Pediatric Occupational Therapy   at
George McDougall - Smoky Lake Healthcare Centre
Specialty: Occupational Therapy
Connect Care Department: SMO GMHC PEDIATRIC OT
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 3 months
Alberta Health Services - North Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
The goal is to enable children to participate as fully as possible in the activities of everyday life, and to support children in continuing to grow and develop skills that support lifelong occupational engagement.Occupational therapists apply knowledge and skills to assess, collaborate with, empower, and enable clients to:
  • learn new ways of doing activities
  • develop or regain skills
  • use devices, materials and equipment to make life easier
  • adapt their environment
  • maximize their independence across their lifespan
The goal is to enable children to participate as fully as possible in the activities of everyday life, and to support children in continuing to grow and develop skills that support lifelong occupational engagement.Occupational therapists apply knowledge and skills to assess, collaborate with, empower, and enable clients to:
  • learn new ways of doing activities
  • develop or regain skills
  • use devices, materials and equipment to make life easier
  • adapt their environment
  • maximize their independence across their lifespan
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Children from birth to 17 years 11 months.
Children from birth to 17 years 11 months.
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.
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 Occupational Therapy, type SMO GMHC PEDIATRIC OT in the “To Department” section and complete order.  
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Occupational Therapy, type SMO GMHC PEDIATRIC OT in the “To Department” section and complete order.  
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR SELF-REFERRAL
Please call the clinic using the contact information in this profile to initiate a referral.
Please call the clinic using the contact information in this profile to initiate a referral.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
The ability to provide comprehensive occupational therapy services is dependent on available staffing. 
Please contact site prior to referral to determine what ambulatory / community OT services are available at present.
The ability to provide comprehensive occupational therapy services is dependent on available staffing. 
Please contact site prior to referral to determine what ambulatory / community OT services are available at present.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Referral receipt to referring source within 30 days.
  • Acceptance via appointment details or wait list status letter to referring source and patient within 30 days.
  • Wait list status update every 30 days.
  • Appointment outcome to referral source within 30 days.
 
PHONE
855-595-5711
FAX
780-644-1724
REFERRAL PHONE
855-595-5711
REFERRAL FAX
780-644-1724
REFERRAL FORM
LINKED SPECIALISTS
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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Occupational therapy
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
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Occupational therapy assessment
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
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Occupational therapy education
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Email
Print
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
If you are unable to attend a scheduled appointment, please contact the clinic a minimum of 24 hours in advance to re-schedule.
If you are unable to attend a scheduled appointment, please contact the clinic a minimum of 24 hours in advance to re-schedule.
 
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
   
 
ADDRESS
4212 55 Avenue
Smoky Lake Alberta
T0A 3C0
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 to your appointment.
  • Please contact department if an interpreter is required.
  • Please bring legal guardianship documents in applicable
  • 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 to your appointment.
  • Please contact department if an interpreter is required.
  • Please bring legal guardianship documents in applicable
 
DIRECTIONS
 
PHONE
855-595-5711
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Parking is available on site.
Parking is available on site.
 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Services may be provided in person and virtually
Services may be provided in person and virtually
 
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

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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