Eabametoong First Nation, Fort Hope
Nursing Station
- Nursing Station providing basic medical and health care services
- Offers a primary health care Nursing Station including treatment and emergency services
- Provides services of a Physician, Optometrist and Dentist on a monthly basis
- Provides health awareness, education and prevention workshops and seminarsHouses an X-ray room and a small pharmacy
Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN)
- Provides access to specialized medical care using videoconferencing 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 care
Home and Community Care
- Provides health care services for ill, injured or elderly community members in their own homes
- Provides the following services through a Case Manager/Nurse, 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
- 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
National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program
- Provides services and support for individuals and families struggling with addiction issues
- Offers Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings when required
- Provides transportation to all meetings and workshops upon request
Prevention
- Provides public seminars/meetings to raise community awareness of alcohol, drug abuse and gambling addictions
- Holds educational sessions in schools
- Coordinates cultural and spiritual events
Intervention
- Facilitates recreational activities and social events
- Provides individual and group discussions
- Offers cultural and spiritual gatherings
Aftercare Services
- Provides the following services aimed at preventing alcohol and drug abuse problems from reoccurring:
- Counselling, sharing circles and support groups
- Regular phone calls and home visits
- Referrals to band services, social services, detoxification and treatment centres and medical assistance
Suboxone Treatment Centre
- Operates a detoxification centre for community members addicted to Oxycontin
- Functions as a day program
- Provides a 4-bedroom house renovated into a detoxification centre that can treat 10 people at one time; includes a sauna on the property
- Offers the drug suboxone in place of methadone to minimize the effects of withdrawal
Program includes the following services:
- Intake
- Withdrawal treatment
- Counselling
- Aftercare
Also provides:
- Mental health and addictions counselling
- Referrals to other treatment centres and programs such as Nodin Child & Family Intervention Services in Sioux Lookout
Aboriginal Healthy Babies/Healthy Children
- Delivers a parenting support program and promotes healthy child development
- Provides group information and educational sessions on topics about healthy pregnancy, birth and taking care of baby at home
- Provides information on the stages of pregnancy
- Offers parents handbook of pregnancy and baby care (Baby's Best Chance)
- Organizes prenatal classes as needed
- Operates a children's library to encourage child literacy
Program participants are provided with:
- Follow up via telephone within 48 hours of discharge from hospital
- Home visits pre birth to prepare family for new arrival
- Home visits post birth to offer support to new mothers
- Home visits during child's early years to offer child development guidance
- Referrals to other programs and services
Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative
- Supports for people living with prediabetes or diabetes
- Provides education and services for the prevention, management and treatment of diabetes
- Provides case management and screening services
- Works to reduce the number of avoidable complications that can arise from uncontrolled diabetes
- Advises on developing and implementing an approach to care and management of diabetes
- Assists individuals in finding appropriate services
- Provides referrals to other health care professionals
Crisis Intervention
- Provides crisis intervention services to individuals affected by family violence or suicide
- Offers immediate on site or telephone assistance
- Dispatches call to police when deemed necessary
- Ensures victims receive support and assistance to secure their safety
- Arranges meeting family members at centre or agreed upon location to discuss possible crisis resolutions
- Provides advocacy on behalf of individuals and families dealing with various agencies
- Provides information and referrals to appropriate resources and services
- Assists with meal preparation, transportation, homemaking and other areas requiring support for families in crisis situations such as the suicide of a youth
Immunization Clinic
- Provides inoculations or other measures to prevent people from contracting specific controllable diseases
Medical Transportation Program
- Delivers medical transportation services and assistance in making medical appointment arrangements
- Provides transportation to medical appointments within the community and to the airport for health-related flights
- Arranges for air transportation from/to Eabametoong First Nation to any medical appointments (doctor, dentist, optometrist, specialist) in Sioux Lookout or Thunder Bay
Source: https://www.northwesthealthline.ca/displayService.aspx?id=141597
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