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Emergency Information 
Addiction and Mental Health - Community Psychiatric Services, Adult   at
Medicine Hat Provincial Building
Specialty: Addiction and Mental Health
Connect Care Department: MED MHPB AMH PSYCHIATRY
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 1 month
Alberta Health Services - South Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Provides psychiatric services and consultations to clients attached to Adult Addiction and Mental Health Community Services.Addiction services
Support for individuals and families who have concerns surrounding alcohol, drugs, gambling, and tobacco use. This service is aimed at preventing, reducing or recovering from the harmful effects of substance use and gambling. Referrals can be made to residential detoxification services or treatment centres.
Mental Health Services
Short- and long-term counselling is available for individuals who have a significant mental health concern. Consultation and/or referrals to other agencies may also be offered.
Mental Health Outreach Services
This includes community support services as well as support groups for individuals with persistent/chronic mental illness.
Child Life Specialist
Provides in home support for parents with children up to the age of six who require addiction and mental health support.
Provides psychiatric services and consultations to clients attached to Adult Addiction and Mental Health Community Services.Addiction services
Support for individuals and families who have concerns surrounding alcohol, drugs, gambling, and tobacco use. This service is aimed at preventing, reducing or recovering from the harmful effects of substance use and gambling. Referrals can be made to residential detoxification services or treatment centres.
Mental Health Services
Short- and long-term counselling is available for individuals who have a significant mental health concern. Consultation and/or referrals to other agencies may also be offered.
Mental Health Outreach Services
This includes community support services as well as support groups for individuals with persistent/chronic mental illness.
Child Life Specialist
Provides in home support for parents with children up to the age of six who require addiction and mental health support.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
  • Adults (18 years or older)
  • Valid Alberta Health Care Card & Government Issued Photo ID
  • Must be registered client of Adult Addiction & Mental Health Services. (External referrals are not accepted)
  • Adults (18 years or older)
  • Valid Alberta Health Care Card & Government Issued Photo ID
  • Must be registered client of Adult Addiction & Mental Health Services. (External referrals are not accepted)
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Addiction and Mental Health, type MED MHPB AMH PSYCHIATRY in the “To Department” section and complete order. Referral Letter must be completed prior to client being accepted and assigned for service.
Client must be attached to a Mental Health Therapist or Addictions Counsellor in order to access this service.
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Addiction and Mental Health, type MED MHPB AMH PSYCHIATRY in the “To Department” section and complete order. Referral Letter must be completed prior to client being accepted and assigned for service.
Client must be attached to a Mental Health Therapist or Addictions Counsellor in order to access this service.
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
403-529-3500
FAX
403-529-3562
REFERRAL PHONE
403-529-3500
REFERRAL FAX
403-529-3562
REFERRAL FORM
Referral Form
To be processed, referrals to AAMH-South must be on the Recovery Alberta Generic Referral Form and include the following information:
  • Client Name
  • Client DOB
  • PHN #
  • Client Contact Information
  • Referral Source, phone number and fax number
  • Reason for referral
  • Client informed of referral
If you would like to be notified of the outcome of your referral, please ensure your contact information is included.
Referral Form
To be processed, referrals to AAMH-South must be on the Recovery Alberta Generic Referral Form and include the following information:
  • Client Name
  • Client DOB
  • PHN #
  • Client Contact Information
  • Referral Source, phone number and fax number
  • Reason for referral
  • Client informed of referral
If you would like to be notified of the outcome of your referral, please ensure your contact information is included.
CLICK + TO VIEW REFERRAL GUIDELINES
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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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Addiction
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
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Anxiety
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
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Depression
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
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Mental health assessment
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
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Mental health treatment
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
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Mental illness
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
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OCD - Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
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Postpartum depression
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
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Schizophrenia
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
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Suicide risk
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
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MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
Patients are strongly encouraged to attend all scheduled appointments.
Please ensure to provide 48 hours notification of cancellation for an appointment if possible.
Patients are strongly encouraged to attend all scheduled appointments.
Please ensure to provide 48 hours notification of cancellation for an appointment if possible.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 7:15 pm
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Thursday: 8:00 am - 7:15 pm
Friday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
   
 
ADDRESS
0G7
346 3 Street SE
Medicine Hat Alberta
T1A 0G7
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
 
DIRECTIONS
Our office (Room #2) is located on the lower level of the Medicine Hat Provincial Building facing 2nd Street SE. Enter through the double glass doors on the far right of the building (by cement picnic table) and proceed up the staircase. Our office is on your left. Wheelchair access is available through the building’s side entrance off of 3rd Avenue.
Our office (Room #2) is located on the lower level of the Medicine Hat Provincial Building facing 2nd Street SE. Enter through the double glass doors on the far right of the building (by cement picnic table) and proceed up the staircase. Our office is on your left. Wheelchair access is available through the building’s side entrance off of 3rd Avenue.
 
PHONE
403-529-3500
PATIENT RESOURCES
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Free parking is available onsite.
Street parking is available.
Free parking is available onsite.
Street parking is available.
 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Virtual appointments are available if needed.
Virtual appointments are available if needed.
 
PARKING MAP
There is currently no parking map available for this site.
There is currently no parking map available for this site.
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

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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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