Prenatal Genetics   at
Royal Alexandra Hospital
Estimated time to routine appointment: Not Available
Alberta Health Services - Provincial Health Services
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Provides genetic assessment, genetic counselling, screening, and diagnosis to individuals with pregnancies at risk for birth defects or genetic conditions.The goal of prenatal genetic counselling is to provide information and support to pregnant women/couples and their families who may have an increased chance of having a child with a birth defect or genetic condition.

Prenatal genetic counsellors/geneticists help you understand the medical information more clearly and support you in making personal decisions about the health of your pregnancy.

Prenatal genetic counsellors/geneticists also help individuals who are not pregnant but have concerns about having a child with a genetic condition, because of their own health or their family history.

For more information visit the Clinical & Metabolic Genetics website.
Provides genetic assessment, genetic counselling, screening, and diagnosis to individuals with pregnancies at risk for birth defects or genetic conditions.The goal of prenatal genetic counselling is to provide information and support to pregnant women/couples and their families who may have an increased chance of having a child with a birth defect or genetic condition.

Prenatal genetic counsellors/geneticists help you understand the medical information more clearly and support you in making personal decisions about the health of your pregnancy.

Prenatal genetic counsellors/geneticists also help individuals who are not pregnant but have concerns about having a child with a genetic condition, because of their own health or their family history.

For more information visit the Clinical & Metabolic Genetics website.
ROUTINE REFERRAL PROCESS
Professional referral required
Professional referral required
URGENT REFERRAL PROCESS
Please indicate when referring if this is to be considered Urgent.
Please indicate when referring if this is to be considered Urgent.
EMERGENCY REFERRAL PROCESS
Phone or Fax Clinic directly
Phone or Fax Clinic directly
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
The Prenatal Genetics Clinic is a high risk clinic. Common indications for referral are:
Positive prenatal screen result
Ultrasound suggesting/confirming a congenital anomaly or syndrome.
Teratogen exposure
Family history or previous pregnancy impacted by a suspected or confirmed genetic condition, suggesting an increased risk in present pregnancy.
Couple known to carry a recessive gene (e.g cystic fibrosis, hemoglobinopathy)
Woman impacted by a medical condition placing the pregnancy at risk (e.g PKU, Epilepsy, MS)
Prenatal Genetics works collaboratively with the Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic.
The Prenatal Genetics Clinic is a high risk clinic. Common indications for referral are:
Positive prenatal screen result
Ultrasound suggesting/confirming a congenital anomaly or syndrome.
Teratogen exposure
Family history or previous pregnancy impacted by a suspected or confirmed genetic condition, suggesting an increased risk in present pregnancy.
Couple known to carry a recessive gene (e.g cystic fibrosis, hemoglobinopathy)
Woman impacted by a medical condition placing the pregnancy at risk (e.g PKU, Epilepsy, MS)
Prenatal Genetics works collaboratively with the Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
All Prenatal and relevant medical records required. Patients are contacted directly by a genetic counsellor. 
Depending on indication of referral, patients may be seen by a geneticist or genetic counsellor. All geneticist appointments are face-to-face appointments and take on average 1 hour. Genetic counseling appointments may be managed over the phone with the patient, in person or by telehealth.
The Outreach Genetics Clinics in Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Red Deer also see patients for the same indications as noted.
All Prenatal and relevant medical records required. Patients are contacted directly by a genetic counsellor. 
Depending on indication of referral, patients may be seen by a geneticist or genetic counsellor. All geneticist appointments are face-to-face appointments and take on average 1 hour. Genetic counseling appointments may be managed over the phone with the patient, in person or by telehealth.
The Outreach Genetics Clinics in Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Red Deer also see patients for the same indications as noted.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Communication of referral receipt to referral source will occur within 1 calendar days.
  • Communication of appointment details or wait list status to patient and referral source will occur within 2 calendar days.
  • Communication of initial appointment outcomes to referral source will occur within 7 calendar days.
 
PHONE
780-735-4813
FAX
780-735-4814
REFERRAL FORM
Referral form not required, physician letter is acceptable
Referral form not required, physician letter is acceptable
LINKED SPECIALISTS
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PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
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MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
The clinic will attempt to contact the patient, if unsuccessful, the referring source will be notified of the missed appointment.
The clinic will attempt to contact the patient, if unsuccessful, the referring source will be notified of the missed appointment.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Friday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
   
 
ADDRESS
Robbins Pavillion
10240 Kingsway NW
Edmonton Alberta
T5H 3V9
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
 
DIRECTIONS
Please use main entrance to access clinic.
Please use main entrance to access clinic.
 
PHONE
780-735-4813
PATIENT RESOURCES
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Parking is available on site.
Parking is available on site.
 
EMAIL
WEBSITE
https://www.ahs.ca/info/page15513.aspx
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
PARKING MAP


 
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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