Cardiac Diagnostics - Stress Testing   at
Northern Lights Regional Health Centre
Specialty: Cardiology
Connect Care Department: FMH NLRH CARDIOLOGY
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 3 months
Alberta Health Services - North Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Exercise Stress TestAn exercise stress test (or cardiac stress test) checks how your heart works during physical activity, usually by walking on a treadmill while hooked up to an EKG and blood pressure cuff, to diagnose coronary artery disease, find the cause of symptoms like chest pain, and determine safe exercise levels by monitoring your heart's response as the intensity increases. A Pediatric Holter monitor is a small, portable device that continuously records your heart's electrical activity (ECG) for 24 hours or more while you go about your daily routine, helping doctors diagnose irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias, palpitations), assess heart conditions, and check if medications are working. We do not perform pediatric stress tests at this site. We do not perform adult holters at this site.
Exercise Stress TestAn exercise stress test (or cardiac stress test) checks how your heart works during physical activity, usually by walking on a treadmill while hooked up to an EKG and blood pressure cuff, to diagnose coronary artery disease, find the cause of symptoms like chest pain, and determine safe exercise levels by monitoring your heart's response as the intensity increases. A Pediatric Holter monitor is a small, portable device that continuously records your heart's electrical activity (ECG) for 24 hours or more while you go about your daily routine, helping doctors diagnose irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias, palpitations), assess heart conditions, and check if medications are working. We do not perform pediatric stress tests at this site. We do not perform adult holters at this site.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
A doctor referral is needed
Patients with known or suspected heart conditions.
Holter monitor services is for pediatric only (we do not offer adult holter).
A doctor referral is needed
Patients with known or suspected heart conditions.
Holter monitor services is for pediatric only (we do not offer adult holter).
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 a consult letter and fax it directly to the specialists linked on the profile.
Urgent Referrals: Please indicate on referral form if this is to be considered an urgent referral.
Complete a consult letter and fax it directly to the specialists linked on the profile.
Urgent Referrals: Please indicate on referral form if this is to be considered an urgent referral.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
The department is procedural in nature.
Appointment requests should be submitted in Connect Care identifying the appropriate Connect Care treatment or procedure department.
We only accept urgent referrals from NLRH ER department.
The department is procedural in nature.
Appointment requests should be submitted in Connect Care identifying the appropriate Connect Care treatment or procedure department.
We only accept urgent referrals from NLRH ER department.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
Pediatric Holter Monitors
Pediatric Holter Monitors
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Acceptance via appointment details or wait list status letter to referring source and patient within 14 days.
  • Wait list status update every 14 days.
  • Appointment outcome to referral source within 30 days.
 
PHONE
780-793-8390
FAX
1-844-638-4217
REFERRAL PHONE
780-793-8390
REFERRAL FAX
1-844-638-4217
REFERRAL FORM
CLICK + TO VIEW REFERRAL GUIDELINES
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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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24 hr blood pressure monitoring
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Indicate history of clinical finding in subject on physician referral form
 
Current
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Exercise stress test
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Indicate history of clinical finding in subject on physician referral form
 
Current
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Holter monitor
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Indicate history of clinical finding in subject on physician referral form
 
Current
Pediatric Holter Monitor
24 hour, 48 hour and 72 hour monitoring
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Email
Print
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
If the patient is unable to attend the scheduled appointment, Refer to your appointment notification letter for the minimum required notice.
If the patient is unable to attend the scheduled appointment, Refer to your appointment notification letter for the minimum required notice.
 
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
Description:
Clinic booking dates vary based on specialist availability. Clinic closed on statutory holidays.
   
 
ADDRESS
7 Hospital Street
Fort McMurray Alberta
T9H 1P2
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
Refer to email received from NLRH Ambulatory Care Booking at time of scheduling
Refer to email received from NLRH Ambulatory Care Booking at time of scheduling
 
DIRECTIONS
NLRH is located at 7 Hospital street. Enter through main doors and proceed to the left of the public elevators. Register at the Ambulatory Care main desk.
NLRH is located at 7 Hospital street. Enter through main doors and proceed to the left of the public elevators. Register at the Ambulatory Care main desk.
 
PHONE
780-793-8390
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Hourly parking is available through AHS parking app (zone 6469) or at kiosk in main lobby and emergency entrance.
Hourly parking is available through AHS parking app (zone 6469) or at kiosk in main lobby and emergency entrance.
 
EMAIL
AmbulatoryCare.BookingOffice@albertahealthservices.ca
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Virtual appointments are not offered for this service
Virtual appointments are not offered for this service
 
 
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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