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Sandy Lake Nursing Station
Nursing Station
Sandy Lake First Nation
Sandy Lake First Nation
807-774-6131
Fax: 807-774-1585
Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm
Last updated: Jul 26, 2024: Suggest an edit
Application
Booked appointments recommended
Eligibility - Population(s) Served
Members of Sandy Lake First Nation
Fees
None
Contacts
Assistant Health Director
807-774-1273
Health Director
807-774-1133
807-774-1273
Health Director
807-774-1133
Languages
English
Language Note
Oji-Cree interpretation available upon request
Area(s) Served
Sandy Lake First Nation
Accessibility
Wheelchair Accessible
Description of Services:
Provides services that promote physical and mental health for community members
- Coordinates health care services through Nursing station
- Provides physician consultations a few days per month with a visiting physician from Sioux Lookout
- Provides health awareness and counselling, education and prevention workshops especially in the areas of diabetes and alcohol/drug abuse
- Coordinates clinics/workshops in areas that may include Diabetes, Immunization, Sexual Health and Communicable Diseases
- Offers a palliative care program when required
- 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
- 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
- Participates in Thunder Bay's Regional Critical Care Response Program (RCCR) as a pilot site with other First Nation communities which enables patients to now be triaged and cared for by critical care doctors and other highly-skilled staff at Thunder Bay Regional Health Science Centre's Intensive Care Unit via videoconferencing equipment prior to air transfer via Orng
About Us
Independent First Nation (No Tribal Council affiliation)
Provincial Territorial Organization: Nishnawbe-Aski Nation (NAN)
Treaty #5
Reserve is approximately 227 km NE of Red Lake, on the NW end of Sandy Lake along the Manitoba border
Last updated: Jul 26, 2024: Suggest an edit
