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Sandy Lake Nursing Station
Nursing Station
Sandy Lake First Nation
Sandy Lake First Nation
807-774-6131
Fax: 807-774-1585
Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm
Last Updated: Aug 18, 2025: Suggest an edit
Application
Booked appointments recommended
Eligibility / Target Population
Members of Sandy Lake First Nation
Fees
None
Contacts
Joan Rae - Health Director
807-774-1133
807-774-1133
Languages
English
Language Notes
Oji-Cree interpretation available upon request
Area Served
Sandy Lake First Nation
Accessibility
Wheelchair Accessible
Description of Services
Provides services that promote physical and mental health for community members
- Coordinates health care services through Nursing station
- Provides physician consultations a few days per month with 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
- Offers a palliative care program when required
- 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
- Participates in Thunder Bay's Regional Critical Care Response Program (RCCR) as a pilot site with other First Nation communities which enables patients to now be triaged and cared for by critical care doctors and other highly-skilled staff at Thunder Bay Regional Health Science Centre's Intensive Care Unit via videoconferencing equipment prior to air transfer via Orng
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About Us
Independent First Nation (No Tribal Council affiliation)
Provincial Territorial Organization: Nishnawbe-Aski Nation (NAN)
Treaty #5
Reserve is approximately 227 km NE of Red Lake, on the NW end of Sandy Lake along the Manitoba border
Last Updated: Aug 18, 2025: Suggest an edit