Awasisak Indigenous Health Program
Alberta Health Services - Edmonton Zone
- Description
- This program aims to improve health status, outcomes, and services for indigenous infants, children, and youth and their families who require tertiary neonatal, pediatric, or outreach care.
Program objectives include:
- ensuring that Stollery and Indigenous communities are part of the health care team, to work collaboratively and engage in ongoing resource mapping
- providing the community and hospital health care providers the ability to assess, clarify, and identify resource availability within individual hospitals and communities
- providing an effective, patient-centered approach for improving care to First Nations, M?tis and Inuit peoples and communities through specific services
- facilitating accessible, culturally safe, equitable health service delivery for all First Nations, M?tis and Inuit communities and peoples
Affiliation: Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation
Key Provider: child and family coordinators, cultural advisors, registered nurses (RNs), social workers - Eligibility
- N/A
- Application Process
- Service Access: See below, Healthcare providers should consult the Alberta Referral Directory for service referral information.
Referrals also by request support staff or families on nursing units or outpatient clinics.
Referral Process: No
Waiting Period: No,
- Telephone
- 780-407-2313
- Fax
- 780-407-6131
- Languages
- Interpreter/Translation services
- Fees
- Fee: No
Fee Reduction: No
Membership Fee: N/A - Accessibility
- Wheelchair access: Yes -
Other disabled access: Yes - Parking stalls, ramps, elevators and washrooms. - Topic(s)
- Agency Information
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- Last Verified On
- October 24, 2023
- Address
- 8440 112 Street
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2B7This facility provides a range of healthcare services for children including a 24/7 emergency department.
Open in Google Maps - Hours of Operation
- Mon08:30 AM to 04:45 PMTue08:30 AM to 04:45 PMWed08:30 AM to 04:45 PMThu08:30 AM to 04:45 PMFri08:30 AM to 04:45 PM