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This healthcare service has 6 current healthcare service locations.
Endoscopy / Colonoscopy Services   at
Canmore General Hospital
Specialty: Gastroenterology
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 6 months
Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Provides endoscopy and colonoscopy procedures for gastrointestinal concerns.Offers endoscopy procedures for gastrointestinal concerns, which may include:
  • endoscopy
  • colonoscopy
  • sigmoidoscopy
  • esophageal motility study
  • endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) Foothills Medical Centre and Peter Lougheed Centre only
  • double balloon enteroscopy (DBE) Foothills Medical Centre only
View patient education videos, visit ahs.ca/colonoscopy.
Provides endoscopy and colonoscopy procedures for gastrointestinal concerns.Offers endoscopy procedures for gastrointestinal concerns, which may include:
  • endoscopy
  • colonoscopy
  • sigmoidoscopy
  • esophageal motility study
  • endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) Foothills Medical Centre and Peter Lougheed Centre only
  • double balloon enteroscopy (DBE) Foothills Medical Centre only
View patient education videos, visit ahs.ca/colonoscopy.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Patients must be referred by a family physician or walk-in clinic.
Patients under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
Patients must be referred by a family physician or walk-in clinic.
Patients under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
ROUTINE REFERRAL PROCESS
Referrals should be faxed to 403.678.7196. Our office will notify patients via letter mail when their appointment has been booked.
Referrals should include a referral letter, recent relevant investigations and the completed patient questionnaire.
Referrals should be faxed to 403.678.7196. Our office will notify patients via letter mail when their appointment has been booked.
Referrals should include a referral letter, recent relevant investigations and the completed patient questionnaire.
URGENT REFERRAL PROCESS
Referral should be faxed to the office at 403.678.7196. Referring physicians may also call the office Mon-Thur from 8 am - 3 pm to speak directly with Dr. Pagenkopf.
Referral should be faxed to the office at 403.678.7196. Referring physicians may also call the office Mon-Thur from 8 am - 3 pm to speak directly with Dr. Pagenkopf.
EMERGENCY REFERRAL PROCESS
This service does not have an emergency referral process. Direct patients to the nearest Emergency Department if they are experiencing a serious illness or injury. Patients with potentially life threatening conditions should immediately phone 9-1-1.
This service does not have an emergency referral process. Direct patients to the nearest Emergency Department if they are experiencing a serious illness or injury. Patients with potentially life threatening conditions should immediately phone 9-1-1.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
NOTE: Please be aware that esophageal motility study and bronchoscopy are not offered in Canmore.
Emergency procedures are available.
NOTE: Please be aware that esophageal motility study and bronchoscopy are not offered in Canmore.
Emergency procedures are available.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Referral receipt to referring source within 10 days.
  • Wait list status update every 30 days.
  • Appointment outcome to referral source within 10 days.
 
PHONE
403-679-8608
FAX
587-287-6500
REFERRAL PHONE
403-678-7198
REFERRAL FAX
403-678-7196
REFERRAL FORM
All referrals must include a completed patient questionnaire, available in this link
All referrals must include a completed patient questionnaire, available in this link
REFERRAL ADVICE
CLICK + TO VIEW REFERRAL GUIDELINES
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
Abdominal pain - cause unknown
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Anal fissure
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Anal fistulectomy
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Anemia
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Barrett's esophagus
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Biliary calculus
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Colonoscopy
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Referral letter outlining reason for referral
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Previous colonoscopy report and pathology, if not completed by Dr. Pagenkopf
 
Last 10 years

Dyspepsia
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Dysphagia
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Endoscopy
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Referral letter outlining reason for referral
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Previous endoscopy operative report and pathology results.
 
Last 10 years

Epigastric pain
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Hemorrhoids
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Hernia
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Hiatal hernia
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Lipoma
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Pilonidal cyst
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Proctoscopy
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Referral letter outlining reason for referral
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Previous colonoscopy report and pathology, if not completed by Dr. Pagenkopf
 
If applicable

Rectal bleeding
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Sigmoidoscopy
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

Referral letter outlining reason for referral
 
Within 1 month

Patient Questionnaire (available at drcort.wordpress.com)
 
Within 1 month

If applicable, provide previous colonoscopy report and pathology, if not completed by Dr. Pagenkopf
 
Within 1 month
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
If unable to make it to appointment, please email the office at confirmdrcort@gmail.com to reschedule. 14 days notice is required to change or cancel procedures, 48 hours notice required for office appointments.  Missed appointments will be re-booked after fee is paid, without re-referral process.
If unable to make it to appointment, please email the office at confirmdrcort@gmail.com to reschedule. 14 days notice is required to change or cancel procedures, 48 hours notice required for office appointments.  Missed appointments will be re-booked after fee is paid, without re-referral process.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Thursday: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Friday: 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Description:
Closed Saturday, Sunday and STAT holidays.
   
 
ADDRESS
1100 Hospital Place
Canmore Alberta
T1W 1N2
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
Patients must check in at the front desk, then proceed to Surgical Daycare, Room 347.
Canmore General Hospital is Located on Hospital Drive near just off of Bow Valley Trail.

Canmore General Hospital site information
Patients must check in at the front desk, then proceed to Surgical Daycare, Room 347.
Canmore General Hospital is Located on Hospital Drive near just off of Bow Valley Trail.

Canmore General Hospital site information
 
PHONE
403-679-8608
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
PARKING MAP
There is currently no parking map available for this site.
There is currently no parking map available for this site.
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

This facility is wheelchair accessible and has an elevator on site.


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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