Nibinamik First Nation - Nibinamik Health Centre

• Coordinates health care services through a nursing station health team consisting of community health nurses/nurse practitioners, a community health representative and a full-time counsellor
• Provides Physician consultations twice per month through a visiting physician from Sioux Lookout
• Provides treatment and emergency services
• Promotes positive lifestyle practices and illness prevention activities
• Coordinates clinics/workshops in areas that may include Diabetes, Immunization, Sexual Health and Communicable Diseases
• Provides mental health services including counselling
• Coordinates visits from dentists and optometrists periodically through the year

• 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

Services and Programs:

• Nibinamik Education Centre - Early Childhood Development
• Crisis Intervention
• Daycare Program
• Diabetes Program
• Family Well Being Program
• Healthy Babies Healthy Children
• Home and Community Care
• Medical Transportation Program
• Mental Health Program
• National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program
• Youth Program