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Nephrology Central Access and Triage - Alberta Kidney Care - South at
Calgary Zone and Area
Central Access Healthcare Service
Specialty: Nephrology
Connect Care Department: CALGARY ZONE NEPHROLOGY CAT
Estimated time to routine appointment: Not Available
Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone
CENTRAL ACCESS SERVICES
This is a central triage department for people who need to see a nephrologist. Provides a central referral service for doctors, emergency departments, and urgent care centres that need to refer people to see a nephrologist (a doctor who specializes in kidneys and kidney disease) in the Calgary Zone.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Exclusion criteria. Please refer to Urology instead if patient has:
- Enlarged prostate
- Isolated Microscopic Hematuria
- Renal Masses suspicious for Malignancy
- Symptomatic Kidney Stone
ROUTINE REFERRAL PROCESS
Referrals to this service can be submitted via:
- Fax: Non-Connect Care users complete the referral form and fax it to the fax number listed on this profile.
- Connect Care: Connect Care users use the Ambulatory Referral Order to CALGARY ZONE NEPHROLOGY CAT
- All referrals are to be directed to "CALGARY ZONE NEPHROLOGY CAT" for triaging. If the referring department is live on Connect Care an "Ambulatory Referral to Nephrology" with an "Internal" Referral Class is to be selected.
- All referral entries will need to enter “CALGARY ZONE NEPHROLOGY CAT” into the “To Dept” of the referral order.
- All Alberta Kidney Care- South
- Nephrology Kidney Stone Clinic(CGY SHC STONE CL)
- And external nephrology administrative led clinics.
URGENT REFERRAL PROCESS
Indicate urgent need.
- GFR less than 15 mls/min
- drop in GFR> 10 mls/min over days to weeks
- Hematuria and Proteinuria with ACR in nephrotic range.
- Suspected vasculitis or autoimmune disease with hematuria and proteinuria.
EMERGENCY REFERRAL PROCESS
All emergent calls can be routed to a nephrologist via Specialist Link. If referral appears emergent, nephrologist is notified and patient is sent to ER.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
- Referral receipt to referring source within 3 days.
- Wait list status update every 10 days.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
Any out of province referrals should send along specialist reports, recent laboratory results and biopsy results.
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CENTRAL ACCESS REFERRAL PHONE
403-955-6389
CENTRAL ACCESS REFERRAL FAX
403-592-4968
REFERRAL FORMS
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CENTRAL ACCESS LINKED SERVICES
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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
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.
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:
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