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Community-Based Emergency Care: An Open Report for Nishnawbe Aski Nation
No full textThis report summarizes the learnings of the Community-Based Emergency Care Roundtable, a two-day multi-jurisdictional meeting
held in October 2013 in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss and address pre-nursing station
emergency care needs in remote and isolated First Nation communities in Ontario. Representatives of First Nations’ governance and
community organizations, Ontario Provincial and Canadian Federal governments, nursing and paramedical services, and
non-governmental organizations joined together to develop shared understandings and a vision for the future of emergency care in
remote and isolated settings. This report offers a Vision, Key Recommendations and Guiding Principles with which to improve
emergency care for all injured and ill people in remote and isolated First Nation communities in Nishnawbe Aski Nation
