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Health Centre

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Health Centre
Mishkeegogamang
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807-928-2298
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807-323-0954
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Fax: 807-928-2676
iconPath Health Centre: Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm


On-call Nurse: Mon-Sun 24 hours
Last Updated: Oct 15, 2025: Suggest an edit

Application

  • Requires booked appointments

  • Requests that patients bring chronic medications with them each time they attend an appointment

Eligibility / Target Population

Members of Mishkeegogamang First Nation

Fees

None

Contacts

Patricia Keesickquayash - Health Director
health.director@mishkeegogamang.ca

Languages

English

Language Notes

Interpretation available upon request

Area Served

Stanjikoming First Nation

Accessibility Note

Fully accessible

Description of Services

Provides services that promote physical and mental health for community members
  • Coordinates health care services through Nursing staff, 2 Community Health Representatives and visiting community Physician
  • 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
  • Provides services of a First Response Vehicle
  • Participates in teaching with a regular rotation of medical students and residents from Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM)

Addresses individual health care needs by providing:
  • 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
  • Suboxone program for individuals battling addictions to prescription painkillers
  • Assistance with coordinating local and long distance travel arrangements for medical appointments

Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN)
  • 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

Tribal Council: Pwi-di-goo-zing Ne-yaa-zhing Advisory Services
Provincial Territorial Organization: Grand Council Treaty #3
Reserve is 56 km NE of Fort Frances on shores of Stanjikoming Bay on Rainy Lake

Last Updated: Oct 15, 2025: Suggest an edit
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