Searching for Community Health Centres And Family Health Teams

• Delivers customized health care, health promotion, and health treatment services to First Nations people and communities
• Operates a pharmacy that supplies medicine and pharmaceutical services
• Offers a walk-in clinic open to the general public

Nurse Practitioner-led medical clinic

• Nurse practitioners (NP) are registered nurses with advanced university education who provide personalized, quality health care to patients
• Works in partnership with Nurses, Registered Practical Nurses, Dietitians, Social Workers and collaboratively with Physicians

Offers a variety of health care services including:

• counselling and education
• diagnosing and treating illness and/or injuries
• ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests
• performing physical check-ups
• referrals to family physicians, specialists and other health professionals
• supportive care through illness
• treatments and/or procedures
• writing prescriptions

Provides a walk-in clinic for registered patients

• Offers timely access to primary care
• Provides access to other health care professionals within and outside of the Family Health Team
• Coordinates documentation if patient receives care from a member of the team

Offers primary health care including but not limited to:

• Chronic disease education and prevention
• Disease management
• Health promotion
• Mental health assessment
• Palliative care
• Rehabilitation

Telephone Health Advisory Service

• Provides access to a registered nurse that provides advice about urgent health care concerns for rostered patients
• Offers the opportunity to have family doctor receive a written summary of the call

• Provides a variety of clinical services administered by a team of family physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, foot care nurses, and a dietitian
• Offers medical care and regular check-ups for patients of the clinic
• Operates a walk-in clinic for issues such as coughs and cold, fever, earaches, infections, HIV testing, pregnancy test, sexual health, and birth control
• Offers Telemedicine Services (OTN)
• Provides referrals to other community services and programs

Cervical Cancer Screening

• Provides cervical cancer screening (HPV testing)

• Provides services and supports for individuals who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ)
• Offers peer support and skills building groups
• Counsels individuals, their partners, and family members
• Offers the Queer Drop-In group

Offers various clinical services, including:

• Sexual health and screening
• Medical support for transition process
• Gender affirming care to support the physical, mental, and social well-being of transgender and gender-diverse individuals
• Transfrienders support group to support gender identity exploration
• Education and information
• Telemedicine services

• Operates as a community-based organization offering primary health care and health promotion programs in areas within the district
• Provides a Primary Care Team comprised of physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, footcare nurses and therapists
• Offers Telemedicine services
• Operates outreach programs at Shelter House, Limbrick and Assef Court
• Operates a Mobile health unit serving communities in the district as well as a Diabetes Mobile unit
• Offers a walk-in clinic

College community medical clinic

• Offers regular physician clinics during the academic year
• Encourages individuals to continue to see their family physician for continuity of care

Provides primary health care services including the following:

• Advisement regarding health requirements for special programs
• Birth control and free condoms
• Episodic illness and chronic medical conditions
• Health counselling on issues such as nutrition, birth control, sexuality, anxiety, stress management, depression
• Health supervision for special conditions such as asthma, diabetes, hypertension, epilepsy
• Literature on health issues
• Wart treatment
• Massage therapy
• Physicals such as annual, 3rd party, ministry of transport, aviation
• Referrals to other physicians or agencies as required
• Sexually transmitted disease screening and treatment
• Student supplementary insurance information and claims
• TB (Tuberculosis) Skin testing
• Wellness examinations

• Offers timely access to high quality primary care
• Provides access/referrals to other health care professionals within and outside of the Family Health Clinic
• Coordinates documentation if patient receives care from a member of the team
• Provides a Walk-in Clinic

• Chronic disease management
• Health promotion
• Disease prevention

• Provides support services for seniors, individuals with critical or long-term illness, and persons with health barriers such as a disability
• Provides speech and language services support to children attending schools on-reserve

• Adult life enrichment and recreation
• Basic foot care
• Homemaking including assistance with meals and cleaning
• Palliative support
• Personal care including bathing, washing and dressing
• Respite care
• Transportation to medical appointments or errands

• Provides a range of responsive individual, family and community programs and services for the complete life journey of all Anishinabek people
• Cares for the physical health, mental health, and the health of the communities where Anishinabek people live by promoting wellness, preventing illness and trauma, and providing diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation

• Child Welfare Services
• Cultural Programs and Services
• Health Services, also under Dilico Family Health Team Clinic
• Mental Health and Addiction Services including walk-in clinics

• Provides a range of responsive individual, family and community programs and services for the complete life journey of all Anishinabek people
• Cares for the physical health, mental health, and the health of the communities where Anishinabek people live by promoting wellness, preventing illness and trauma, and providing diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation

• Child welfare services
• Community health services
• Cultural programs and services
• Mental health and addiction services including walk-in clinics

• Provides primary care medical clinic
• Provides access to other health care professionals
• Provides tuberculosis (TB) skin testing for employment or academic placement requirements
• Offers clinics in the following areas: footcare, diabetes, lifestyle, COPD, smoking cessation, chronic pain management, well-baby and annual breast screening

• Health promotion
• Health education
• Illness prevention
• Disease diagnosis
• Management and rehabilitation

