Indigenous Care Coordinators
The Indigenous Care Coordinator is available for navigation, advocacy, discharge planning, and support for Indigenous inpatients and families that are unfamiliar with medical systems, do not speak English, and/or have travelled a long distance for medical care. Indigenous Care Coordinator services include:
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- Connecting to translation and interpretation services in Cree, Oji-Cree and Ojibway
- Supporting inpatient during their stay at Health Sciences Centre
- Liaising and advocating for patients and their families with their health care team
- Providing information and education in a culturally sensitive way
- Providing a connection with Non-Insured Health Benefits, access to iPad and book lending libraries, link patients to traditional care practitioners, and act as liaisons with the Complements & Concerns process
- Participate in bed rounds to support patients, nursing staff and interprofessional teams to develop appropriate plan of care and discharge plan
- Facilitating discharge planning with physician/health care practitioner through an interdisciplinary team approach
Please call an Indigenous Care Coordinator directly or through email
TBRHSC.IndigenousCareCoordinators@tbh.net.
Indigenous Care Coordinator contact: - Gloria Boshkaykin - (807) 684-7923
- Carla Shawayhamaish - (807) 684-7920
- Naomi Sinclair - (807) 684-7274
- Jillian Larabee – Grand Council Treaty #3 - (807) 684-6248
