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Calgary Sinus Centre   at
4723 1st SW
Specialty: Otolaryngology
Estimated time to routine appointment: Not Available
NON AHS
SERVICE DESCRIPTION
This specialized ENT service focuses on the diagnosis, medical management, and surgical treatment of complex nasal and sinus conditions.Clinic provides expert care for patients suffering from chronic rhinosinusitis, nasal polyps, and other sinonasal disorders that significantly impact quality of life and are often resistant to standard therapies.
This specialized ENT service focuses on the diagnosis, medical management, and surgical treatment of complex nasal and sinus conditions.Clinic provides expert care for patients suffering from chronic rhinosinusitis, nasal polyps, and other sinonasal disorders that significantly impact quality of life and are often resistant to standard therapies.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Exclusion Criteria:
  • Referrals for Rhinoplasty surgery
  • Patients with primary concern of headaches/facial pain. Send to neurology/TMJ for assessment.
  • General ENT concerns (i.e. tonsils, hearing concerns, headaches, etc.).
Exclusion Criteria:
  • Referrals for Rhinoplasty surgery
  • Patients with primary concern of headaches/facial pain. Send to neurology/TMJ for assessment.
  • General ENT concerns (i.e. tonsils, hearing concerns, headaches, etc.).
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 referral letter and fax it to the service using the contact information on this profile
Complete a referral letter and fax it to the service using the contact information on this profile
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 work queue 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 work queue 5.
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
  • Referral receipt to referring source within 1 days.
 
PHONE
403-270-8060
REFERRAL PHONE
403-270-8060
REFERRAL FAX
403-252-8244
REFERRAL FORM
Provide a written communication.
Provide a written communication.
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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Epistaxis
Include on all referrals:
  • Complete patient demographics
  • Complete list of medications
  • Allergies
  • Previous sinus therapies
 
N/A
  • CT Sinus
  • Failed nasal corticosteroid trial (4-6 weeks)
  • Nasal Irrigations qd-bid 4 to 6 weeks
 
N/A
  • We are unable to treat acute/ severe nose bleeds in the clinic, direct patient to the nearest ER.
  • Plain sinus X-ray should not be ordered for the assessment of nasal and sinus disease as they provide very limited anatomical detail and are quite inaccurate for the assessment of mucosal changes.
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Nasal obstruction
Include on all referrals:
  • Complete patient demographics
  • Complete list of medications
  • Allergies
  • Previous sinus therapies
 
N/A
  • CT Sinus
  • Failed nasal corticosteroid trial (4-6 weeks)
  • Nasal Irrigations qd-bid 4 to 6 weeks
 
N/A
  • Plain sinus X-ray should not be ordered for the assessment of nasal and sinus disease as they provide very limited anatomical detail and are quite inaccurate for the assessment of mucosal changes.
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Papilloma of nasal vestibule
Include on all referrals:
  • Complete patient demographics
  • Complete list of medications
  • Allergies
  • Previous sinus therapies
 
N/A
CT Sinus
 
N/A
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Rhinosinusitis
Include on all referrals:
  • Complete patient demographics
  • Complete list of medications
  • Allergies
  • Previous sinus therapies
 
N/A
  • CT Sinus
  • Failed nasal corticosteroid trial (4-6 weeks)
  • Nasal Irrigations qd-bid 4 to 6 weeks
 
N/A
Letter detailing symptoms of Chronic Sinusitis (i.e. nasal obstruction, altered sense of smell and taste, thickened rhinorrhea, etc.)
 
N/A
  • Please note that facial pain/headaches in the absence of sinonasal symptoms is not indicative of Chronic Rhinosinusitis.
  • Plain sinus X-ray should not be ordered for the assessment of nasal and sinus disease as they provide very limited anatomical detail and are quite inaccurate for the assessment of mucosal changes.
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
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MISSED APPOINTMENT GUIDELINES
Due to the high number of missed and no-show confirmed appointments, all missed and confirmed appointments will not be rebooked without re-referral.

Due to ever increasing waiting lists and requests for consultations, non-compliant patients will be discharged from the clinic.
Due to the high number of missed and no-show confirmed appointments, all missed and confirmed appointments will not be rebooked without re-referral.

Due to ever increasing waiting lists and requests for consultations, non-compliant patients will be discharged from the clinic.
 
HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday: 08:30 am - 03:00 pm
Tuesday: 08:30 am - 03:00 pm
Wednesday: 08:30 am - 03:00 pm
Thursday: 09:00 am - 03:00 pm
Friday: 08:30 am - 01:00 pm
   
 
ADDRESS
#350 4723 1st SW
Calgary Alberta
T2G 4Y8
PATIENT APPOINTMENT INSTRUCTIONS
  • New nasal and sinus patients, please complete the New Patient Questionnaire and Patient Symptoms Score. Use the link to access the forms New Patient Forms.
  • Please follow up with your primary care physician prior to contacting this office if you have not been seen by Dr. Mechor in the past 6 months.
Please feel free to contact the office when:
  • You have reviewed the website and cannot find the answer you are looking for.
  • You have recently had surgery and have the following symptoms:
    • thick nasal discharge that is foul smelling
    • heavy bleeding
    • severe headaches that do not respond to pain medications
    • nasal congestion that is not improving or worsening
  • You have the symptoms of an acute sinus infection including:
    • presence of cold for more than 7 days and is not improving with saline rinses, decongestants and nasal steroid sprays
    • thick and coloured nasal drainage
    • significant nasal congestion
    • pain in your upper teeth in the presence of a cold for more than 7 days
  • You are being treated by Dr. Mechor for nose bleeds and are experiencing recurrent or continued nose bleeds.
  • You have any questions or concerns about your treatment plan.
  • New nasal and sinus patients, please complete the New Patient Questionnaire and Patient Symptoms Score. Use the link to access the forms New Patient Forms.
  • Please follow up with your primary care physician prior to contacting this office if you have not been seen by Dr. Mechor in the past 6 months.
Please feel free to contact the office when:
  • You have reviewed the website and cannot find the answer you are looking for.
  • You have recently had surgery and have the following symptoms:
    • thick nasal discharge that is foul smelling
    • heavy bleeding
    • severe headaches that do not respond to pain medications
    • nasal congestion that is not improving or worsening
  • You have the symptoms of an acute sinus infection including:
    • presence of cold for more than 7 days and is not improving with saline rinses, decongestants and nasal steroid sprays
    • thick and coloured nasal drainage
    • significant nasal congestion
    • pain in your upper teeth in the presence of a cold for more than 7 days
  • You are being treated by Dr. Mechor for nose bleeds and are experiencing recurrent or continued nose bleeds.
  • You have any questions or concerns about your treatment plan.
 
DIRECTIONS
 
PHONE
403-270-8060
 
PARKING INSTRUCTIONS
Street parking is available
Street parking is available
 
EMAIL
calgarysinuscentre@gmail.com
WEBSITE
https://nosemd.ca/home
VIRTUAL APPOINTMENT INFORMATION
 
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WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY

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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