• Coordinates health care services through Community Health Nurse, Community Health Representative, Clerk and Diabetes worker as well as other professionals
• Provides health awareness and counselling, education and prevention workshops
• Coordinates clinics/workshops in areas that may include Immunization, Sexual Health, Smoking Cessation and Communicable Diseases
• Administers a Safe Needle Exchange program and functions as the safe needle exchange and safe inhalation kit pick-up and drop-off site

• Intake services to determine health care needs of individual
• Referrals to appropriate health care providers based on information in the intake assessment
• Advocacy and support on behalf of individual with other health professionals
• Coordination of one-on-one pre-natal care with the community health nurse
• Home visits to the sick, elderly, new mothers and persons with health care needs
• Assistance with coordinating local and long distance travel arrangements for medical appointments

• Annual Health Fair
• Children's Christmas celebration and 55+ Christmas celebration
• Community bazaars
• Family picnic
• Family walk
• Good Food Box program
• Halloween Drop-in
• NIIBIN Day Camp

• Coordinates health care services through a health team which consists of Community Health Representative, Community Wellness Worker and a Family Support Worker, visiting Physicians and Crisis Team workers
• Provides health awareness and counselling, education and prevention workshops/clinics in areas that may include Child Care, Diabetes, Elderly & Chronic Disease, Immunization, Sexual Health and Communicable Diseases
• Coordinates basic foot care clinics
• Identifies and attempts to correct health hazards

• Intake services to determine health care needs of individual
• Treatment of on-going health problems
• Referrals to appropriate health care providers based on information in the intake assessment
• Advocacy on behalf of individual with other health professionals
• Coordination of one-on-one pre-natal care with the community health nurse
• Home visits to the sick, elderly, new mothers and persons with health care needs
• Assistance with coordinating local and long distance travel arrangements for medical appointments

• Offers timely access to high quality primary care
• Provides access/referrals to other health care professionals within and outside of the Medical Associates and Family Health Team
• Coordinates documentation if patient receives care from a member of the team
• Provides a Walk-in clinic

• Chronic disease management
• Health promotion
• Disease prevention

Offers services of various medical professionals including the following:

• Family Practice
• Foot Nurse Clinic
• Golf Links Chiropractic
• General Surgery, Advanced Laparoscopic, and Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine
• Lakehead Physiotherapy
• Neurosurgeon, Spine and Lumbar
• Plastic Surgery

University health clinic

Provides holistic, evidence-informed health and wellness services to meet the diverse needs of the student population

Health Services: Offers convenient, confidential and comprehensive medical care to Lakehead University students

Mental Health Services: Counselling at Student Health and Wellness is a free, short-term, client-centred, non-judgmental service

• Licensed/registered, professionally-trained counsellors provide one-to-one counselling to students and help them address their needs
• Students can also explore other support options through the WellU Key (https://lakehead.portal.gs/)

• Provides timely access to family and community primary health care
• Provides access to other health care professionals within and outside of the Family Health Team
• Coordinates documentation if patient receives care from a member of the team
• Administers various health programs

• Chronic disease education and prevention
• Disease management
• Health promotion
• Mental health assessment
• Palliative care
• Rehabilitation

• Provides access to a registered nurse that provides advice about urgent health care concerns
• Offers the opportunity to have family doctor receive a written summary of the call

• Offers timely access to primary care
• Provides access to other health care professionals
• Coordinates documentation if patient receives care from a member of the team
• Provides a sexual health clinic that includes testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, contraception health, and prenatal and postnatal care
• Provides chronic disease prevention and management services

• Diabetes Educators
• Dieticians
• Nurse Practitioners
• Physicians
• Registered Practical Nurses
• Social Workers
• Wound care nurse

• Provides immediate or urgent care for non-emergency and uncomplicated situations

• Operates an Indigenous Community Health Centre
• Offers primary health care, clinical services, and health examinations
• Offers culturally appropriate programs and services for Indigenous people, combining traditional healing and Western medical practices
• Offers a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects Project to help support women not to drink alcohol during pregnancy so as to avoid Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) birth defects or Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) birth defects
• Offers Diabetes treatment and management

• Immunization Clinic
• Wholistic Healing
• Life Skills
• Healthy Choices
• Pre/Postnatal Support

• Operates a primary care medical clinic
• Offers a walk-in and after-hours clinic
• Provides access to other health care professionals within and outside of the Family Health Team, such as a dietitian, counsellors, nurse practitioners and nurses

• Chronic disease education and prevention (Healthy Changes)
• Disease management
• Health promotion
• Palliative care
• Rehabilitation

Health centre focused on family and community health

• Provides a primary health care team that consists of Nurse Practitioners
• Offers services through the Ontario Telemedicine Network
• Offers various programs, such as the 5-step smoking cessation program and foot care

• Provides immediate care for non-emergency and uncomplicated situations, with a range of services similar to those provided by a primary care physician's office
• Offers home visitation if individual is house-bound

• Offers timely access to high quality primary care
• Offers a walk-in clinic component
• Provides access to other health care professionals within and outside of the Family Health Team
• Coordinates documentation if patient receives care from a member of the team

• Chronic disease education and prevention
• Disease management
• Health promotion
• Mental health assessment
• Palliative care
• Rehabilitation

• Provides access to a registered nurse that provides advice about urgent health care concerns
• Offers the opportunity to have family doctor receive a written summary of the call