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Pediatric Videofluoroscopic Swallow Studies   at
Alberta Children's Hospital
Specialty: Pediatric Pulmonology
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 2 weeks
Alberta Health Services - Calgary Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Radiological assessment of children who have swallowing problems.This service provides care to children with swallowing problems. This may include swallowing issues associated with structural and motor disorders affecting the mouth, throat, airway, and/or suspected aspiration.
Radiological assessment of children who have swallowing problems.This service provides care to children with swallowing problems. This may include swallowing issues associated with structural and motor disorders affecting the mouth, throat, airway, and/or suspected aspiration.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
A recent clinical feeding & swallowing assessment by a feeding therapist (Occupational Therapist or Speech-Language Pathologist) is required prior to referral.

Outpatient referrals will be accepted from:
  • The child's primary care physician. Please note: primary care must be retained by the physician. This is not a physician-led clinic.
  • or the child's primary feeding therapist who may complete the referral on behalf of the primary care physician providing the physician is aware of the referral, has consented to the referral and primary care must be retained by the physician. This is not a physician-led clinic.
Child must be taking a minimum of 20ml at one time.

If child must be seated in a wheelchair for ALL meals, please include this information in the referral. 

Service is provided to:
  • children aged birth to 17;11 years of age with concerns related to swallowing, e.g. risk of aspiration (food or liquid enters the airway)
  • children with complex feeding / swallowing problems
A recent clinical feeding & swallowing assessment by a feeding therapist (Occupational Therapist or Speech-Language Pathologist) is required prior to referral.

Outpatient referrals will be accepted from:
  • The child's primary care physician. Please note: primary care must be retained by the physician. This is not a physician-led clinic.
  • or the child's primary feeding therapist who may complete the referral on behalf of the primary care physician providing the physician is aware of the referral, has consented to the referral and primary care must be retained by the physician. This is not a physician-led clinic.
Child must be taking a minimum of 20ml at one time.

If child must be seated in a wheelchair for ALL meals, please include this information in the referral. 

Service is provided to:
  • children aged birth to 17;11 years of age with concerns related to swallowing, e.g. risk of aspiration (food or liquid enters the airway)
  • children with complex feeding / swallowing problems
Referral instructions for primary care, community care, private
providers etc. who do not send referrals via Connect Care.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR NON-CONNECT CARE USERS
Complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
For urgent referrals please indicate so on referral.
Complete the referral form and fax it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
For urgent referrals please indicate so on referral.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
An Outgoing Referral is required for this service.
Change the referral class to “Outgoing Referral” on the Ambulatory Order and complete order.
Outgoing orders are not sent electronically and require processing in workqueue 5.
An Outgoing Referral is required for this service.
Change the referral class to “Outgoing Referral” on the Ambulatory Order and complete order.
Outgoing orders are not sent electronically and require processing in workqueue 5.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
Referrals are responded to within 2 business days. 
Assessments are given priority based on how urgent they are.
Once the referral is accepted, the family will be contacted to schedule an appointment.
Referrals are responded to within 2 business days. 
Assessments are given priority based on how urgent they are.
Once the referral is accepted, the family will be contacted to schedule an appointment.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Referral receipt to referring source within 5 days.
 
PHONE
403-955-7107
FAX
403-476-7756
REFERRAL PHONE
403-955-7107
REFERRAL FAX
403-476-7756
REFERRAL FORM
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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
Investigation Timing
Additional Details
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Swallowing
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Clinical examination
 
Within 1 month
Clinical evaluation of swallow must be completed by feeding therapist prior to referral.
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Urgent 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
Investigation Timing
Additional Details
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Swallowing
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Clinical examination
 
Within 1 month
Clinical evaluation of feeding must be completed by feeding therapist prior to referral for VFSS.
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
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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.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday:
Tuesday: 12:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
   
 
ADDRESS
28 Oki Drive NW
Calgary Alberta
T3B 6A8
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
 
DIRECTIONS
Main hospital entrance, proceed to Diagnostic Imaging on the main floor.

Located on the corner of 24 Avenue NW and West Campus Drive NW
Main hospital entrance, proceed to Diagnostic Imaging on the main floor.

Located on the corner of 24 Avenue NW and West Campus Drive NW
 
PHONE
403-955-7107
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Parking must be paid in advance of appointment.

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.
Parking must be paid in advance of appointment.

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.
 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

This facility is wheelchair accessible and has an elevator on site


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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
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  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.
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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.

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