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Innovative land-based treatment program ready to launch for Moose Cree

Moose Cree Health Services is opening its first land-based withdrawal management facility for post-treatment support this January. The program, dubbed Bim Bij Joo Wuk (meaning “going together”) Healing Facility, aims to ease participants back into the community by spending their time deep in nature.

Julie McIntosh

Cree thoughts on midwifery, then and now

Cree babies born on Cree land. Great news for a hunting society. Way to go – Cree Health Board (CBHSSJB) and the Nation for reporting it.

Simulating the realities of Northern nursing

Once a year, nurses in Eeyou Istchee gather outside their home communities for a week of skills training. This year’s training included the unique opportunity to learn from the latest medical simulation technologies at McGill University’s Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning in Montreal.

Patrick Quinn

New study highlights the importance of traditional foods access in Eeeyou Istchee

On November 7, the Assembly of First Nations, the University of Ottawa and the Université de Montréal released the first draft of the decade-long study regarding First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment (FNFNES).

Julie McIntosh

Major regional health services and funding agreement announced in Chisasibi

All eyes were on Chisasibi October 7 as Cree leaders and provincial ministers made two major announcements of great significance for the future of health care in Eeyou Istchee.

Patrick Quinn

Hemodialysis pilot project launches in Waswanipi

A seven-hour trip, three times a week to receive treatments in Chibougamau is the reality for dialysis patients living in Waswanipi, but a new home hemodialysis pilot project, launching in October, is looking to change all that.

Dan Isaac

Moose population declines in areas surrounding Eeyou Istchee

With the fall moose hunt on the horizon, some alarming news is coming from the south and west of Eeyou Istchee.

Dan Isaac

Theresa Ducharme has created a new exercise program for the entire body

After nine and a half years of running Lemon Cree, Theresa Ducharme says she finally feels like she has found the “missing link,” when it comes to changing people’s lives through her original fitness program

Amy German

Introducing Eeyou Istchee’s newest medical school graduate

In May, Kevin Brousseau officially became a doctor when he graduated from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM).

Amy German

The first Cree midwife births in decades happen in Chisasibi

The return of Cree babies being born on Cree land – surrounded by the women in their family and community – is something Cree Elders have advocated for since it stopped in 1997.

Amy German

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