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General Surgery   at
Chinook Regional Hospital
Specialty: General Surgery
Connect Care Department: LET CRH GENERAL SURGERY
Estimated time to routine appointment: Not Available
Alberta Health Services - South Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Provides preoperative care for patients requiring general day surgery and overnight same day admissions as well as postoperative care for general day surgeries.Provides day surgery for common procedures below:
  • gallbladder removal
  • hernia repair
  • hemorrhoid removal
  • mastectomy (breast removal)
  • fistula repair
Provides preoperative care for patients requiring general day surgery and overnight same day admissions as well as postoperative care for general day surgeries.Provides day surgery for common procedures below:
  • gallbladder removal
  • hernia repair
  • hemorrhoid removal
  • mastectomy (breast removal)
  • fistula repair
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Adult and Pediatric patients.

The majority of conditions managed by these surgeons involve the abdomen and its contents, but they are also involved in treating benign and malignant conditions of the the breast, soft tissue, skin and endocrine glands.

Please contact Lethbridge GI and Surgical associates for specific eligibility criteria.
Adult and Pediatric patients.

The majority of conditions managed by these surgeons involve the abdomen and its contents, but they are also involved in treating benign and malignant conditions of the the breast, soft tissue, skin and endocrine glands.

Please contact Lethbridge GI and Surgical associates for specific eligibility criteria.
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.
Please call with urgent or emergency requests.
Complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
Please call with urgent or emergency requests.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to General Surgery, type LET CRH GENERAL SURGERY in the “To Department” section and complete order. 
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to General Surgery, type LET CRH GENERAL SURGERY in the “To Department” section and complete order. 
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
Breast cancer
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Cyst
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Fistula
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Hemorrhoids
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Hernia repair
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month

Operation on gallbladder
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month

Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
If you need to reschedule or cancel an appointment please contact Lethbridge GI and Surgical Associates at 403-317-1890.
If you need to reschedule or cancel an appointment please contact Lethbridge GI and Surgical Associates at 403-317-1890.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 8:00 am - 3:45 pm
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 3:45 pm
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 3:45 pm
Thursday: 8:00 am - 3:45 pm
Friday: 8:00 am - 3:45 pm
   
 
ADDRESS
960 19 Street S
Lethbridge Alberta
T1J 1W5
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
Main floor, Outpatient Department
Main floor, Outpatient Department
 
PHONE
403-388-6920
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Patients being seen at Chinook Regional Hospital, Outpatient Department, see parking map for direction and parking information.
Patients being seen at Chinook Regional Hospital, Outpatient Department, see parking map for direction and parking information.
 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
 
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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