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Health centre focused on family and community health

• Offers access to primary care through a multidisciplinary team of Family Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, a Clinic Nurse, and Mental Health Therapist
• Manages a diabetes wellness centre

Offers primary health care including but not limited to:

• Disease and illness cure, management and prevention
• Education and outreach
• Health promotion
• Wellness activities

Clinics, Programs and Services include but are not limited to:

• Blood sugar screening program
• Cancer screening tests
• Care coordination for Elders
• Chronic disease follow-up
• Collaboration with specialist services
• Diabetic Educator
• Dietitian
• Foot care clinics
• Health incident management (infections, bronchitis etc)
• Immunization clinics
• Mental health/addictions counselling
• Prenatal care
• Well-baby assessments

• Delivers health and related programs and services to member First Nation communities
• Represents and lobbies for Wabun First Nation members in all health-related issues on all levels with other Native and non-Native agencies

Administers the following programs:

Diabetes Strategy

• Focuses on the well being and health education of Native people with diabetes
• Provides a strategy of preventative medicine and promotes self-management of diabetes

Long Term Care

• Focuses on home support services to enable Wabun area clients to remain in own home
• Provides nursing assessment, case management, foot care clinics and advocacy

National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program (NNADAP)

• Provides services and supports for community members struggling with addiction issues
• Focuses on counselling services, support groups and treatment facilities

Also coordinates:

• Community Health Nursing Program
• NIHB-Medical Transportation Program
• Regional Crisis Intervention
• Wabun Youth Gathering

• Provides programs and services that promote physical and mental health for community members
• Coordinates health care services through visiting health professionals such as home care and community health nurses and weekly visits from a physician
• Provides health awareness and counselling, education and prevention workshops
• Coordinates clinics in areas that may include Diabetes, Immunization, Sexual Health and Communicable Diseases

Addresses individual health care needs by providing:

• 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

Offers primary health care services by Nursing and medical personnel

• Provides services through on-site Registered Nurse, a visiting Nurse Practitioner two days per week and a visiting Physician one day per week
• Provides treatment and emergency services
• Conducts occasional home visits for shut-ins
• Promotes positive lifestyle practices and illness prevention activities
• Coordinates clinics/workshops in areas that may include Diabetes, Immunization, Sexual Health, Smoking Cessation and Communicable Diseases

Provides non-urgent family and community medical services to patients