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Vascular Surgery Centralized Access - Facilitated Access to Specialized Treatment (FAST)   at
South Zone and Area
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Specialty: Vascular Surgery
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 1 month
Alberta Health Services - South Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
FAST (Facilitated Access to Specialized Treatment) is a central access and intake program for surgical referrals.Referrals for Vascular Surgery in South Zone are accepted through this Facilitated Access to Specialized Treatment (FAST) central access and intake program. Referring providers can choose a next-available surgeon with the shortest waitlist; a specific surgeon, clinic, or site; or an out-of-zone provider. FAST receives surgical referrals, reviews them for completeness and duplication, and sends them to appropriate surgeons for triage and booking. For more information, go to ahs.ca/FAST.
FAST (Facilitated Access to Specialized Treatment) is a central access and intake program for surgical referrals.Referrals for Vascular Surgery in South Zone are accepted through this Facilitated Access to Specialized Treatment (FAST) central access and intake program. Referring providers can choose a next-available surgeon with the shortest waitlist; a specific surgeon, clinic, or site; or an out-of-zone provider. FAST receives surgical referrals, reviews them for completeness and duplication, and sends them to appropriate surgeons for triage and booking. For more information, go to ahs.ca/FAST.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
  • Audiology services are available for children, youth and adults.
  • Children's Allied Health (Speech Language Pathology, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy) services are typically available for clients at birth up to 18 years of age.
  • Speech Language Pathology services are available for children, youth and adults.
  • Audiology services are available for children, youth and adults.
  • Children's Allied Health (Speech Language Pathology, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy) services are typically available for clients at birth up to 18 years of age.
  • Speech Language Pathology services are available for children, youth and adults.
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 send it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
Referrals can also be made by telephone.
Please indicate on the completed referral form if this is to be considered urgent.
Complete the referral form and send it to the service using the contact information in this profile.
Referrals can also be made by telephone.
Please indicate on the completed referral form if this is to be considered urgent.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Pediatric Rehabilitation, type South Zone East CHILD AH CAT in the “To Department” section and complete order.
Please indicate if the referral is deemed urgent.
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Pediatric Rehabilitation, type South Zone East CHILD AH CAT in the “To Department” section and complete order.
Please indicate if the referral is deemed urgent.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR SELF-REFERRAL
Self-referral is also accepted by calling the clinic using the contact information on this page.
Self-referral is also accepted by calling the clinic using the contact information on this page.
ADDITIONAL SERVICE DETAILS
Services may be provided in homes, schools, preschools and community health sites/hospitals.
Behavioural Services:
  • Sleep Education: information and supports to prevent sleep deprivation and develop healthy sleeping habits in children
  • Behavioural consultation services for parents
  • Open referral for families with children aged 7 years and under
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) assessment team:
  • Through a contract with Bridges family services, the team provides coordination and scheduling for OT and SLP assessments for the FASD clinic in Medicine Hat.
Services may be provided in homes, schools, preschools and community health sites/hospitals.
Behavioural Services:
  • Sleep Education: information and supports to prevent sleep deprivation and develop healthy sleeping habits in children
  • Behavioural consultation services for parents
  • Open referral for families with children aged 7 years and under
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) assessment team:
  • Through a contract with Bridges family services, the team provides coordination and scheduling for OT and SLP assessments for the FASD clinic in Medicine Hat.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Referral receipt to referring source within 7 days.
 
PHONE
1-833-553-3278 Ext. 5
FAX
1-833-627-7024
REFERRAL PHONE
403-529-8966
REFERRAL FAX
403-529-8859
REFERRAL FORM
LINKED SPECIALISTS
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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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Audiological evaluation
Description of concern
 
Current
Hearing (responding to sounds, noise, voices and/or words)
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Occupational therapy
Description of concern
 
Current
  • Equipment needs (wheelchair, walking aides, adaptive aides)
  • Feeding and swallowing (coughing, gagging, choking, refusing to eat certain foods)
  • Physical symptoms (sensitivity to noise, clothing or touch)
  • Recreation or Leisure activities
  • Taking care of self, completing daily activities or routines (dressing, feeding, toileting, doing chores)
  • Using hands (playing with toys, printing or writing)
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Physiotherapy
Description of concern
 
Current
  • Moving (sitting, crawling, getting around or walking, in-toeing, coordination, balance)
  • Participating in sports, Recreation or Leisure activities
  • Equipment needs (wheelchair, walking aides, adaptive aides)
  • Physical symptoms (pain, muscle/joint tightness, head shape)
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Speech and language disorder
Description of concern
 
Current
Pediatric speech language pathology service
  • Clear speech (being understood by others, stuttering, unusual sounding voice)
  • Communication (understanding directions, interacting with others, babbling, using words, using sentences)
  • Feeding and swallowing (coughing, gagging, choking, refusing to eat certain foods)
  • Socializing (playing with friends or peers, social skills)
  • Speech Language Pathology
  • Thinking and learning (problem solving, following directions)
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
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HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 7:30 am - 3:45 pm
Tuesday: 7:30 am - 3:45 pm
Wednesday: 7:30 am - 3:45 pm
Thursday: 7:30 am - 3:45 pm
Friday: 7:30 am - 3:45 pm
   
 
ADDRESS

T1K 6T5
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
 
DIRECTIONS
 
PHONE
1-833-553-3278 Ext. 5
PATIENT RESOURCES
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
 
EMAIL
WEBSITE
https://www.ahs.ca/fast
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
PARKING MAP
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
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  • Brown means the healthcare service@location never had referral information attached to it, or it has unpublished referral information.
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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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