Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre

Description

About
We are a hospital based health centre focused on the continuum of primary health care services including a broad range of basic and some specialist hospital services specialized community based programs and services responding to population health needs withdrawal management suicide TB etc long term care and integrated traditional and modern medicine

The Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre is a fully accredited 41 acute care bed and 5 chronic care bed hospital and a 20 bed Extended Care facility

We provide health services with respect to culture and linguistic diversity of all residents within Sioux Lookout and the surrounding area and to people from the NishnawbeAski communities north of Sioux Lookout the Treaty 3 community of Lac Seul First Nation as well as to residents of Pickle Lake and Savant Lake

Mission Vision amp Values Statement
Slogan
Working Hand in Hand with our communities to build a healthier future

Mission
We are more than a hospital

We provide culturally responsive acute long term and ambulatory care mental health and addiction services and community based and traditional healing services to the Sioux Lookout area and to the northern First Nations

Vision
We will be a Center of Excellence for health through

New and Expanded Services

Partnerships

and care that is

Patient centered

Service oriented

Performance focused

Values
We value compassion fairness integrity and teamwork

We celebrate diversity

We recognize different pathways to health

We do care

History

The Town of Sioux Lookout is the current location of two hospitals the Sioux Lookout District Health Centre and the Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital Each has a distinctive history and each has come to represent a place of importance for the people who use its services

The Sioux Lookout General Hospital was built in 1923 after a local train accident inspired townspeople to mount a fundraising campaign This first hospital was located on the site of the present Town Clinic and for a time served the medical needs of all Sioux Lookout District residents In 1950 the General Hospital was rebuilt at its current location The hospital became a corporation without share capital governed by the Corporations Act Ontario in 1990 and was renamed the Sioux Lookout District Health Centre DHC The 20 bed Wm A Bill George Extended Care Facility was opened on a new site as part of the Health Centres operations in 1991 The 29 bed District Health Centre provides services to people from Sioux Lookout Hudson and the surrounding area Its history has always been characterized by substantial personal involvement and fundraising on the part of town and area residents

A second hospital was established in Sioux Lookout in 1950 by the Government of Canada primarily to provide tuberculosis treatment to the First Nations people of the NishnawbeAski area As the tuberculosis epidemic decreased the Sioux Lookout Indian Hospital took on the role of a general acute care facility The facility changed its name to the Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital in 1971 and extended care to nonNative residents As Medical Services Branch built nursing stations and health clinics in the 28 northern First Nation communities the bond between the Zone Hospital and the north strengthened Today the 39 bed facility acts as the hub of medical services for Nishnawbe people from the Sioux Lookout District It also acts as a referral centre to 18 nursing stations and numerous health centres and satellite facilities located in these communities District First Nations people feel closely connected with their hospital and its services

In 1992 NishnawbeAski Nation on behalf of the Sioux Lookout District Chiefs invited the Governments of Canada and Ontario and the Town of Sioux Lookout to explore the idea of combining hospital services in Sioux Lookout The Sioux Lookout Town Council appointed representatives from Town Council and other representatives recommended by the Board of Directors of the DHC The four Parties established the Sioux Lookout Hospital Negotiating Committee The Parties made four primary commitments

to develop an agreement on combining hospital and related services
to improve health and health care services
to better balance health care services between prevention and treatment of illness and
to strengthen relationships among all the Parties

We see this process as an opportunity Though our existing hospitals have served us well they are aging and need to be replaced By working together we can establish a new hospital for all and eliminate the current duplication in Sioux Lookout hospital services We can also redirect more resources towards community health needs
This Agreement is the result of four years of discussion Through it we agree to combine the resources of our two existing hospitals and develop one new high quality hospital in Sioux Lookout This facility and its directly related services will respect the cultural and linguistic diversity of all the people in our District and provide equal care to all including Sioux Lookout townspeople people from the surrounding area and First Nations People from the NishnawbeAski area