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 phone an Indigenous Care Coordinator directly, through email
TBRHSC.IndigenousCareCoordinators@tbh.net, or referrals can be done through Meditech order entry category: INDSERV procedure: ICC. 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
