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Addiction and Mental Health - Neuromodulation   at
Medicine Hat Regional Hospital
Specialty: Addiction and Mental Health
Connect Care Department: MED MHRH AMH PSYC ECT
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 1 month
Alberta Health Services - South Zone
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Provides a specialized treatment typically for people living with depression and / or mood disorders where medication is not working or where they are too acute to wait for medication to have effect. The desired effect is the improvement in condition by applying physical and/or chemical stimulation.This program offers a specialized treatment for pediatric, adult, and geriatric populations with the goal of improving mood and personal function by applying physical and / or chemical stimulation. This is accomplished by inducing a seizure with physical stimulation to both inpatient and outpatient clients. The typical presentation of clients for Neuromodulation would be clients who are treatment resistant or who are not able to wait for medications to take effect based on acuity of symptoms. Although depression is a common presentation for treatment, we also treat those with other mental health concerns (schizophrenia, Mania, autism, etc).
Provides a specialized treatment typically for people living with depression and / or mood disorders where medication is not working or where they are too acute to wait for medication to have effect. The desired effect is the improvement in condition by applying physical and/or chemical stimulation.This program offers a specialized treatment for pediatric, adult, and geriatric populations with the goal of improving mood and personal function by applying physical and / or chemical stimulation. This is accomplished by inducing a seizure with physical stimulation to both inpatient and outpatient clients. The typical presentation of clients for Neuromodulation would be clients who are treatment resistant or who are not able to wait for medications to take effect based on acuity of symptoms. Although depression is a common presentation for treatment, we also treat those with other mental health concerns (schizophrenia, Mania, autism, etc).
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
  • Depressive episode including depression with psychotic features, treatment resistant depressive disorder, and other depressive disorders that are stabilized in the community with supports
  • A prolonged or severe manic episode
  • Unstable Bipolar Affective Disorder
  • Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia or Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder
  • Patients with a poor response or intolerance to medications and their side effects
  • Depressive episode including depression with psychotic features, treatment resistant depressive disorder, and other depressive disorders that are stabilized in the community with supports
  • A prolonged or severe manic episode
  • Unstable Bipolar Affective Disorder
  • Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia or Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder
  • Patients with a poor response or intolerance to medications and their side effects
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 [Attention: ECT Referral] or call the service using the contact information in this profile.
Complete the referral form and fax [Attention: ECT Referral] or call the service using the contact information in this profile.
REFERRAL PROCESS - FOR CONNECT CARE USERS
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Addiction and Mental Health, type MED MHRH AMH PSYC ECT in the “To Department” section and complete order.

Complete and upload MHRH ECT Checklist in Media Manager.
Urgent Referrals: Physician to physician communication required. Please indicate "urgent" on the referral.
Send an Internal Referral using the Ambulatory Referral Order to Addiction and Mental Health, type MED MHRH AMH PSYC ECT in the “To Department” section and complete order.

Complete and upload MHRH ECT Checklist in Media Manager.
Urgent Referrals: Physician to physician communication required. Please indicate "urgent" on the referral.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Referral receipt to referring source within 7 days.
  • Acceptance via appointment details or wait list status letter to referring source and patient within 10 days.
  • Appointment outcome to referral source within 14 days.
 
PHONE
403-529-8904
FAX
403-529-8070
REFERRAL PHONE
403-529-8904
REFERRAL FAX
403-529-8070
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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Electroconvulsive therapy
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Description, onset and duration of symptoms
 
Current
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
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MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
Please contact the service 48 hours in advance if you need to cancel or reschedule an appointment.
Please contact the service 48 hours in advance if you need to cancel or reschedule an appointment.
 
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
   
 
ADDRESS
666 5 Street SW
Medicine Hat Alberta
T1A 4H6
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
  • Bring your Alberta health care card and a piece of government issued photo ID.
  • Check in at reception 15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time.
  • You may bring a family member or significant other during your consultation.
  • Bring your Alberta health care card and a piece of government issued photo ID.
  • Check in at reception 15 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment time.
  • You may bring a family member or significant other during your consultation.
 
DIRECTIONS
Located on 5th Street in Medicine Hat.
ECT Coordinator Office Location: Room 2R054 Psychiatric Stabilization and Transition Services Clinic
Located on 5th Street in Medicine Hat.
ECT Coordinator Office Location: Room 2R054 Psychiatric Stabilization and Transition Services Clinic
 
PHONE
403-529-8904
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Paid parking is available on site.
Paid parking is available on site.
 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Virtual appointments are not available.
Virtual appointments are not available.
 
 
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY
Yes

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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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