Nutrition Counselling - Adult and Pediatric   at
Melcor Centre

Alberta Health Services - South 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.
By completing a comprehensive nutrition assessment and developing a nutrition intervention in collaboration with the client using evidence based guidelines. The dietitian provides nutrition counselling to help clients make diet, behavioural and lifestyle changes to manage a medical condition and / or improve their health. Nutrition counselling may occur on an individual basis or in a group session. Nutrition information and resources can be found on Alberta health Services’ Healthy Eating Starts
Additional Services:
Visit the PEAS (Pediatric Eating and Swallowing) website to find relevant information for families and care providers of children with an eating, feeding and swallowing disorder.
EMERGENCY REFERRAL PROCESS
Please direct patients to the nearest Emergency Department or Urgent Care Facility.
Please direct patients to the nearest Emergency Department or Urgent Care Facility.
URGENT REFERRAL PROCESS
Please direct patients to the nearest Emergency Department or Urgent Care Facility.
Please direct patients to the nearest Emergency Department or Urgent Care Facility.
ROUTINE REFERRAL PROCESS
A Health Professional referral and Self referrals are accepted.
A Health Professional referral and Self referrals are accepted.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS


REFERRAL FORM
South East (Medicine Hat and Brooks)  Referral Form
South West (Lethbridge and Rural) Referral Form
South East (Medicine Hat and Brooks)  Referral Form
South West (Lethbridge and Rural) Referral Form
REFERRAL PHONE
403-388-6654
REFERRAL FAX
403-317-0435
PHONE
403-388-6654
TOLL FREE PHONE
1-866-506-6654
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
Eating disorder
Past medical history
| Within 6 months

Current medications list
| Within 6 months
Request current Eating Disorder referral form from program directly by contacting 403-388-6654.

Nutrition education
Past medical history
| Within 6 months

Current medications list
| Within 6 months

Weight management program
Past medical history
| Within 6 months

Current medications list
| Within 6 months
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
Program office hours vary by site.
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 a client is unable to attend a scheduled appointment please contact the clinic with at least 48 hours notice. If there is a pattern of inconsistent attendance at scheduled appointments, the therapist will discuss the barriers to attendance with the client/parent to determine next steps.
If the client misses a scheduled appointment, it is his/her responsibility to schedule another appointment.
If a client is unable to attend a scheduled appointment please contact the clinic with at least 48 hours notice. If there is a pattern of inconsistent attendance at scheduled appointments, the therapist will discuss the barriers to attendance with the client/parent to determine next steps.
If the client misses a scheduled appointment, it is his/her responsibility to schedule another appointment.
DIRECTIONS
4 Ave S and 5 St S.
4 Ave S and 5 St S.
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
There is currently no parking information available for this site.
There is currently no parking information available for this site.
PARKING MAP
There is currently no parking map available for this site.
There is currently no parking map available for this site.
ADDRESS
200 4 Avenue S
Lethbridge Alberta
T1J 4C9
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


Description:
Call for information 8:00-4:00 Mon-Fri; availability of dietitian appointments vary.
   
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

Melcor Centre has elevators and ramps.


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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