Kid's Health
Our youth continue to be the focus of prevention and health promotion activities.
The nursing staff is doing annual screening of heights and weights of all the school population to assist in measuring success of prevention activities. Some of this data will be analyzed with assistance from the Northern School of Medicine and the nursing program.
Adult Health
We have a nurse practitioner on site at the Health Centre through Noojmowin Teg that provides Well Woman services for the clientele. We also provide workshops on health topics such as smoking cessation, men’s health and diabetes prevention averaging about 12 participants.
Maternal Health Services
Prenatal classes are held each quarter for the 16 prenatal clients and family members in the community. The Community Health Nurse visits the known prenatal clients at least once a month and collaborates with their primary health care provider to ensure that our prenatal clients are being seen routinely.
Elder's Health Services
A large number of our elders are part of the Long-Term Care program. This number can vary from month to month, with clients voluntarily accessing services such as socials, church and grocery store outings.
Traditional Health Services
Traditional Health has increased substantially over the past couple of years. The increased number of members reverting back to traditional medicines has impacted our traditional program in a very positive manner. Our Health Promotion Worker funded under the AHWS program has increased the number of healer visits over the last couple of years to accommodate the number of requests. There is very limited funding when it comes to traditional healing which causes delays in our healer visits.
Mental Health Program
M’Chigeeng Health Services provides mental health and addictions services to community members of M’Chigeeng First Nation. Services include both direct and indirect mental health and addictions services. Direct services being provided through clinical interventions and indirect services include mental health promotion, prevention and public education. Our service delivery model includes both western and traditional forms of intervention.
Psychological Services
The Noojmowin Teg Health Centre Psychologist is scheduled to provide four days per month of psychological services to M’Chigeeng Health Services. On reviewing the psychological services provided, there is limited consultation with mental health program staff although the psychologist attends Fresh Start monthly meetings throughout the school year at Lakeview School. The majority of the service provision is of a direct clinical intervention by the visiting psychologist.
Medical Transportation
Medical Transportation continues to be an issue of concern in two areas, with the first one being reimbursements from First Nations and Inuit Health, Non- Insured Program. Each year our auditor raises concerns with the time frame for reimbursements from FHIH-NIHB. The second concern is with the drastic increase in the cost of fuel, there has not been any compensation in the mileage rates for medical appointments. It is becoming more difficult to find medical drivers at the current rates.
