The Tsi Kanonhkhwatsheriyo Indigenous Interprofessional Primary Care Team’s new location in Bancroft is now open and accepting new patients.
To register, patients must not currently have a primary healthcare provider, have an Ontario health card and be Indigenous.
Primary healthcare nurse practitioner Erica Harder said the clinic is also a status-blind facility, meaning people can access it whether they have a status card or not.
She said Indigenous people in the area who do have a primary care provider but are interested in being served by the Indigenous care team can talk to their doctor about de-rostering.
The new clinic combines Indigenous and mainstream ways of knowing to offer primary care, traditional healing, mental health services and community development programs.
“Traditional medicine, I like to think of it as working with western medicine versus the two of them working against each other,” Harder said.
The new location was announced this summer at the Kijicho Manito Madaouskarini office in L’Amable, by Tsi Kanonhkhwatsheriyo executive director Tera Osborne and MPP Ric Bresee.
The opening of the new clinic is supported by the province’s Primary Care Action Plan.
