Nutrition Counselling - Pediatric   at
Royal Alexandra Hospital
Connect Care Specialty: Nutrition Connect Care Department: EDM RAH CSC NUTRITION
Alberta Health Services - Edmonton Zone





Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 2 weeks
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
A registered dietitian assists clients in following a special diet and improve their eating pattern to manage their medical condition.
Information and services provided for:
  • general nutritional counselling
  • healthy eating for optimal growth
  • pediatric weight management
  • allergies / food intolerances
  • breastfeeding / formula feeding concerns
  • failure to thrive
  • inappropriate diet for age or restricted diet that may lead to nutrient deficiencies
Additional service:
EMERGENCY REFERRAL PROCESS
Direct patients to the nearest Emergency Department if they are experiencing a serious illness or injury. Patients with potentially life threatening conditions should immediately phone 9-1-1.  If an emergency consult is required, providers can call RAAPID NORTH (patients north of Red Deer) at 1-800-282-9911 or 780-735-0811 or RAAPID SOUTH (patients in and south of Red Deer) at 1-800-661-1700 or 403-944-4486. 
Direct patients to the nearest Emergency Department if they are experiencing a serious illness or injury. Patients with potentially life threatening conditions should immediately phone 9-1-1.  If an emergency consult is required, providers can call RAAPID NORTH (patients north of Red Deer) at 1-800-282-9911 or 780-735-0811 or RAAPID SOUTH (patients in and south of Red Deer) at 1-800-661-1700 or 403-944-4486. 
URGENT REFERRAL PROCESS
Direct patients to an urgent care centre if they are experiencing unexpected, but non-life threatening health concern, illness or injury that require same day/evening treatment. Patients can call Heath Link by dialing 8-1-1 for nurse advice and health information. If an urgent consult is required, providers can call RAAPID NORTH (patients north of Red Deer) at 1-800-282-9911 or 780-735-0811 or RAAPID SOUTH (patients in and south of Red Deer) at 1-800-661-1700 or 403-944-4486.
Direct patients to an urgent care centre if they are experiencing unexpected, but non-life threatening health concern, illness or injury that require same day/evening treatment. Patients can call Heath Link by dialing 8-1-1 for nurse advice and health information. If an urgent consult is required, providers can call RAAPID NORTH (patients north of Red Deer) at 1-800-282-9911 or 780-735-0811 or RAAPID SOUTH (patients in and south of Red Deer) at 1-800-661-1700 or 403-944-4486.
ROUTINE REFERRAL PROCESS
Professional Referral Required
Professional Referral Required
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Pediatrics (0 - 18 years old)
Pediatrics (0 - 18 years old)
REFERRAL PHONE
780-735-5867
REFERRAL FAX
780-735-5105
PHONE
780-735-5867
FAX
780-735-5105
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
Timing
Additional Details
Breastfeeding education
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
| Within 1 month

Past medical history
| Within 1 month

Failure to thrive
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
| Within 1 month

Past medical history
| Within 1 month

Food allergy
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
| Within 1 month

Past medical history
| Within 1 month

Food intolerance
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
| Within 1 month

Past medical history
| Within 1 month

Healthy eating education
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
| Within 1 month

Past medical history
| Within 1 month

Nutrition education
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
| Within 1 month

Past medical history
| Within 1 month

Weight management program
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
| Within 1 month

Past medical history
| Within 1 month
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
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 14 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
Clinic Specific Directions: Child Health Ambulatory Clinic, 2nd Floor Children's Centre.

Royal Alexandra is located in Edmonton's inner-city. Just off of Kingsway NW and 101 St NW.Bus stop 111 Ave, 106 St NW
LRT station; Kingsway
Clinic Specific Directions: Child Health Ambulatory Clinic, 2nd Floor Children's Centre.

Royal Alexandra is located in Edmonton's inner-city. Just off of Kingsway NW and 101 St NW.Bus stop 111 Ave, 106 St NW
LRT station; Kingsway
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
Child Health Ambulatory Clinic, 2nd Floor Children's Centre
10240 Kingsway NW
Edmonton Alberta
T5H 3V9
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday:
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
   
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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