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Traditional Healing, Medicine, Food and Support Program
1 Meno Ya Win Way
Sioux Lookout
Sioux Lookout
807-737-6561
Fax: 807-737-5278
Office: Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm
Services: Mon-Sun 24 hours
Services: Mon-Sun 24 hours
Last updated: Apr 3, 2025: Suggest an edit
Application
No application process
Eligibility - Population(s) Served
In-patient First Nation individuals
Fees
None
Contacts
Kathy Loon - Manager, Traditional Healing, Medicine, Food and Services
kloon@slmhc.on.ca
kloon@slmhc.on.ca
Languages
English
Language Note
Cree, Oji-Cree, Ojibway; available upon request
Accessibility
Wheelchair Accessible
Description of Services:
Provides a broad set of services that address the health and cultural needs of a largely Indigenous population and focuses on cross-cultural integration in five key aspects of all services:
Odabiidamageg (Governance and Leadership)
Odabiidamageg (Governance and Leadership)
- Provides a board consisting of two-thirds Anishinaabe members and one-third non-native individuals
- Balances all committees with native and non-native members
- Consults with Elders, Native special advisors about key issues
- Provides interpreter services Mon-Sun 24 hours at all levels to optimize care planning and delivery
- Progressing towards offering translation of all symbols, information materials, signage and other materials into Anishinaabe languages
- Offers advice and support to patients and families from a traditional Elder including during critical illness and death of a family member
- Facilitates a cultural awareness and training program (Bimaadiziwin) to all Health Centre staff
- Offers dedicated ceremonial, healing and related gathering and support spaces to allow for traditional healing services
- Allows patients and families to use a limited range of traditional medicines under supervision
- Permits the use of sacred traditional medicines in healing ceremonies
- Provides a variety of traditional foods to patients, escorts and families such as bannock, wild rice, walleye, wild fish and game and herbs, plants and berries
- Observes and respects the traditional sacredness of food preparation (and provincial health regulations), storage, serving and disposal
- Provides rotating menus and cooking styles (smoked, dried etc) as possible, to both Native and non-Native cultures
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Last updated: Apr 3, 2025: Suggest an edit
