Webequie First Nation - Nursing Station

• Coordinates health care services through a health team that consists of 3 community health nurses/nurse practitioners, 1 community health representative and 2 full-time counsellors
• Provides physician consultations twice per month through 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
• 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:

• Crisis Intervention
• Family Well Being Program
• Healthy Babies Healthy Children
• Home and Community Care - Physiotherapy Services
• Medical Transportation Program
• Mental Health Program
• National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program