Seine River First Nation
Health Services
- Provides services that promote physical and mental health for community members
- Provides health awareness, education and prevention workshops and seminars
- Coordinates clinics in areas that may include Diabetes, Immunization, Sexual Health and Communicable Diseases
- Coordinates monthly foot care sessions in individual's home or at health office
- Works with maintenance workers and Environmental Health Officer to ensure community water quality
- Identifies and attempts to correct health hazards
Addresses individual health care needs by providing:
- Intake services to determine health care needs of individual
- 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
Immunization Clinic
Provides inoculations or other measures to prevent people from contracting specific controllable diseases
Long Term Care Program
- 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
Medical Transportation Program
- Delivers medical transportation services and assistance in making medical appointment arrangements
- Provides transportation from/to Seine River Reserve to any medical appointments (doctor, dentist, optometrist and mental health counselling) in the town of Fort Frances
- Provides assistance with making arrangements for any medical appointments out of town such as booking appointments
Source: https://www.northwesthealthline.ca/displayService.aspx?id=142020