A collaboration agreement's been signed by Sudbury's hospital and an organization offering Indigenous health services in Northeastern Ontario.
Maamwesying North Shore Community Health Services - as a core partner of the Maamwesying Ontario Health Team - has signed the agreement with Health Sciences North, intended to transform health care for Indigenous peoples "by embracing their unique cultural knowledge, traditional practices, medicines, and improving access and awareness of Indigenous Health Services available in the North East Region".
The Maamwesying Ontario Health Team was announced last October, to integrate health care services for clients in communities including the Michipicoten, Brunswick House, Chapleau Cree, and Chapleau Ojibwe First Nations, as well as the urban Indigenous population in Sault Ste. Marie.