Interventional Radiography / Angiography   at
Grey Nuns Community Hospital
Specialty: Radiology
Estimated time to routine appointment: Within 2 weeks
Alberta Health Services - Provincial Health Services
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
Interventional Radiography uses image-guided procedures to diagnose and treat disease. Angiography takes pictures of the blood flow in specific blood vessels or the heart.Interventional Radiography is a sub-specialty of Diagnostic Imaging (radiology) that uses image-guided procedures for both therapeutic and diagnostic Purposes. Interventional radiography can be done using x-ray, CT, Ultrasound or MRI images and are done to diagnose and treat disease in almost every organ system.

Angiography, which is a diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a radio-opaque dye and a specialized x-ray camera to take pictures of the blood flow in specific blood vessels (arteries or veins) or blood flow within the heart itself. Sometimes treatments are done during an angiogram.
Interventional Radiography uses image-guided procedures to diagnose and treat disease. Angiography takes pictures of the blood flow in specific blood vessels or the heart.Interventional Radiography is a sub-specialty of Diagnostic Imaging (radiology) that uses image-guided procedures for both therapeutic and diagnostic Purposes. Interventional radiography can be done using x-ray, CT, Ultrasound or MRI images and are done to diagnose and treat disease in almost every organ system.

Angiography, which is a diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a radio-opaque dye and a specialized x-ray camera to take pictures of the blood flow in specific blood vessels (arteries or veins) or blood flow within the heart itself. Sometimes treatments are done during an angiogram.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Any Advanced Illness whereby the patient and/loved ones, close relatives and friends require grief counselling support. 
Children who 'perceive' an impending death are eligible for counselling.
 
Companion Program: Patient and/or caregiver living with an advanced illness at home or in a facility and experiencing the related loneliness and social exclusion who would benefit from weekly volunteer visits for companionship and to assist with projects, small tasks.
Any Advanced Illness whereby the patient and/loved ones, close relatives and friends require grief counselling support. 
Children who 'perceive' an impending death are eligible for counselling.
 
Companion Program: Patient and/or caregiver living with an advanced illness at home or in a facility and experiencing the related loneliness and social exclusion who would benefit from weekly volunteer visits for companionship and to assist with projects, small tasks.
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 or call the service using the contact information in this profile.
For urgent referrals call the service.
Complete the referral form and fax it to or call the service using the contact information in this profile.
For urgent referrals call the service.
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.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Referral receipt to referring source within 5 days.
  • Acceptance via appointment details or wait list status letter to referring source and patient within 14 days.
 
PHONE
780-735-7142
FAX
780-735-7065
REFERRAL PHONE
403-263-4525
REFERRAL FAX
403-263-4524
LINKED SPECIALISTS
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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Illness
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Advanced illness within family and expressed request for counselling support
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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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Terminal illness - late stage
Medication List (dose, frequency, route)
 
Within 1 month
Past medical history
 
Within 1 month
Approaching end-of-life and individual/loved ones/ family require support coming to terms. 
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Emergent Reason for Referral
Additional Details
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Terminal illness
Confirmation of a life-threatening illness - Family counsellors may work with schools to further support the child(ren). Counsellors available as consultants for acute and community care. Would attend family meetings. 
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Email
Print
 
MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
Referral 'may' be closed after 3 no shows. Extenuating circumstances (eg. illness advaning) considered.
Referral 'may' be closed after 3 no shows. Extenuating circumstances (eg. illness advaning) considered.
 
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
Description:
Open Weekdays for regular outpatient and inpatient bookings. Emergency procedures available 24/7
   
 
ADDRESS
Main Floor
1100 Youville Drive NW
Edmonton Alberta
T6L 5X8
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
 
DIRECTIONS
Living with Advanced Illness Center is co-located with the Children's Grief Centre in a stand alone building across from Trial Appliances in the SE.
Living with Advanced Illness Center is co-located with the Children's Grief Centre in a stand alone building across from Trial Appliances in the SE.
 
PHONE
780-735-7142
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Free parking in the front.
Free parking in the front.
 
EMAIL
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
Online and phone counselling available if deemed appropriate by counsellor and most suitable for patient.
Online and phone counselling available if deemed appropriate by counsellor and most suitable for patient.
 
PARKING MAP
 
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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