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This healthcare service has 2 current healthcare service locations.
Pulmonary Clinic - Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)   at
South Health Campus
Specialty: Pulmonology
Connect Care Department: CGY SHC PULM ILD
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 12 months
Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
This program provides specialized respiratory care for patients with advanced Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD).ILD experts provide confirmation of diagnosis through the ILD multidisciplinary discussion and formation of a treatment plan.

The ILD Clinic offers patients:
  • symptom management of breathlessness and decreased exercise tolerance
  • evaluation of suitability for potential biologic therapies
  • assessment for home oxygen therapy
  • goals of care discussion
This program provides specialized respiratory care for patients with advanced Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD).ILD experts provide confirmation of diagnosis through the ILD multidisciplinary discussion and formation of a treatment plan.

The ILD Clinic offers patients:
  • symptom management of breathlessness and decreased exercise tolerance
  • evaluation of suitability for potential biologic therapies
  • assessment for home oxygen therapy
  • goals of care discussion
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Eligibility is dependent on testing done by the referring physician.
There is a list on the Alberta Referral Pathways of which testing needs to be done for which referral type (www.ahs.ca/pathways).
Eligibility is dependent on testing done by the referring physician.
There is a list on the Alberta Referral Pathways of which testing needs to be done for which referral type (www.ahs.ca/pathways).
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
Professional referral required for this service.
Complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
Professional referral required for this service.
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 Pulmonology, type CGY SHC PULM ILD in the “To Department” section and complete order. 
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Pulmonology, type CGY SHC PULM ILD in the “To Department” section and complete order. 
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
Pulmonary consulting services are organized through the Calgary Zone Pulmonary Central Access and Triage (PCAT). Working with Alberta Referral Pathways and Primary Care, PCAT has developed new approaches to improve patient access to appropriate pulmonary care.
PCAT arranges new patient appointments for general pulmonary clinics and asthma/COPD clinics in the outpatient departments at all four acute care sites in Calgary. PCAT also arranges appointments for patients requiring subspecialty services (bronchiectasis, cough, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension, neuromuscular, NTM, Lung transplant and follow-up) at specific sites.
PCAT will book patients with the first available, appropriate pulmonary consultant based on the reason for referral and geographic location. Referring providers may request an appointment with a specific consultant and/or at a specific site.
Referrals will be handled most efficiently and effectively if the AHS generic referral form is used and the required supporting documentation is provided.
Pulmonary consulting services are organized through the Calgary Zone Pulmonary Central Access and Triage (PCAT). Working with Alberta Referral Pathways and Primary Care, PCAT has developed new approaches to improve patient access to appropriate pulmonary care.
PCAT arranges new patient appointments for general pulmonary clinics and asthma/COPD clinics in the outpatient departments at all four acute care sites in Calgary. PCAT also arranges appointments for patients requiring subspecialty services (bronchiectasis, cough, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary hypertension, neuromuscular, NTM, Lung transplant and follow-up) at specific sites.
PCAT will book patients with the first available, appropriate pulmonary consultant based on the reason for referral and geographic location. Referring providers may request an appointment with a specific consultant and/or at a specific site.
Referrals will be handled most efficiently and effectively if the AHS generic referral form is used and the required supporting documentation is provided.
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
403-943-4718
403-956-2811 - Appointment request / cancellation
FAX
403-592-4201
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
Interstitial lung disease
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
Patients who miss multiple appointments without notifying the clinic, may require a new referral. Patients can reschedule appointments by calling the appointment booking line at 403.956-2811.
Patients who miss multiple appointments without notifying the clinic, may require a new referral. Patients can reschedule appointments by calling the appointment booking line at 403.956-2811.
 
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
Description:
Closed on all statutory holidays.
   
 
ADDRESS
610127
4448 Front Street SE
Calgary Alberta
T3M 1M4
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
 
DIRECTIONS
The South Health Campus Pulmonary Clinic - Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Clinic is located on the 6th floor of the Outpatient Tower. Please take the Outpatient Elevators across from the Good Earth Cafe on main floor. The clinic is located directly across from the elevators within the Pulmonary Clinic.
The South Health Campus Pulmonary Clinic - Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Clinic is located on the 6th floor of the Outpatient Tower. Please take the Outpatient Elevators across from the Good Earth Cafe on main floor. The clinic is located directly across from the elevators within the Pulmonary Clinic.
 
PHONE
403-943-4718
403-956-2811 - Appointment request / cancellation
 
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 must be paid for in advance of attending your scheduled appointment
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 must be paid for in advance of attending your scheduled appointment
 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
PARKING MAP
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

This facility is wheelchair accessible.


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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