Health and Social Services
Community Health
Community Health Nurses (CHN’s) are located in Watson Lake, Dawson City and Whitehorse Health Centre. CHN’s provide a wide range of preventative health services.
Programs delivered by the facilities include:
- Community Health Programs:
- Maternal-Child (e.g. Prenatal, Well Child)
- Well Woman
- School Health
- Chronic Disease Follow Up
- Geriatric
- Home Visiting
- Health Education/Promotion - includes a variety of areas (e.g. nutrition, environmental health, mental health, dental health, AIDS, etc.)
- Immunization
- Adult Health
- Communicable Disease (e.g. TB, STD's, HIV Testing)
- Treatment Programs:
- 24-hour emergency care including responding to highway accidents with ambulance
- daily (5 days/week) walk-in/outpatient/clinic for primary care including dispensing specific medications
- visiting doctor clinics
- referrals
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