Nutrition Counselling - Pediatric   at
Alberta Children's Hospital
Connect Care Specialty: Nutrition Connect Care Department: CGY ACH PED NUTRITION
Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone





Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 1 month
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
A registered dietitian, specializing in clinical pediatrics, develops a comprehensive nutrition care plan together with clients and provides follow up.
Services provided for:
  • optimizing growth
  • allergy and food intolerances
  • iron deficiency anemia
  • inappropriate diets for age
  • eating and feeding difficulties
  • nutrient deficiencies secondary to restricted diets
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
Referrals are triaged and urgency assigned by Registered Dietician.
Please indicate urgent on referral form
Referrals are triaged and urgency assigned by Registered Dietician.
Please indicate urgent on referral form
ROUTINE REFERRAL PROCESS
Fax completed referral form. Please write down everything your child eats and drinks for 3 days and bring this record to your appointment with the dietitian.

PLEASE NOTE: A growth chart is required with ALL referrals.

For clients with the following concerns, contact the corresponding program/service below:
  • General Infant Nutrition & Feeding;
    • Health Link @ 811
  • 0 - 12 Months General Infant Nutrition & Feeding;
  • 1 - 5 Years Toddler Nutrition & Feeding Challenges;
  • Weight Management - Pediatric Services;
Fax completed referral form. Please write down everything your child eats and drinks for 3 days and bring this record to your appointment with the dietitian.

PLEASE NOTE: A growth chart is required with ALL referrals.

For clients with the following concerns, contact the corresponding program/service below:
  • General Infant Nutrition & Feeding;
    • Health Link @ 811
  • 0 - 12 Months General Infant Nutrition & Feeding;
  • 1 - 5 Years Toddler Nutrition & Feeding Challenges;
  • Weight Management - Pediatric Services;
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
18 years and younger
18 years and younger
REFERRAL PHONE
403-955-7294
REFERRAL FAX
403-476-9621
PHONE
403-955-7294
FAX
403-476-9621
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
Nutritional education
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
| Within 1 month

Past medical history
| Within 1 month

BMI-for-age Percentile (2 - 17 years)
| If applicable

Weight-for-length Percentile (birth - 24 months)
| If applicable

Height/Length (cm)
| Current

Indicate any limitations (physical/learning/language)
| Current

Growth chart
| Current

BMI
| Current

Weight (kg)
| Current

Describe any;*food allergy(ies) or intolerance impacting diet adequacy*iron deficiency anemia*inappropriate diet for age (e.g. delayed texture progression)*feeding difficulties/caregiver education*restricted diet resulting in nutrient deficiencies (e.g. vegan, picky eating)
| Current

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

Past medical history
| Within 1 month

BMI-for-age Percentile (2 - 17 years)
| If applicable

Weight-for-length Percentile (birth - 24 months)
| If applicable

Height/Length (cm)
| Current

Indicate any limitations (physical/learning/language)
| Current

Growth chart
| Current

BMI
| Current

Weight (kg)
| Current

Indicate if;*downward shift in growth pattern (e.g. sharp decline, movement across percentiles nearing the 3rd percentile or growth line is flat)*below 3rd percentile Weight-for-length (birth - 24 months)*below 3rd percentile BMI-for-age Percentile (2 - 17 years)
| Current

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

Past medical history
| Within 1 month

BMI-for-age Percentile (2 - 17 years)
| If applicable

Weight-for-length Percentile (birth - 24 months)
| If applicable

Height/Length (cm)
| Current

Indicate any limitations (physical/learning/language)
| Current

Growth chart
| Current

BMI
| Current

Weight (kg)
| Current

Indicate if;*upward shift in growth pattern (e.g. sharp incline or movement across percentiles or nearing 85th percentile BMI-for-age/weight for length on the WHO Set 2 Growth Chart. On CPEG Growth Chart nearing the 90th percentile weight for length.)*above 85th percentile Weight-for-length on WHO Set 2 Growth Chart or 90th percentile on CPEG Growth Chart (birth - 24 months)
| Current
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 30 calendar days.
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
Missed appointments are minimized by requiring a re-referral after two missed appointments. (ACH Outpatient Principle in Practice, 6.8)
Missed appointments are minimized by requiring a re-referral after two missed appointments. (ACH Outpatient Principle in Practice, 6.8)
DIRECTIONS
Located on the corner of 24 Avenue NW and West Campus Drive NW 
Located on the corner of 24 Avenue NW and West Campus Drive NW 
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.
Paystations accept Canadian coins, Canadian bills or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, and American Express).
Parking Office and Kiosk accept 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.
Paystations accept Canadian coins, Canadian bills or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, and American Express).
Parking Office and Kiosk accept payment by cash, credit card, debit or cheque.
ADDRESS
28 Oki Drive NW
Calgary Alberta
T3B 6A8
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
   
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

Main entrance

Lifts accessible onsite


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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