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Operates as a program under the Healing and Wellness Branch

• Provides information, advocacy and support to assist individuals to remain in their homes as long as possible
• Acts as respite for informal caregivers such as extended family

Community Support Services offered include:

• Caregiver support
• Case management
• Friendly visiting
• Service arrangement and coordination
• Transportation for medical appointments within Fort Frances and/or assistance with medical appointment arrangements
• Visiting for social and safety reasons, either in person or on the phone

Formerly Community Care Access Centre

Access to health care support at home or in the community

• Assists clients to plan and make informed choices about managing their health care needs or those of someone they care for
• Coordinates information about other services available within the community and links them with these services when appropriate
• Determines access to health care services provided in the home
• Determines admission to Long Term Care Facilities (homes for the aged, nursing homes)
• Determines access to health support services provided in schools for children with special needs
• Maintains an ongoing waiting list

Provides assisted living services to enable seniors to live independently in their own home

Offers the following services based upon the development of an individualized care plan:

• Provides assistance with light housekeeping and laundry
• Aids with meal preparation
• Assists with personal care
• Provides medication reminders and monitoring
• Assists with arranging appointments for medical and other services
• Assists clients with arrangements for rental contract and installation of lifeline equipment that enables them to obtain 24-hour emergency assistance

Provides community health services in the following areas:

• Communicable disease emergencies
• Harm reduction strategies such as safe needle use and education about Naloxone kits
• Health education and support including smoking cessation, healthy eating and physical activity
• Healthy pregnancy, child development and nutrition
• Immunizations
• Outbreak management
• Surveillance
• Tuberculosis

Milk Coupon Program

• Provides up to 4 litres of milk per week for eligible community members
• Strives to improve the health of pregnant women and young children

Provides a variety of in-home health care services

Home Support

• Acquired Brain Injury
• Companion Aide
• Dementia Care
• Homemaking
• Palliative Care
• Personal Care

Respite

• Respite Care

Nursing

• Acute care post hospitalization
• Chronic disease management
• Foot care
• Intravenous Care
• Mental Health
• Palliative Care
• Pediatric
• School Health
• Wound Care

Provides health care services for ill, injured or elderly community members in their own homes

Provides the following services through a Case Manager/Nurses, Personal Support Workers and Homemakers:

• Assessment to determine individuals health history and develop a personalized care plan
• Case management to ensure that care plans are being carried out and that the plan developed is still suitable
• Service coordination with other agencies if required
• Home care nursing duties
• Access to medical supplies and equipment
• Personal care help with activities such as dressing, toileting, eating, mobility and bathing
• Teaching the individual in need to care for themselves
• Home support with light housekeeping, laundry and meal preparation
• Respite for family members and caregivers
• Help with light outdoor/yardwork including lawn mowing and wood chopping

• Provides assistance with light indoor housework and laundry
• Aids with meal preparation
• Assists with personal care
• Provides minor household repairs
• Offers respite care for any reason

Lifeline Emergency Response System

• Assists clients with arrangements for rental contract and installation of lifeline equipment
• Equipment enables clients to obtain 24 hour emergency assistance

NOTE: Homemaking does not include shovelling and yardwork

Provides information, advocacy and support to assist individuals who are living alone to remain in their homes as long as possible

• Offers services of Home Makers for assistance with indoor chores and Home Support staff for assistance with outdoor work
• Assists elders and families that have members with disabilities in their residence with routine household activities such as light housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation and personal care
• Provides assistance with heavy and seasonal housecleaning, gathering firewood and water and winter shovelling or other yardwork and small home repairs
• Provides return transportation for medical appointments in Fort Frances
• Acts as a social support for isolated or ill individuals

Formerly Community Care Access Centre

Access to health care support at home or in the community

• Assists clients to plan and make informed choices about managing their health care needs or those of someone they care for
• Coordinates information about other services available within the community and links them with these services when appropriate
• Determines access to health care services provided in the home
• Determines admission to Long Term Care Facilities (homes for the aged, nursing homes)
• Determines access to health support services provided in schools for children with special needs
• Maintains an ongoing waiting list

Provides health care services for ill, injured or elderly community members in their own homes and living at the Mino' Giizhigad Elders Centre

Provides the following services through personal support workers, homemakers and home support worker:

• Assessment to determine individuals health history and develop a personalized care plan
• Case management to ensure that care plans are being carried out and that the plan developed is still suitable
• Home care nursing duties
• Personal care help with activities such as dressing and bathing
• Basic or advanced practice foot care
• Teaching the individual in need to care for themselves
• Home support with light housekeeping, laundry and meal preparation
• Respite for family members and caregivers
• Help with light outdoor/yardwork