Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Stanton Territorial Hospital is an $80 million, 500 staff facility. It is our major tertiary care facility. The Member is correct; there is a high percentage of aboriginal population who use the service and we have been working with Stanton, with some of the MLAs over the last number of months and have been getting advice from elders across the Northwest Territories about how we can start to better incorporate traditional healing practices and wellness approaches into Stanton hospital. There has been a lot of work done. We've taken the time to go to other jurisdictions that have done interesting things like Whitehorse, like Sioux Lookout, we have been down to look at the Royal Alex in Edmonton. We are going to be bringing together an advisory group of elders who are going to sit down with Stanton and we are going to start mapping out some of the things we can do more effectively, keeping in mind that we already have a lot of good things underway in terms of interpreter services, the wild foods that we bring in and there are 15 aboriginal nurses now operating in Stanton, which is a real asset. So we want to continue to improve that service. The Member has been involved with the Social Programs committee and we are going to continue on that path. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 85-15(5): Aboriginal Wellness Services Available At The Stanton Territorial Hospital
In the Legislative Assembly on June 8th, 2006. See this statement in context.
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Question 85-15(5): Aboriginal Wellness Services Available At The Stanton Territorial Hospital
Item 7: Oral Questions
June 7th, 2006
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