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Liver Transplant - Southern Alberta Transplant Program   at
Foothills Medical Centre
Specialty: Transplant
Connect Care Department: CGY FMC LIVER TXP
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 6 months
Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Liver Transplant - Southern Alberta Transplant Program provides assessment, work-up, and follow-up for liver transplant patients south of Red Deer.This service provides:
  • work-up for assessment of eligibility for patients with liver failure
  • education for patients with liver failure
  • waitlist work-up for liver transplant surgery
  • monitoring and treatment of patients on the transplant wait list
  • monitoring and treatment of post-transplant patients
Adult patients are followed through the Foothills Medical Centre and pediatric patients are followed at the Alberta Children’s Hospital; patients are followed in collaboration with the Edmonton Liver Transplant Program. Liver transplant surgery is performed in Edmonton.

Additional Information:
Liver Transplant - Southern Alberta Transplant Program provides assessment, work-up, and follow-up for liver transplant patients south of Red Deer.This service provides:
  • work-up for assessment of eligibility for patients with liver failure
  • education for patients with liver failure
  • waitlist work-up for liver transplant surgery
  • monitoring and treatment of patients on the transplant wait list
  • monitoring and treatment of post-transplant patients
Adult patients are followed through the Foothills Medical Centre and pediatric patients are followed at the Alberta Children’s Hospital; patients are followed in collaboration with the Edmonton Liver Transplant Program. Liver transplant surgery is performed in Edmonton.

Additional Information:
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Adults (18 years or older) 

Clients are assessed for:
  • how urgent their need is
  • health and medical history
  • medical test results
Clients should:
  • be able to follow a complex medical treatment plan
  • be emotionally stable
  • have social support
  • have realistic attitudes about their illness and the transplant surgery
Adults (18 years or older) 

Clients are assessed for:
  • how urgent their need is
  • health and medical history
  • medical test results
Clients should:
  • be able to follow a complex medical treatment plan
  • be emotionally stable
  • have social support
  • have realistic attitudes about their illness and the transplant surgery
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
Referrals are only accepted by Hepatologists.
Complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
Referrals are only accepted by Hepatologists.
Complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Transplant, type CGY FMC LIVER TXP in the “To Department” section and complete order. 
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Transplant, type CGY FMC LIVER TXP in the “To Department” section and complete order. 
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
A certified health care interpreter may be provided in person or over the phone.
Clinic is closed statutory holidays and weekends.
A certified health care interpreter may be provided in person or over the phone.
Clinic is closed statutory holidays and weekends.
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.
 
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
Transplant surgery service
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Transplantation of liver
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
If you are unable to attend a scheduled appointment, please contact the clinic a minimum of 48 hours in advance.
If you are unable to attend a scheduled appointment, please contact the clinic a minimum of 48 hours in advance.
 
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
Description:
Closed statutory holidays and weekends.
   
 
ADDRESS
Southern Alberta Transplant Clinic, North Tower, 5th floor
1403 29 Street NW
Calgary Alberta
T2N 2T9
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
Southern Alberta Transplant Clinic is located at the North Tower on the 5th floor.

Foothills Medical Centre is located at the intersection of 16 Avenue NW and 29 Street NW.

Transit:
Public transportation is available to this facility.
Southern Alberta Transplant Clinic is located at the North Tower on the 5th floor.

Foothills Medical Centre is located at the intersection of 16 Avenue NW and 29 Street NW.

Transit:
Public transportation is available to this facility.
 
PHONE
403-944-4280
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Parking payment due in advance. Any pay station can be used to pay for any lot.
Pay stations are located in all parking areas and most building entrances.
Parking pay stations accept coin and all major credit cards. Accessible parking is available in all public parking lots and secondary surface lots.
Parking rates apply 24 hours per day, and are in effect for all public parkers including those with provincially issued placards for persons with disabilities.
Parking payment due in advance. Any pay station can be used to pay for any lot.
Pay stations are located in all parking areas and most building entrances.
Parking pay stations accept coin and all major credit cards. Accessible parking is available in all public parking lots and secondary surface lots.
Parking rates apply 24 hours per day, and are in effect for all public parkers including those with provincially issued placards for persons with disabilities.
 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
PARKING MAP
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

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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