Clinic Services
Physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses and a broad range of other staff deliver primary health care through four Yellowknife clinics.
| Family Medical Clinic | Gibson Medical Clinic |
| Frame Lake Community Health Clinic | Great Slave Community Health Clinic |
Services include:
- Health promotion, including healthy lifestyle promotion, maternal health, reproductive and child care and community development.
- Health protection and preventative services, including screening, intervention disease control, prevention of injury, prevention of chronic diseases and addictions, hearing and vision, early intervention.
- Emergency, acute and diagnostic services, including crisis response.
- Continuing care, including palliative care and long-term care.
- Developmental rehabilitation and support services, including mental health and addictions.
- Obstetrics, emergency room coverage, inpatient care, surgical assists and GP anaesthesia at Stanton Territorial Hospital (STH).
- Medical direction to other agencies, such as Aven Manor, City of Yellowknife - Fire Department.
- Regular physician visits to communities in the region, to other communities in the NWT and to selected communities in the Nunavut Territory.
