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Health Programs Overview for the
Mistawasis Health Centre

Community Health Representatives

Linda Head

The CHR in Mistawasis is Linda Head. She has many responsibilities to utilize her time as she works with the community and help carry out the community health programs.

• The Elderly
• The Chronic Care clients, Diabetics
• Environmental Health, water sampling
• Monthly Health Themes
• Well baby clinics
• Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program
• School age Immunizations
• Pre-school screening
• TB Screening
• Community kitchen
• Pre and Post natal follow ups
• Emergency Prepardness Planning/Pamdemic Planning
• Dietian workshops and counseling
• Visit and inform parents and get consents filled out and signed.

Community Health Nursing

Lyndon Tieszen

The Community Health Nurse for Mistawasis is Lyndon Tieszen. The program areas that are included in this area of health are as follows:

• Immunizations for well babies clinics,
• Pre-school screening,
• School age Hep B and Td programs
• Communicable disease control
• Notifiable diseases
• Contact tracing for CDC
• Family centered Maternal Health Care prenatal program;
  • prenatal counseling
  • Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program administration and planning postnatal program visits
  • lactation support
  • tobacco reduction in pregnancy
• Infant and Preschool health
  • postnatal visits
  • infant check
  • chronic, at risk f/u of child
  • child health clinic
  • preschool clinic
• School Age Health
  • nurse/teacher conferences regarding health issues
  • school visits for immunizations
  • vision and hearing screening
  • personal hygiene
  • lice checks
  • referrals and f/u
  • health promotion
• Adult Health
  • health education/promotion
  • lifestyle education
  • screening services
  • liaison services
  • for f/u of various health concerns and conditions
  • tobacco reduction
  • HIV/AIDS program/harm reduction
• Chronic Conditions
  • education
  • monitoring
  • referral
  • liaising
  • of the various medical conditions that band members suffer from