Searching for Walk-In Medical Clinics

Offers a weekly, walk-in primary care clinic for people experiencing homelessness?

Supports include:

• general and physical assessments
• sexual health, including Pap tests and access to birth control
• immunizations
• wound and diabetic care
• referrals to treatment and support

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

• Operates a level C hospital with acute care and specialty care beds
• Provides 24-hour a day coverage by on-site or on-call physicians, advanced technological and diagnostic capabilities, and additional specialty services

Emergency Room

• Provides immediate care for emergency situations - including serious or life-threatening illnesses or injuries
• Offers estimated wait times for the Emergency Department, updated every 15 minutes through a link on the website: Current Emergency Wait Times

Palliative Care
 

• Provides emotional & spiritual support along with pain & symptom management
   
• Individuals in the end stages of terminal illness and to their friends and families

Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) - North Network
 

• Provides access to specialized medical care using video conferencing and other tele-diagnostic equipment
   
• Allows specialists to remotely examine and prescribe treatments to patients in their home communities
   
• Reduces the need to travel to receive medical care

Emergency room care

Provides diagnostic and treatment services for individuals who have acute life-threatening injuries or severe illnesses

Provides immediate care for emergency situations, including serious or life-threatening illnesses or injuries

• 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

Emergency room care Provides diagnostic and treatment services for individuals who have acute life-threatening injuries or severe illnesses

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

Operates a community hospital providing emergency care, acute care, long-term care, physiotherapy, telemedicine, diagnostic imaging and laboratory services