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Your provider can write you a prescription to keep your physical activity level at the standard for basic fitness and health.

Register your Prescription here: Prescription To Get Active and you can access a huge amount of fitness resources, as well as a one-month trial membership at the Canada Games Complex.

Ask any of our health providers about this program!

Skin Screening

If you need something checked on your skin, we have a half-day clinic running on every month where you can have a skin exam from our NP and on-site treatments for minor concerns from our RPN. You can also be referred for a biopsy or to a specialist if needed. Call us for an appointment

Hearing Screening

Sign up for a hearing screening with Jody from the Canadian Hearing Society. We are holding these clinics every three months, so please call reception or ask your provider about signing up for a free screening.

Caregiver Support – Caring for the Caregiver

Are you the caregiver for a patient of our clinic, or a family member?

This comprehensive program is open to the public.  It will be hosted by a number of our clinic’s providers including Social Worker, Dietitian, NP, and local organizations.

Learn about:

Please call our clinic at 807-475-9595 to register for a spot in this six-week program (1.5 hours per week)

Memory Screening Clinic

How is your memory? Come in for a free screening!

We hope to see: anyone 75 years or older, or anyone 65-74 with: diabetes, heart disease, a previous heart attack or stroke, high blood pressure, a history of smoking, high cholesterol, atrial fibrillation, obesity, a family history of heart attack or stroke before the age of 60

Call the clinic at 807-475-9595 and inform reception that you are interested in this program.

Pap-a-palooza

During the spring, we are reserving appointment times for PAP tests for cervical cancer screening for anyone in Thunder Bay who requires one.

Partnering with the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, this program is offered to keep everyone up to date on cervical cancer screenings.

Call our clinic at 807-475-9595 to reserve a spot

Please print and complete this form and return it by mail, fax (807-475-9797) or email to info@lnplc.ca. Please note, due to the large number of applications to our clinic, you will not receive confirmation of your submission and we will not respond to requests for updates on the status of your place on the waitlist. If you have submitted your application, it will be kept on file and you will be contacted in the future should openings become available or additional staff are hired. Should you locate primary health care through a different provider, please let us know so your spot on our list can be opened to another patient in need.

Have you had an advance care planning discussion with family or friends?
Help us make the ACP Day campaign the best ever!

If you were ill and couldn’t make medical decisions, who would make them for you??

Your Substitute Decision Maker needs to know your wishes, and what’s important to you.

Watch this “What’s Your Excuse” video

See more at: http://www.advancecareplanning.ca/resource/acp-day-campaign-kit/

Happy Nurse Practitioner’s Week to all the NPs and their patients and colleagues! NPs offer cost-effective primary health care of high quality for their patients, every day. We’re grateful for all the work they do.

If you are pleased with the care you’re getting from your NP, please spread the word! Write your MPP and tell them you want more of this quality health care for you and your families!

Also, click here for a great article by RNAO CEO Doris Grinspun about the issue

Have questions about social services, family concerns, mental health concerns? Come see our Social Workers for all of your information.

View Full Post to see a video from the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers:

The Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers regulates the practice of social work and social service work in Ontario, ensuring professional and public accountability for the thousands of practitioners in our province. Learn why choosing an SW is the best option for safe, ethical and competent social work services.

The Lakehead NPLC is hosting a Memory Screening Clinic

JUNE 12, 2013

Please call 475-9595 to book an appointment with us!

We hope to see:

Anyone age 75 or over

Anyone ages 65-74 with:

Participants will be screened by a team which includes a Nurse Practitioner or Registered Nurse, our Social Worker and our Pharmacist.

Follow-up appointments may also be booked for you with our dietitian.

Please bring all of your medications and a family member to your appointment!

Visit the Thunder Bay District Health Unit’s Nutrition Month Website and FREE Grocery Store Tour Schedule.

TBDHU Nutrition Month

Call Kim at 625-8315 to register, or come see Claudia, our Registered Dietitian for your nutritional needs.

Want to know more about Nurse Practitioners and the opportunities available for them in offering health care? Watch this video:

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It’s about time Canadians had more health-care options.
About time we cut wait times.
About time that our health-care teams include more nurse practitioners.

http://www.npnow.ca/

Have questions about nutrition and your health? Come see Alixis our Registered Dietician for all of your information.

View Full Post to see a video from the College of Dieticians of Ontario:

The College of Dieticians of Ontario works in the public interest. Learn why choosing an RD is the best option for safe, ethical and competent nutrition services.

Visit our Programs/Services section for upcoming programs this fall, including:

As of April 1, 2020, there will be a walk-in clinic available for patients of this clinic only. We ask patients to call before coming to the clinic.

Appropriate visits for the walk-in clinic include:

Inappropriate visits include:

Any emergency conditions such as chest pain or severe injury should be directed to TBRHSC Emergency or call 911.