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Offers a variety of community services in the area of safety and health including the following:

Medical First Response Services

• Provides volunteer-based Medical First Response at local community events

Therapy Dog Program

• Visits hospitals, retirement homes, and long term care facilities within the community
• Evaluates volunteers and their dogs to become part of the program

PAWS 4 Stories Program

• Encourages children to read to a therapy dog and their handler to help improve literacy

Car Seat Inspection Program

• Invites parents to make an appointment to ensure their car and/or booster seats are installed and secured correctly and to ensure that children are safe while out on the road

Youth Services

• Offers children and youth ample opportunity for fun, along with learning first aid and life skills while giving back to the community

Ladies Auxiliary

• Raises money through cookbook and yard sales to support St John Ambulance services

Emergency room care

Provides diagnostic and treatment services for individuals who have acute life-threatening injuries or severe illnesses

Psychiatric Emergency Services
Provides psychiatric assessments by a team of nurse managers, psychiatrists and residents


Sexual Assault and Partner Abuse Care Program

• Provides initial emergency care only with the patient's informed consent
• Provides follow-up services accessible through the Victim Treatment Centre (VTC) follow up nurse

Acute care hospital

Provides a comprehensive range of acute care in-patient and out-patient services to the residents of Thunder Bay and regional referral services to the residents of Northwestern Ontario

Features the following programs:

• Cardiovascular and Stroke
• Chronic Disease Prevention & Management
• Genetics Program
• Integrated Cancer Care with a High Dose Brachytherapy Operating Room
• Inpatient Oncology Unit, and a developed supportive regional program
• Mental Health
• Regional Cancer Care Northwest
• Regional Trauma Centre
• Renal Program that reaches out to assist patients in Sioux Lookout and Fort Frances
• Women & Children's

Provides numerous services including:

• Ambulatory Care
• Base Hospital
• Critical Care
• Diagnostic
• Emergency
• Medicine Services
• Prevention & Screening
• Supportive & Palliative Care
• Surgical
• Telemedicine

Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT)

• Provides a multidisciplinary mental health team organized as an accountable (primary provider of services) mobile agency that functions interchangeably

Centre for Complex Diabetes Care

• Provides expert care for patients experiencing complications related to diabetes

Maternity Centre

• Offers prenatal and post natal care to women from a nurse practitioner, midwife, family physician or obstetrician

Ontario Breast Screening Program, Northwest Region

• Provides free breast screening for women

Regional Cancer Care

• Cancer Care
• Supportive Care
• Nicotine Dependence Centre
• Tamarack House

Supportive Care

• Offers support services for current patients and former patients of the Regional Cancer Centre, their families and their friends

Tamarack House

• Offers lodging at no charge for out-of-town patients and companions for the duration of their treatment

Thunder Bay Sexual Domestic Violence Treatment Centre

• Provides initial emergency care only with the patient's informed consent
• Provides follow-up services accessible through the Victim Treatment Centre (VTC) follow up nurse

Functions as the designated ambulance delivery agent for the district of Thunder Bay

EMS District Operations oversees stations in:

• Armstrong
• Beardmore
• Conmee
• Geraldton
• Longlac
• Manitouwadge
• Marathon
• Nakina
• Nipigon
• Red Rock
• Schreiber
• Shuniah
• Terrace Bay
• Upsala

EMS City Operations are in charge of the City of Thunder Bay

Note: Requests for non-emergency transportation by ambulance can only be booked by dialing 9-1-1

Emergency room care

Provides diagnostic and treatment services for individuals who have acute life-threatening injuries or severe illnesses

Sexual Assault and Partner Abuse Care Program

• Provides initial emergency care only with the patient's informed consent
• Provides follow-up services accessible through the Victim Treatment Centre (VTC) follow up nurse

• Operates a 37-bed level C hospital with acute care and specialty care beds
• Provides 24-hour a day coverage by on-site or on-call physicians, advanced technological and diagnostic capabilities, and additional specialty services

Offers the following programs

• Cancer care
• Cardiac care
• Diabetes Education
• Diagnostic services
• Lab services
• Long Term Care
• Meals on Wheels
• Medical Day Program
• Respite Care
• Rehabilitative services

Emergency Room

• Provides immediate care for emergency situations - including serious or life-threatening illnesses or injuries

Palliative Care

• Provides emotional and spiritual support along with pain and symptom management
• Individuals in the end stages of terminal illness and to their friends and families

Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) - North Network

• Provides access to specialized medical care using video conferencing and other tele-diagnostic equipment
• Allows specialists to remotely examine and prescribe treatments to patients in their home communities
• Reduces the need to travel to receive medical care

Emergency room care

Provides diagnostic and treatment services for individuals who have acute life-threatening injuries or severe illnesses

Sexual Assault and Partner Abuse Care Program

• Provides initial emergency care only with the patient's informed consent
• Provides follow-up services accessible through the Victim Treatment Centre (VTC) follow-up Nurse

Emergency room care

Provides diagnostic and treatment services for individuals who have acute life-threatening injuries or severe illnesses

Sexual Assault and Partner Abuse Care Program

• Provides initial emergency care only with the patient's informed consent
• Provides follow-up services accessible through the Victim Treatment Centre (VTC) follow-up Nurse

Urgent Care medical clinic

• Provides access through booked same-day appointments to an on-call Physician for individuals requiring urgent care
• Provides treatment services for medical conditions that require urgent treatment but do not require a visit to a hospital emergency department

Children and youth (17 years of age and under) living in low-income households receive dental services funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Services include routine, preventive and emergency dental service, including:

• dental cleanings and check-ups
• x-rays
• cavity fillings
• urgent care for toothaches and pain

Provides local and long-distance non-urgent medical transfers. Special event medical coverage. First aid, CPR, AED, EFR, EMR, WHMIS training.

Provides non-urgent patient transportation including Bariatric patients over 250 lbs.