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Adult Bariatric Specialty Clinic   at
Queen Elizabeth II Ambulatory Care Centre
Connect Care Specialty: Bariatrics
Connect Care Department: GRP QEII CDM BARIATRIC
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 18 months
Alberta Health Services - North Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Provides clinical treatment options for adults with obesity.This clinic provides medical, psychological, and surgical interventions for weight management and improving health. Support is provided to individuals with obesity who require complex medical management and/or surgical intervention.

The initial clinic assessment determines the patient’s specific barriers to managing their weight. Developing an individualized care plan with the patient may include:
  • behaviour modification
  • counseling for nutrition, physical activity, and mental health
  • drug treatment and / or bariatric surgery (surgical treatment for obesity)
  • coordinating care and transitioning the patient back to their family physician with recommendations from the clinic
Clinic staff will assess whether bariatric surgery is an option for the patient. If a patient is a suitable candidate for bariatric surgery, he or she will be referred to the Edmonton Adult Bariatric Specialty Clinic; Grande Prairie Adult Bariatric Specialty Clinic staff will support the patient before and after the surgery.

For patients who have had previous bariatric surgery, please visit:
Provides clinical treatment options for adults with obesity.This clinic provides medical, psychological, and surgical interventions for weight management and improving health. Support is provided to individuals with obesity who require complex medical management and/or surgical intervention.

The initial clinic assessment determines the patient’s specific barriers to managing their weight. Developing an individualized care plan with the patient may include:
  • behaviour modification
  • counseling for nutrition, physical activity, and mental health
  • drug treatment and / or bariatric surgery (surgical treatment for obesity)
  • coordinating care and transitioning the patient back to their family physician with recommendations from the clinic
Clinic staff will assess whether bariatric surgery is an option for the patient. If a patient is a suitable candidate for bariatric surgery, he or she will be referred to the Edmonton Adult Bariatric Specialty Clinic; Grande Prairie Adult Bariatric Specialty Clinic staff will support the patient before and after the surgery.

For patients who have had previous bariatric surgery, please visit:
ROUTINE REFERRAL PROCESS
Doctor referrals must include current BMI and medical history. Once a referral is received, the patient is contacted by the clinic clerk to make an appointment for an initial assessment and the referring physician is notified of this appointment.
Doctor referrals must include current BMI and medical history. Once a referral is received, the patient is contacted by the clinic clerk to make an appointment for an initial assessment and the referring physician is notified of this appointment.
URGENT REFERRAL PROCESS
Please indicate upon referral if this patient is to be considered urgent.
Please indicate upon referral if this patient is to be considered urgent.
EMERGENCY REFERRAL PROCESS
This service does not have an emergency referral process. Concerns of serious illness or injury should be directed to go to the nearest Emergency Department. Patients with potentially life threatening conditions should immediately phone 9-1-1.
This service does not have an emergency referral process. Concerns of serious illness or injury should be directed to go to the nearest Emergency Department. Patients with potentially life threatening conditions should immediately phone 9-1-1.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Adults, age 17 and over (60) with:
  • BMI ¥ 35 kg/m2, with an obesity-related comorbidity (ex. hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, osteoarthritis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, sleep apnea, depression, polycystic ovarian syndrome, cardiovascular disease). Or
  • BMI ¥ 40 kg/m2 with or without comorbidity, and
  • No severe, untreated personality disorder, active psychosis, active substance dependencies, and / or major cognitive impairment.
Adults, age 17 and over (60) with:
  • BMI ¥ 35 kg/m2, with an obesity-related comorbidity (ex. hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, osteoarthritis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, sleep apnea, depression, polycystic ovarian syndrome, cardiovascular disease). Or
  • BMI ¥ 40 kg/m2 with or without comorbidity, and
  • No severe, untreated personality disorder, active psychosis, active substance dependencies, and / or major cognitive impairment.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
Clinic staff will assess whether bariatric surgery is an option for the patient. If a patient is a suitable candidate for bariatric surgery, he or she will be referred to the Edmonton Adult Bariatric Specialty Clinic; Grand Prairie Adult Bariatric Specialty Clinic staff will support the patient before and after the surgery.
Clinic staff will assess whether bariatric surgery is an option for the patient. If a patient is a suitable candidate for bariatric surgery, he or she will be referred to the Edmonton Adult Bariatric Specialty Clinic; Grand Prairie Adult Bariatric Specialty Clinic staff will support the patient before and after the surgery.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Communication of referral receipt to referral source will occur within 2 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.
 
PHONE
780-538-7648
FAX
780-670-3617
REFERRAL RESOURCES
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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
Timing
Additional Details
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Body mass index 30+ - obesity
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Height and weight
 
Within 3 months
Ferritin
 
Within 3 months
Electrolytes measurement
 
Within 3 months
Lipids measurement
 
Within 3 months
BMI - Body mass index
 
Within 3 months
Creatinine
 
Within 3 months
Complete blood count
 
Within 3 months
Albumin
 
Within 3 months
Bilirubin
 
Within 3 months
Diabetes mellitus screening
 
Within 3 months
Parathyroid
 
Within 3 months
Patient Health Questionnaire
 
Within 3 months
Sleep Related Breathing Test
 
Within 3 months
Thyroid stimulating hormone
 
Within 3 months
Vitamin B12 level - finding
 
Within 3 months
Hemoglobin, A1C and fasting Glucose
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
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MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES

If the patientis unable to attend the scheduled appointment, please notify the performingdepartment.  Refer to your appointment notification letter for the minimum required notice for each specific procedure.  Failure to attend (No-Show)a scheduled appointment or to not provide notice within the required timeframewill result in the referring physician being notified and having toreschedule the appointment if still required.

If the patientis unable to attend the scheduled appointment, please notify the performingdepartment.  Refer to your appointment notification letter for the minimum required notice for each specific procedure.  Failure to attend (No-Show)a scheduled appointment or to not provide notice within the required timeframewill result in the referring physician being notified and having toreschedule the appointment if still required.

 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 7:45 am - 4:00 pm
Tuesday: 7:45 am - 4:00 pm
Wednesday: 7:45 am - 4:00 pm
Thursday: 7:45 am - 4:00 pm
Friday: 7:45 am - 4:00 pm
   
 
ADDRESS
Suite 167, 1 East Mackenzie Place
10409 98 Street
Grande Prairie Alberta
T8V 2E8
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
 
DIRECTIONS
1 MacKenzie Place 104th Avenue and 98th Street
1 MacKenzie Place 104th Avenue and 98th Street
 
PHONE
780-538-7648
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Parking available outside the entrance to the facility
Parking available outside the entrance to the facility
 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
PARKING MAP
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

Wheelchair accessible washrooms.


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  • Brown means the healthcare service@location never had referral information attached to it, or it has unpublished referral information.
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    • IA changed the healthcare service@location's status to something other than Current
    • It was deleted if it is an ARD healthcare service@location.
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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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