Test Environment
  
X Close Window
This healthcare service has 1 current healthcare service locations.
Pediatric Neuromuscular Clinic   at
Alberta Children's Hospital
Specialty: Pediatric Neurology
Connect Care Department: CGY ACH PED NEUROMUSCULAR CL
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 1 month
Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Care and management of children with neuromuscular or spinocerebellar disease.Provides care and management for children with neuromuscular or spinocerebellar disease, including muscular dystrophy.
Care and management of children with neuromuscular or spinocerebellar disease.Provides care and management for children with neuromuscular or spinocerebellar disease, including muscular dystrophy.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Children 0 to 17 years old.
Children 0 to 17 years old.
ROUTINE REFERRAL PROCESS
Fax completed referral form to number indicated below.  Please indicate the following on the referral:
  • Specify language spoken in the home and whether the parents speak English
  • Clinical question to be addressed
  • Birth history, including where the child was born (hospital name and location)
  • Rehab services requested or currently involved in child's care.
Fax completed referral form to number indicated below.  Please indicate the following on the referral:
  • Specify language spoken in the home and whether the parents speak English
  • Clinical question to be addressed
  • Birth history, including where the child was born (hospital name and location)
  • Rehab services requested or currently involved in child's care.
URGENT REFERRAL PROCESS
Please indicate on referral if "urgent" and faxcompleted referral form to number indicated below. 
The following situations are considered "urgent":
  • Children experiencing acute feeding issues
  • Children and families requiring urgent psychosocial support
  • New diagnosis presenting with functional concerns and no existing therapy support in place.
Please indicate on referral if "urgent" and faxcompleted referral form to number indicated below. 
The following situations are considered "urgent":
  • Children experiencing acute feeding issues
  • Children and families requiring urgent psychosocial support
  • New diagnosis presenting with functional concerns and no existing therapy support in place.
EMERGENCY REFERRAL PROCESS
Please direct patients to the nearest Emergency Department or Urgent Care Facility
Please direct patients to the nearest Emergency Department or Urgent Care Facility
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
Urgent Referrals
Please indicate on referral if "urgent" and faxcompleted referral form to number indicated below. 
The following situations are considered "urgent":
  • Children experiencing acute feeding issues
  • Children and families requiring urgent psychosocial support
  • New diagnosis presenting with functional concerns and no existing therapy support in place.
Therapists will facilitate transition of children and families into community-based rehab services and/or school-based services as appropriate.
Clinic-based therapists liaise with community therapists (e.g. school board therapists, home care, rural therapy agency etc.) regarding relevant issues as identified through assessments and clinic visits.
New patients should receive the Outpatient Clinics Welcome Letter.
Urgent Referrals
Please indicate on referral if "urgent" and faxcompleted referral form to number indicated below. 
The following situations are considered "urgent":
  • Children experiencing acute feeding issues
  • Children and families requiring urgent psychosocial support
  • New diagnosis presenting with functional concerns and no existing therapy support in place.
Therapists will facilitate transition of children and families into community-based rehab services and/or school-based services as appropriate.
Clinic-based therapists liaise with community therapists (e.g. school board therapists, home care, rural therapy agency etc.) regarding relevant issues as identified through assessments and clinic visits.
New patients should receive the Outpatient Clinics Welcome Letter.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Referral receipt to referring source within 7 days.
  • Wait list status update every 14 days.
  • Appointment outcome to referral source within 30 days.
 
PHONE
403-955-5437
FAX
403-592-5104
REFERRAL FORM
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
+-
Neuromuscular disorder
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Developmental screen and/or therapy report
 
Within 1 month
Copy of most recent physician note/assessment
 
Within 1 month
Access to this clinic is through ACH Pediatric Neurology Clinic, see ARD listing for more information. 
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Email
Print
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
Missed appointments are minimized by requiring a re-referral after two missed appointments. (Alberta Children's Hospital Outpatient Principles in Practice, 6.8)
Missed appointments are minimized by requiring a re-referral after two missed appointments. (Alberta Children's Hospital Outpatient Principles in Practice, 6.8)
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
Friday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm
   
 
ADDRESS
Level 1, Neurosciences
28 Oki Drive NW
Calgary Alberta
T3B 6A8
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
Alberta Children's Hospital is located on the corner of 24 Avenue NW and West Campus Drive NW.
Alberta Children's Hospital is located on the corner of 24 Avenue NW and West Campus Drive NW.
 
PHONE
403-955-5437
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Rates apply 24 hours per day, and are in effect for all public parkers, including those with provincially issued placards for persons with disabilities.
Paystations accept Canadian coins, Canadian bills or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, and American Express).
Parking Office and Kiosk accept payment by cash, credit card, debit or cheque.
Rates apply 24 hours per day, and are in effect for all public parkers, including those with provincially issued placards for persons with disabilities.
Paystations accept Canadian coins, Canadian bills or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, and American Express).
Parking Office and Kiosk accept payment by cash, credit card, debit or cheque.
 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
There are no virtual appointments offered for this service.
There are no virtual appointments offered for this service.
 
 
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.

 

About Us
Terms of Use
Privacy Statement
Disclaimer
ARD Partners
Search Tips
Back to top
FAQ
Contact Us
V6.5