Exploring Theme: "Investments in Indigenous Healing Centres"

How this Kanien’kehá:ka community asserted its sovereignty over health care The Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre completed a $28 million expansion and renovation in 2019.Steve Rompré/Radio-Canada June is National Indigenous History Month. To celebrate our accomplishments, CBC Indigenous is highlighting First Nations, Inuit and Métis trailblazers in law, medicine, science, sports — and beyond. CBC Indigenous: Retired...

By Emelia Fournier Recovery centre in Nunavik to welcome more guests in new building. APTN News: Perched atop a hill in the tundra looking out at the Koksoak River, the new Isuarsivik building gives its guests easy access to the land – something land coordinator George Kauki said is necessary for Inuit to recover. “We’re very connected to the land, Mother Nature, it brings...

$45M facility replaces ‘old and deteriorated’ building that dates back to 1979 NationTalk: Nunatsiaq News – The new Qallisarvik Health Centre in Aupaluk is officially open, replacing an older, outdated facility that dated back to the late 1970s. (Photo special to Nunatsiaq News) By Cedric GallantSpecial to Nunatsiaq News Aupaluk’s new health centre is officially...

Centre will offer traditional Indigenous and Western approaches to medicine CBC News: An emergency care clinic catering exclusively to Indigenous people and their needs is opening in Montreal this week — the first of its kind in the city.  Anyone who identifies as Indigenous will be able to walk into the clinic — initiated by the Indigenous Health...

Announcement of construction of a new Eeyou-Eenou Regional Health Centre in Chisasibi. The new $300M, 20,000 m2 facility will combine a 52-bed hospital for the population of Eeyou Istchee (approximately 20,000), and a Community Miyupimaatisiiun Centre (CMC), offering front-line services and community health for the local population of Chisasibi. The new Regional Health Centre is...

From the Infrastructure Canada to build the new Isuarsivik Regional Recovery Centre in Kuujjuaq in addition to the $6-million contribution by federal Indigenous Services last year. Other funding has come from Isuarsivik’s own fundraising efforts, as well as the Government of Quebec, Makivik Corp. and the Kativik Regional Government. The total investment required $40.5 million to...