Aboriginal Envelope - Health System Renewal Initiatives
Tui'kn Initiative
$2,946,380
The five First Nations in Cape Breton (Membertou, Chapel Island, Eskasoni, Waycobah and Wagmatcook), Nova Scotia have forged an historic alliance to remove barriers, create partnerships, and build capacity to achieve a model of primary health care that is holistic, multi-disciplinary, comprehensive, and supportive of the goal of improved health and quality of life.
Partners:
Canadian Nurses Association; Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing; Aboriginal Nurses Association; and, various clinical and academic consultants across Canada
Objective:
- To remove barriers to an integrated, holistic, culturally-appropriate, multi-disciplinary primary health care model;
- To create mechanisms for collaborative planning and partnerships within each community - among the five communities and between local, district, provincial, and federal levels of government;
- To develop capacity for collection, management, and interpretation of health information at the local level; and
- To translate a renewed model of primary health care into action by focussing on several key areas or program development.
Activities:
- Implement alternatives to family doctor fee-for-service remuneration system;
- Train family doctors to return to communities, enter collaborative practices, and train local nurses to become nurse practitioners;
- Develop workplans for each program initiative;
- Develop evaluation strategies for each program area;
- Identify opportunities for shared programming;
- Facilitate a consensus-building process with chiefs and health directors regarding the establishment of a shared health information platform;
- Train local staff in the collection and interpretation of health information; and
- Facilitate development and implementation of an action plan addressing diabetes prevention, childhood injury prevention, prescription drug misuse, and non-traditional tobacco use.
Expected Results:
- Improved access to holistic, multi-disciplinary, culturally relevant primary health care services; co-ordination of service within community; integration of service with provincial health care system; and, quality of care and health outcomes.
- Creation of community capacity to manage and guide primary care services that will continue to meet residents' needs.
Contact:
Stacey Lewis
Project Manager
Tui'kn Initiative
107 Membertou Street
Membertou, NS B1S 2M9
Tel: (902) 564-6466 ext. 282
Fax: (902) 539-9954
Email: staceylewis@membertou.ca
 www.tuikn.ca
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