Carnat Centre Services

A day treatment program providing care to clients who have significantly impaired functioning requiring a higher degree and frequency of support than what a Level III Clinic can offer. Program provides psychosocial rehabilitation utilizing a skills building approach and is not specific to diagnosis. Services provided include:

• Time limited, goal focused, recovery-oriented psychosocial rehabilitation / skills training
• Clinical consultation, assessment, recommendations and follow up
• Individual Therapy (DBT, CBT, ART, Solution-focused, MI)
• Group Therapy
• Social Skills instruction, modelling and feedback
• Community resource orientation, introduction, and connection to resources
• Recreational therapy assessments and intervention
• Life skills, communication and emotional awareness training
• Case Management
• Medication management and education
• Clozapine / Depot Clinic
• Peer Support
• Independent Living Support (ILS)
• Psychoeducation
• Psychological Assessments
• Occupational Therapy assessments and intervention
• Psychiatric consultation and treatment
• Family support and education

Community Addiction and Mental Health Clinics

Services may include:

• intake assessment
• psychiatric consultation
• individual and or group therapy
• managing medication
• transition services (e.g. Independent Living Support)
• case management

Community Geriatric Mental Health Service

Services provided may include:

• assessment, treatment and follow-up
• caregiver support
• one-to-one and group treatment for seniors with mental health concerns (e.g. anxiety, depression, schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders)
• clinic and in-home service
• education for the client, caregiver, and community partners

The family doctor and other caregivers are involved in the assessment and treatment plan.

This service does not offer crisis intervention.

Day treatment Services: Group therapy, for individuals experiencing anxiety and depression, psychiatry consultation also available.

SUILL: Three phase group based therapy for individuals seeking group work for substance use. Psychiatry consultation also available.

Community Geriatric Mental Health Service - Psychiatric Consultation

Accessing this service has to specify request for psychiatric consultation when seeking one or more of the following:

• diagnositc clarification
• medication review
• recommendaiton for treatment / mangement of psychiatric symptoms

Referral may be considerd for pesons age 65-69 if requiring psychiatric consultation and also are challenged with age related (geriatric) frailty or diseases (ie: dementia, advanced parkinsons, advanced cardio vascular disease)

Community Pediatric Asthma Service

Non-urgent referrals for asthma education. In person or virtual education appointments for children and their families with mild to moderate asthma that includes a customized Asthma Action Plan for every patient. A breathing exercise (simple spirometry) for children 6 years of age and older will be scheduled as required.

Diabetes Centre - Endocrinology & Metabolism Program

Services provided:

• diabetes education / counselling with nurses, dietitians, or a pharmacist (topics include an overview of the disease, complications, medications, exercise, and nutrition)
• medication adjustment
• insulin pump therapy
• for information on the Alberta Insulin Pump Therapy Program (IPTP), visit the Diabetes Insulin Pump Therapy website
• pregnant with diabetes: refer to Diabetes in Pregnancy Clinic (DIP) at the hospital in which they’ll deliver
• referral to Diabetes Centre Calgary serves as indication to enact the Provincial Diabetes Medication Adjustment Protocol (HCS-296-01)

Diabetes in Pregnancy Clinic

Provides:

• teaching, counselling, and monitoring for pregnant women who have diabetes or have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes
• pre-pregnancy counselling and monitoring for women with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes who are thinking about getting pregnant

Hemodialysis - Alberta Kidney Care - South

Provides hemodialysis treatments (a process where the client's blood is passed through a special filter that removes waste products and water). Most people need 3 treatments every week. Each treatment lasts 4 hours.

Kidney Care Clinic - Alberta Kidney Care - South

This service helps people who have, or are at risk of getting, chronic kidney disease by:

• finding and treating kidney disease early in people who are at risk (people with hypertension, diabetes, or dyslipidemia)
• slowing down the disease in people who have chronic renal insufficiency

Nephrology Clinic

This service helps people who have, or are at risk of getting, chronic kidney disease by:

• finding and treating kidney disease early in people who are at risk (people with hypertension, diabetes, or dyslipidemia)
• slowing down the disease in people who have chronic renal insufficiency

Patient Information

Services offered:

• responding to patient location inquires
• providing direction on a patients whereabouts

Public Health Dental Clinics

This service provides:

• reduced-fee dental treatment services by general practitioner dentists to families in financial need and without access to dental insurance
• the dental services include: exams, X-rays, fluoride treatment, sealants, fillings, front tooth root canals, extractions, etc
• priority to emergency based treatments

The following services are NOT available:

• crowns
• bridges
• veneers
• full dentures
• orthodontics or braces
• molar root canals
• periodontal surgery
• partial dentures
• sedation dentistry
• complex or specialist services
• implants

For more information visit our website

Registration

Patient Registration registers:

• and pre-registers patients and collects demographic and financial information
• patients for inpatient admissions, ambulatory clinic appointment, and emergency department services

Switchboard

These services include:

• answering incoming telephone calls
• transferring telephone calls and
• giving out authorized telephone numbers

Vascular Access Clinic - Alberta Kidney Care - South

Access nurses work with a multidisciplinary team to assess a person's vascular access needs in acute and community clinics throughout southern Alberta.