1. No category

Division of General Internal Medicine
Triage
Category
Examples
(not all inclusive)
Process
Facilitators
Emergent
• Oxygen
Patients who may • IV Therapy
require admission • Antibiotic, etc.
Call 902-473-2220 and
ask to speak to the “Senior
Internist of the day”
Urgent
• Accelerated hypertension
Patients who are • Urgent pre-op
clinically unstable
assessments
• Heart failure
Semi-Urgent
• Acute inflammatory
process
• Routine surgical pre-ops
• Poorly controlled diabetes
Non-Urgent
• Diagnostic dilemmas
• Multiple system disease
• Hypertension
Fax referral to
902-473-8430
Immunology
Urgent /
Non-Urgent
Call or send referral to
Dr. Gina Lacuesta
Phone: 902-425-3927
Fax: 902-425-3928
• Referral note with any
relevant history, lab
data, discussion code
status, etc.
• Referral note with any
relevant history, lab
data, discussion code
status, etc.
• Referral note with any
relevant history, lab
data, discussion code
status, etc.
• Referral note with any
relevant history, lab
data, discussion code
status, etc.
Note: 1st available
physician appointments
can usually be
accommodated within
2 weeks. Physician
specific referrals can
wait 8 weeks.
• Referral note with any
relevant history, lab
data, discussion code
status, etc.
• Immunology
Fax referral to
902-473-8430
Fax referral to
902-473-8430
Standard
Wait Time
*Current
Wait Time
1 day
No data
14 days
7.6 days
4 weeks
3.3 weeks
8 weeks
9.0 weeks
< 7 days
Urgent
No data
8 weeks
Non-Urgent
No data
* As of September 30, 2014
Community based generalists are also available - see page 14
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Division of General Internal Medicine
General Internist
Special Interest
(All do General Medicine as well)
Dr. Paul Charlebois
Dr. Lori Connors
(Community based)
Allergy and Immunology
Dr. David Haase
Telephone #
Address
Fax #
902-721-7894
Specialist Services Clinic CF H
Services C(A)
PO Box 99000 Stn Forces
Halifax, NS B3K 5X5
Halifax Allergy and Asthma
Associates Box 106
503-5657 Spring Garden Road,
Park Lane Mall
Halifax, NS B3J 3R4
Room 404 Bethune Bldg., VG Site,
QEII HSC, 1276 South Park Street,
Halifax, NS B3H 2Y9
Room 439, Bethune Bldg. VG Site,
QEII HSC 1276 South Park Street,
Halifax, NS B3H 2Y9
Room 436, Bethune Bldg. VG Site,
QEII HSC 1276 South Park Street,
Halifax, NS B3H 2Y9
Room 2203, Dartmouth General
Hospital, 325 Pleasant St.,
Dartmouth, NS B2Y 4G8
Room 406 Bethune Bldg., VG Site,
QEII HSC, 1276 South Park Street,
Halifax, NS B3H 2Y9
902-721-0356
Room 376 Bethune Bldg, VG Site
1276 South Park Street
Halifax, NS B3H 2Y9
Room 405 Bethune Bldg., VG Site,
QEII HSC, 1276 South Park Street,
Halifax, NS B3H 2Y9
Room 410 Bethune Bldg., VG Site,
QEII HSC, 1276 South Park Street,
Halifax, NS B3H 2Y9
Aberdeen Regional Hospital
835 East River Rd.
New Glasgow, NS B2H 3S6
Room 404 Bethune Bldg., VG Site,
QEII HSC, 1276 South Park Street,
Halifax, NS B3H 2Y9
Dartmouth General Hospital,
Internal Medicine 325 Pleasant St.,
Dartmouth, NS B2Y 4G8
Room 406 Bethune Bldg., VG Site,
QEII HSC, 1276 South Park Street,
Halifax, NS B3H 2Y9
Room 2211, Dartmouth General
Hospital, 325 Pleasant St.,
Dartmouth, NS B2Y 4G8
902-473-8430
902-425-3927
902-473-2156
Dr. Babar Haroon
Critical Care
902-473-2156
Dr. Anne Marie
Krueger-Naug
Palliative Medicine
902-473-7788
Dr. Jorin LindenSmith Allergy and Immunology
902-460-4152
Dr. David Manning
902-473-7788
Dr. Sarah McMullen
Hyperbaric Medicine,
Tropical Diseases,
Respirology,
Hypertension
Critical Care
Dr. Masha Nejad
Dr. Rosario Rebello
902-473-3608
902-473-7788
Cardiology,
Hypertension
902-473-7788
Dr. Raid Shaarbaf
902-752-2413
Dr. C. David Simpson
902-473-2156
Dr. Colin van Zoost
(Community based)
902-460-4152
Dr. Stephen Workman
902-473-3961
Dr. Khawar Zaman
902-460-4152
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902-425-3928
902-473-8430
902-473-8430
902-473-8430
902-460-4154
902-473-8430
902-473-8430
902-473-8430
902-752-2590
902-473-8430
902-460-4154
902-473-8430
902-460-4154