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Children's Hospital Intestinal Rehabilitation Program   at
Alberta Children's Hospital
Specialty: Pediatric Gastroenterology
Connect Care Department: CGY ACH GI CHIRP
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 3 months
Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
A multidisciplinary team that provides education and support for children who have intestinal failure.This program provides education and support for children, who are assessed by multidisciplinary team, who have intestinal failure. For example, children who require intravenous nutrition to survive.
A multidisciplinary team that provides education and support for children who have intestinal failure.This program provides education and support for children, who are assessed by multidisciplinary team, who have intestinal failure. For example, children who require intravenous nutrition to survive.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Patients referred to CHIRP should have been on Parenteral nutrition (PN) for >42 days OR anticipated PN for >42 days due to intestinal disease, dysfunction or resection (eg. bowel length <25% of expected).
In Alberta, please indicate if bloodwork or test results are available in NetCare. These results do NOT need to be faxed with the referral but will be accessed online.
Patients referred to CHIRP should have been on Parenteral nutrition (PN) for >42 days OR anticipated PN for >42 days due to intestinal disease, dysfunction or resection (eg. bowel length <25% of expected).
In Alberta, please indicate if bloodwork or test results are available in NetCare. These results do NOT need to be faxed with the referral but will be accessed online.
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: For urgent referrals, please call the ACH Main Switchboard 403-955-7211 and ask to speak to the pediatric gastroenterologist (GI) physician on call.
Complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile
Urgent Referrals: For urgent referrals, please call the ACH Main Switchboard 403-955-7211 and ask to speak to the pediatric gastroenterologist (GI) physician on call.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Pediatric Gastroenterology, enter CGY ACH GI CHIRP in the “To Department” section and complete order.
Urgent Referrals: For urgent referrals, please call the ACH Main Switchboard 403-955-7211 and ask to speak to the pediatric gastroenterologist (GI) physician on call.
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Pediatric Gastroenterology, enter CGY ACH GI CHIRP in the “To Department” section and complete order.
Urgent Referrals: For urgent referrals, please call the ACH Main Switchboard 403-955-7211 and ask to speak to the pediatric gastroenterologist (GI) physician on call.
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
403-955-3248
FAX
403-592-5109
REFERRAL FAX
403-592-5109
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
Failure to thrive
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Growth chart/calculated BMI
 
Current

Parenteral nutrition. When PN was started/discontinued. Previous PN orders not required.
 
Within 1 month
Patient should be under the care of a pediatrician.

Nutritional deficiency
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Patient should be under the care of a pediatrician.
Urgent 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
Parenteral nutrition
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Biopsy
 
Any and all results

Dietary history - specify forms (breast milk or formula names), concentrations, route, regimen (volume, rate, frequency), reasons for changes
 
Within 3 months

Growth chart/BMI
 
Any

History of central line access - previous PICC or CVC insertions (dates, locations, line size/type, reasons for removal), current central line access (location, date, place size and type)
 
Any

Immunization history. Additional details if out of province please.
 
Any

Operative reports. If out of province, please provide additional details.
 
Any

Past medical history
 
Any

Previous feeding assessments (SLP, OT, ENT)
 
Any

Vascular imaging - ultrasound Doppler, fluoroscopy, CT or MRI imaging of vessels
 
Any

AST,ALT, GGT
 
Within 1 month

BIL Total/Direct
 
Within 1 month

Bowel imaging. Example: AXRs, fluoroscopy, abdominal ultrasound
 
Within 3 months

C-reactive protein
 
Within 1 month

CBC
 
Within 1 month

Ca, Phos, Triglycerides
 
Within 1 month

Electrolytes, BUN, Creat
 
Within 1 month

Folate
 
Within 6 months

Glucose level
 
Within 1 month

INR/PTT
 
Within 1 month

Iodine, selenium, zinc, copper, ceruloplasmin
 
If available

Iron studies
 
If available

Lipase
 
Within 1 month

Magnesium
 
Within 1 month

Sweat chloride
 
If available

Total protein/albumin
 
Within 1 month

Vitamin A,D,E levels
 
Within 3 months if available

Vitamin B12, Methylmalonic acid levels
 
Within 3 months

Parenteral nutrition. Include all previous PN orders
 
Within 3 months
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
A new referral may be required after two missed appointments.
A new referral may be required after two missed appointments.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 8:15 am - 2:30 pm
Tuesday: 8:15 am - 2:30 pm
Wednesday: 8:15 am - 2:30 pm
Thursday: 8:15 am - 2:30 pm
Friday:
   
 
ADDRESS
3rd Floor GI Clinic Reception
28 Oki Drive NW
Calgary Alberta
T3B 6A8
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
 
DIRECTIONS
Located on the corner of 24 Avenue NW and West Campus Drive NW.
Located on the corner of 24 Avenue NW and West Campus Drive NW.
 
PHONE
403-955-3248
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
 
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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