Moose Factory - Healthcare

Healthcare

Originally designed as a tuberculosis hospital serving both First Nations and Inuit patients, today Weeneebayko General Hospital provides medical services to Moose Factory, Moosonee as well as Fort Albany, Ontario, Attawapiskat First Nation, Kashechewan First Nation and Peawanuck First Nation. The medical staff (consisting of 12 family physicians, 1 anesthetist and 1 surgeon) work with their tertiary care facilities in Kingston, ON, Toronto, ON and Timmins, ON. Weeneebayko General Hospital is also the only island hospital in Ontario.

The hospital provides various specialized services:

• 24 hour emergency services
• family medicine clinics
• occupational and rehabilitative services
• general surgery and anesthesia
• dialysis
• traditional healing program (with counselors and traditional healers)
• regularly scheduled specialities including: pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, geriatics rheumatology, ophthalmology, rehabilitation and neurology
• diagnostic imaging (x-ray and ultra sound)
• laboratory services

Chartered aircraft "schedevacs" are used to provide patients with transportation to diagnostic tests (e.g. CT and MRI) and specialize care. Queen's University is the primary university link with many medical students completing placements at the hospital. However there are also associations with the University of Toronto, McMaster University and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.