardiology Consult referrals are accepted. 

Clearly indicate URGENT. Fax to (587) 393-8773. 
Patient is contacted and scheduled within a 1-2 week time frame.

Pulmonary (RESPMD) is now located on the 8th floor in the Southland Tower - we are no longer accepting pulmonary referrals. Please fax all PFT/ABG and Pulmonary consult referrals to - 1-855-933-2316. Thank you.
EMERGENCY REFERRAL PROCESS
Emergency referrals are triaged and will typically be seen within 2 weeks. Please provide detailed clinical history and previous reports if available. Urgent echos, ECG's, can be performed at Vita within 1-4 days if the patient has not had prior testing.
Emergency referrals are triaged and will typically be seen within 2 weeks. Please provide detailed clinical history and previous reports if available. Urgent echos, ECG's, can be performed at Vita within 1-4 days if the patient has not had prior testing.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
We do our absolute best to make the experience of visiting our clinic as easy and comfortable as possible. If you have any questions about your upcoming visit that aren’t answered by the information on our site please don’t hesitate to call 587.393.8482 or email us at info@vitadiagnostics.ca.
We do our absolute best to make the experience of visiting our clinic as easy and comfortable as possible. If you have any questions about your upcoming visit that aren’t answered by the information on our site please don’t hesitate to call 587.393.8482 or email us at info@vitadiagnostics.ca.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Referral receipt to referring source within 2 days.
  • Wait list status update every 14 days.
  • Appointment outcome to referral source within 10 days.
 
PHONE
587-393-8482
FAX
587-393-8773
REFERRAL PHONE
587-393-8482
REFERRAL FAX
587-393-8773
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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Cardiovascular stress test using treadmill
Arrhythmia Evaluation
 
Within 1 month
Exercise tolerance
 
Within 1 month
Ischemic Evaluation
 
Within 1 month
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Consultation
Chest pain
 
Within 12 months
Consultation wait times are as follows:

Urgent - within 2 weeks

Semi-Urgent - 1-2 months

Routine - 3-6 months
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Echocardiogram
Cardiac Source of Embulus
 
Within 1 month
Cardiac Structure & Function
 
Within 1 month
Pericardial Abnormality
 
Within 1 month
Valvular Heart Abnormality
 
Within 1 month
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Electrocardiogram
Arrhythmia
 
1-3 DAYS
Chest Pain
 
1-3 DAYS
Ischemic Heart Disease
 
1-3 DAYS
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Holter monitor
Atrial fibrillation and flutter
 
Within 2 months
Suspected Arrhythmia
 
Within 2 months
Syncope
 
Within 2 months
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Emergent Reason for Referral
Additional Details
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Echocardiography
Some same day echos available. Routine echos are within 1 week.
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
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MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
If patient no shows for their appointment the referral will be closed and patient will need to be re-referred. We have a 15 minute late policy for all patients. If you are more than 15 minutes late you will be asked to rebook your appointment. This is due to the amount of time it requires to do the testing and to keep the clinic day flowing smoothly. We appreciate your patience and understanding around this. We recommend arriving at least 10 minutes early for your appointment.
If patient no shows for their appointment the referral will be closed and patient will need to be re-referred. We have a 15 minute late policy for all patients. If you are more than 15 minutes late you will be asked to rebook your appointment. This is due to the amount of time it requires to do the testing and to keep the clinic day flowing smoothly. We appreciate your patience and understanding around this. We recommend arriving at least 10 minutes early for your appointment.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 07:00 am - 05:00 pm
Tuesday: 07:00 am - 05:00 pm
Wednesday: 07:00 am - 05:00 pm
Thursday: 07:00 am - 05:00 pm
Friday: 07:00 am - 05:00 pm
   
 
ADDRESS
Suite 1410 - 10655 Southport Road SW
Calgary Alberta
T2W 4Y1
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
 
DIRECTIONS
Vita Diagnostics is located on the 14th floor of Southland Tower on the West side of Macleod Trail at 106 Avenue.
Vita Diagnostics is located on the 14th floor of Southland Tower on the West side of Macleod Trail at 106 Avenue.
 
PHONE
587-393-8482
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
PARKING:
There is free 2 hour parking as well as handicap accessible stalls
located to the west and southwest of the building.
TRANSIT DIRECTIONS:
Our office is one block north of the Anderson LRT station.
PARKING:
There is free 2 hour parking as well as handicap accessible stalls
located to the west and southwest of the building.
TRANSIT DIRECTIONS:
Our office is one block north of the Anderson LRT station.
 
EMAIL
info@vitadiagnostics.ca
WEBSITE
https://www.vitadiagnostics.ca
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
PARKING MAP
Free 2 hour parking to the west and south side of the Southland Tower Building Entrance.
Free 2 hour parking to the west and south side of the Southland Tower Building Entrance.
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY

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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