A pop-up health clinic is set to take place at Galt Gardens on Friday, September 23, 2022. (Photo: J. Goulet-LNN)

By Justin Goulet

Alberta Health Services

AHS to host pop-up health clinic at Galt Gardens

Sep 22, 2022 | 7:43 AM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – A pop-up health clinic is coming to Lethbridge on Friday.

From 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on September 23, 2022, Alberta Health Services (AHS) and its partner agencies will host the pop-up clinic at Galt Gardens. AHS says the goal is to bring several programs and services directly to Lethbridge’s “urban Indigenous population”.

In a news release, AHS stated that the organization “believes in the importance of understanding culture and ceremony as part of person-centred care.”

“Offering culturally sensitive care in unique ways is also part of the calls to action in the findings from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.”

Participants/services available will include:

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• Family Centre
• Boys and Girls Club
• Home Base and Community Links
• Lethbridge Legal Aid
• Lethbridge Public Library
• Lethbridge Family Services
• Alpha House, education and referrals
• Opokaa’sin Early Intervention Association
• Sik-Oo-Kotoki Friendship Society
• Building Better Brains
• Chinook Sexual Assault Centre
• Blood Tribe Dept. of Health – Kainai Diabetes Team, Community Health Services
• Aakom Kiyii Health (Piikani) Nutrition Services
• Primary care physicians from Blood Tribe Health and AHS South Zone, providing on-site walk-in doctor’s appointments
• AHS Indigenous Health
• AHS Addiction and Mental Health, Education and Referrals (addition counselling, opioid agonist therapy, etc)
• AHS Population Health Promotion, Tobacco Reduction and Injury Prevention education
• Sexually transmitted/blood-borne infections (STBBI) education and referrals
• AHS oral health education and referrals
• AHS public health nursing
• Better Beginnings prenatal program
• Vaccine referrals
• AHS Alberta Healthy Living Program chronic pain education and referrals
• AHS nurse practitioner liver screening onsite
• AHS Home Care
• On-site lab services (as ordered by physician or nurse practitioner)
• AHS kidney check program health screening
• AHS palliative care – Lethbridge and southwest Alberta, education and referrals
• The Man Van, Alberta cancer screening
• Optometrist, eye exams
• Jordan’s Principle (Govt. of Canada, First Nations child advocacy) education and referrals

Additionally, a powwow will take place at the same time at Galt Gardens. AHS notes that pop-up clinics have been developed based on the findings of Innovative Models Promoting Access to Care Transformation (IMPACT). IMPACT is a research study that explored how to deliver care to individuals who otherwise have limited or no access to traditional healthcare.

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