Deer Lake First Nation - Deer Lake Health Centre

• Provides health awareness, education and prevention workshops and seminars
• Coordinates clinics in areas including Blood Pressure, Immunization, Sexual Health and Communicable Diseases
• Coordinates basic foot care sessions and workshops in individual's home or at clinic
• Offers a diabetic clinic
• Provides mental health counselling
• Administers the Jeannette-Oscar Lydokenne Nursing Station

• Intake services to determine health care needs of individual
• Referrals to appropriate health care providers based on information in the intake assessment
• Advocacy on behalf of individual with other health professionals
• Coordination of one-on-one pre-natal care with the community health nurse
• Prenatal classes and post-natal visits
• Home visits to the sick, elderly, new mothers and persons with health care needs
• Various health-related programs

Services and Programs:

• Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative
• Aboriginal Healthy Babies Healthy Children
• Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program
• Crisis Intervention
• Family Well Being Program
• Home and Community Care Program
• Home Support Program
• Maternal Child Health Program
• Mental Health Program
• National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program
• Women and Child Community Nutrition Educator