KO team joins other health providers at region Public Health delivery workshop
September 30, 2006 - 9:39am | by Anonymous
Donna Williams, KO Telehealth Program Manager and Penny Carpenter, K-Net Business Manager joined other health service providers from across the region in a two day workshop (Sept 27-28) in Sioux Lookout. The workshop was hosted by the Northwestern Ontario Health unit (http://www.nwhu.on.ca/).
Discussions centred around the delivery of public health services in First Nation communities across the region.
Representatives from the tribal councils, the Assembly of First Nations (Sagatay Williams), Northern Ontario School of Medicine (Orpah McKenzie), Ontario Telehealth Network,(Stewart Stein), Health Canada and the NWHU spent the two days exploring strategies to ensure equitable access to services in the remote First Nations across the region.