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Tuberculosis Program   at
Alberta Wide
Specialty: Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Connect Care Department: EDM SSP PROV TB
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 6 months
Alberta Health Services - Provincial Health Services
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
A provincial program that offers complete services to prevent and control tuberculosis (TB) in Alberta.This service provides services for the following referral types:
  • active TB suspected / TB treatment
  • contact investigation and follow-up
  • immigration screening
  • LTBI screening and treatment
  • other screening: transplant, immunosuppressed, and Longterm Care placement
For additional information on Tuberculosis visit: myhealth.alberta.ca
A provincial program that offers complete services to prevent and control tuberculosis (TB) in Alberta.This service provides services for the following referral types:
  • active TB suspected / TB treatment
  • contact investigation and follow-up
  • immigration screening
  • LTBI screening and treatment
  • other screening: transplant, immunosuppressed, and Longterm Care placement
For additional information on Tuberculosis visit: myhealth.alberta.ca
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
See TB Referral Form.

- Chest radiography within the last 6 months is required.
- Collection of 3 sputum for AFB/mycobacteria culture are required for people with symptoms of active TB, screened for medical surveillance, or contacts of active cases. Bacteriology Requisitions must be completed and submitted with sputum samples. Please use the sputum requisition found in the bacteriology requisition link.
- Collection of 1 sputum sample for AFB/mycobacteria culture for people not listed as above is required. A Bacteriology Requisition must be completed and submitted with the sputum sample. Please use the sputum requisition found in the bacteriology requisition link.
See TB Referral Form.

- Chest radiography within the last 6 months is required.
- Collection of 3 sputum for AFB/mycobacteria culture are required for people with symptoms of active TB, screened for medical surveillance, or contacts of active cases. Bacteriology Requisitions must be completed and submitted with sputum samples. Please use the sputum requisition found in the bacteriology requisition link.
- Collection of 1 sputum sample for AFB/mycobacteria culture for people not listed as above is required. A Bacteriology Requisition must be completed and submitted with the sputum sample. Please use the sputum requisition found in the bacteriology requisition link.
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
Please complete the Tuberculosis Referral Form and fax it to Central TB Services using the contact information in this profile.

For urgent referrals: TB Central Service Physician On Call - via UAH Switchboard (780-407-8822)
Please complete the Tuberculosis Referral Form and fax it to Central TB Services using the contact information in this profile.

For urgent referrals: TB Central Service Physician On Call - via UAH Switchboard (780-407-8822)
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Public Health and Preventive Medicine, type EDM SSP PROV TB in the “To Department” section and complete order.
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Public Health and Preventive Medicine, type EDM SSP PROV TB in the “To Department” section and complete order.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
TB Central Services provides care for people living in North, Central or South Zones. The service is provided in collaboration with Public Health in each zone.

Referrals for other Albertans should be directed to:
• For Edmonton Zone: send referral to Edmonton TB Clinic (Aberhart)
• For Calgary Zone: send referral to Calgary TB Clinic (Sunridge)
TB Central Services provides care for people living in North, Central or South Zones. The service is provided in collaboration with Public Health in each zone.

Referrals for other Albertans should be directed to:
• For Edmonton Zone: send referral to Edmonton TB Clinic (Aberhart)
• For Calgary Zone: send referral to Calgary TB Clinic (Sunridge)
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
780-735-1464
FAX
780-409-4206
REFERRAL PHONE
780-735-1464
REFERRAL FAX
780-409-4206
REFERRAL FORM
Tuberculosis Referral Form

SPUTUM FOR AFB/MYCOBACTERIA CULTURE REQUISITION
Bacteriology Requisition
Tuberculosis Referral Form

SPUTUM FOR AFB/MYCOBACTERIA CULTURE REQUISITION
Bacteriology Requisition
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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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Tuberculosis
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Chest radiography
 
Within 6 months
Collection of 1 sputum sample for AFB/mycobacteria culture for people not listed as above is required.
 
Current
Collection of 3 sputum for AFB/mycobacteria culture are required for people with symptoms of active TB, screened for medical surveillance, or contacts of active cases
 
Current
Bacteriology Requisitions must be completed and submitted with sputum samples. Please use the sputum requisition found in the bacteriology requisition link.
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
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MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
If you are unable to attend a scheduled appointment, please contact the public health community health centre a minimum of 48 hours in advance.
If you are unable to attend a scheduled appointment, please contact the public health community health centre a minimum of 48 hours in advance.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 8:15 am - 4:30 pm
Tuesday: 8:15 am - 4:30 pm
Wednesday: 8:15 am - 4:30 pm
Thursday: 8:15 am - 4:30 pm
Friday: 8:15 am - 4:30 pm
   
 
ADDRESS
TB Central Services
Alberta
T5K 2B6
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
Clients are seen in Public Health Community Health Centres locally in North, Central and South Zones.  (TB Central Services is a consultative/virtual service.)
Clients are seen in Public Health Community Health Centres locally in North, Central and South Zones.  (TB Central Services is a consultative/virtual service.)
 
PHONE
780-735-1464
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Parking would vary for each Public Health Community Heath Centres.
Parking would vary for each Public Health Community Heath Centres.
 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
TB Central Services is a consultative/virtual service
TB Central Services is a consultative/virtual service
 
PARKING MAP
There is currently no parking map available for this site.
There is currently no parking map available for this site.
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
N/A

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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