Cat Lake First Nation - Margaret Gray Nursing Station

• Provides services that promote physical and mental health for community members
• Coordinates health care services through the Margaret Gray Nursing Station; health team consists of three community health nurses, home-care nurse and a community health representative
• Provides physician consultations one week 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 problematic alcohol and substance use
• 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 twice per 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:

• Immunization Clinic
• Medical Transportation Program