Child Life Services   at
Stollery Children's Hospital
Connect Care Specialty: Child Life Connect Care Department: EDM STO WMC CHILD LIFE
Alberta Health Services - Edmonton Zone





Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 2 weeks
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Provides psychosocial, developmental and educational support to children and families regarding illness and hospitalization.
Supports children and families in the hospital by:
  • developing strategies to help adapt to, cope with and adjust to illness or hospitalization
  • addressing anxiety or misunderstandings using various strategies (e.g. expressive art, therapeutic or medical play)
  • collaborating with families and other healthcare providers in the hospital and community
  • teaching children and families what to expect with treatments, illness and hospitalization
  • providing safe and fun places to play and learn through normal life experiences and special events
  • running play and teen group programs ("The Beach" and the "Teen Room")
EMERGENCY REFERRAL PROCESS
Please email Stollery.childlife@ahs.ca or call 780-407-6818
Please email Stollery.childlife@ahs.ca or call 780-407-6818
URGENT REFERRAL PROCESS
Please email Stollery.childlife@ahs.ca or call 780-407-6818
Please email Stollery.childlife@ahs.ca or call 780-407-6818
ROUTINE REFERRAL PROCESS
Routine referrals are via calls (780.407.6818) or emails (stollery.childlife@ahs.ca) to the office.

Referrals also by request support staff or families on nursing units or outpatient clinics
Routine referrals are via calls (780.407.6818) or emails (stollery.childlife@ahs.ca) to the office.

Referrals also by request support staff or families on nursing units or outpatient clinics
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Children youth and their families requiring health care services.
Children youth and their families requiring health care services.
REFERRAL PHONE
780-407-6818
REFERRAL FAX
780-407-6472
PHONE
780-407-6818
REFERRAL GUIDELINES
Emergent Reason for Referral
Additional Details
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End-of-life care service
Call office for times of availability.

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
Timing
Additional Details
Child
Past medical history
| Within 1 month

Behavioural, coping and developmental concerns
| Within 1 month

Social History
| Within 1 month

Challenges coping and adjusting to treatment
| Within 1 month

Support dealing with injury or illness
| Within 1 month

Understanding medical condition
| Within 1 month

Sibling
Past medical history
| Within 1 month

Behavioural, coping and developmental concerns
| Within 1 month

Social History
| Within 1 month

Support with sibling injury or illness
| Within 1 month

Youth
Past medical history
| Within 1 month

Behavioural, coping and developmental concerns
| Within 1 month

Social History
| Within 1 month

Challenges coping and adjusting to treatment
| Within 1 month

Support dealing with injury or illness
| Within 1 month

Understanding medical condition
| Within 1 month
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
Provides psychosocial, developmental and educational support to children and families regarding illness and hospitalization.

Check calendar located outside of WMC 4B1.08 for updated program times.
Tuesday and Wednesday night family night programs and the beach is open on weekends on Saturday and every 2nd Sunday.

COMMUNICATION PROCESS
Communication of referral receipt to referral
source will occur within 7 calendar days.
 
Communication of appointment details or wait list status to patient and referral
source will occur within 14 calendar days.
 
Communication of initial appointment outcomes to referral
source will occur within 30 calendar days.
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
If you are unable to attend a scheduled appointment, please contact the clinic a minimum of 48 hours in advance.
If you are unable to attend a scheduled appointment, please contact the clinic a minimum of 48 hours in advance.
DIRECTIONS
The Stollery Children’s Hospital is located in the Walter C. Mackenzie centre located on the University of Alberta campus. There is a patient drop-off and pickup area at the main entrance of the hospital on the east building on 112th street and 84th avenue, directly north of the University of Alberta and Stollery Children’s Hospital’s emergency departments.                                                                                      Bus stops at 112 and 114 St
LRT Health Sciences station is located west across 114 St.
The Stollery Children’s Hospital is located in the Walter C. Mackenzie centre located on the University of Alberta campus. There is a patient drop-off and pickup area at the main entrance of the hospital on the east building on 112th street and 84th avenue, directly north of the University of Alberta and Stollery Children’s Hospital’s emergency departments.                                                                                      Bus stops at 112 and 114 St
LRT Health Sciences station is located west across 114 St.
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. Public parking is GST exempt.
Pay by Plate machines accept Canadian coins or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express). Maximum 28 Canadian coins per transaction, no pennies.
Machines provide no change.Pay on Foot machines accept Canadian coins and bills, or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express). These machines will provide change.
Parking Office accepts payment by cash, credit card, debit or cheque.
Rates apply 24 hours per day, and are in effect for all public parkers, including those with provincially issued placards for persons with disabilities. Public parking is GST exempt.
Pay by Plate machines accept Canadian coins or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express). Maximum 28 Canadian coins per transaction, no pennies.
Machines provide no change.Pay on Foot machines accept Canadian coins and bills, or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express). These machines will provide change.
Parking Office accepts payment by cash, credit card, debit or cheque.
ADDRESS
8440 112 Street
Edmonton Alberta
T6G 2B7
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 7:00 am - 4:00 pm
Tuesday: 7:00 am - 4:00 pm
Wednesday: 7:00 am - 4:00 pm
Thursday: 7:00 am - 4:00 pm
Friday: 7:00 am - 4:00 pm


Description:
Check calendar located outside of WMC 4B1.08 for updated program times.

 
   
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

The primary purpose of the All Locations list is to let the user easily access any location of a service without going back to the main search screen.

The locations listed have 3 background colors:
  • Green means the service@location has referral information attached to it.
  • Brown means the service@location never had referral information attached to it, or it has unpublished referral information.
  • Red means
    • IA changed the service@location's status to something other than Current
    • It was deleted if it is an ARD service@location.
Green  and Brown are always at the top of the list. These are the Service@Locations with the status of Current.
The Red list at the bottom consists of non-current Service@locations that once had Published referral information in the ARD.
If the referral information was never published in ARD the 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 Service@Locations to ones that are current.

Common Scenario:
A Service moves from one location to another. In this case the IA Service@Location record will be made defunct (non-current) and a new 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 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 Service@Location to a current service@location.

Individual referral process
  1. Click on a non-current (Red) 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 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 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 Service@Location you viewed in the first step.
  5. Click Save and the referral info is transferred from the non-current Service@Location to the current one.
  6. Repeat these steps for each Service@Location that needs attention.

Common referral process - 2 sub cases.
Case 1: At least 1 current Service@Location with common referral info is with current status for this service; One or more Service@Locations where replaced by new one.
  1. Click on any current Service@Location whether it has referral info (Green) or not (Brown).
  2. The 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 Service@Locations for a 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 service locations.
Generally we want to replicate current common referral info to new or replaced 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 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 Service@Location to another.

 

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