Mobile Care for Screening and Treatment
The Strengthening Primary Care program brought together 20 teams of primary care providers, organizations and communities from northern, rural and remote communities across Canada to improve access to primary care.
- Topics
- Primary and community care
- First Nations, Inuit and Métis priorities
- Cultural Safety
- Audience
Healthcare leader
Community organization
Point of care provider
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With support from the program, the teams introduced promising practices — approaches that improved access to safe, including culturally safe, team-based primary care — by meeting the unique needs of communities, patients and providers while encouraging collaboration and shared learning across Canada. One of the 20 teams (Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services) advanced five unique promising practices to respond to the needs of people and providers throughout their province.
About this Promising Practice
Rural, remote and northern communities in Labrador experience inequitable access to sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBI) education, screening, treatment and follow-up.
A mobile team including physicians, nurse practitioners, laboratory staff, and Opioid Dependence Treatment team members deliver culturally safe, wrap-around services including:
Harm reduction education and supplies.
Point-of-care (POC) testing, and onsite specimen collection.
Treatment and follow-up as necessary
Program: Strengthening Access to Primary Care in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities
Location: Labrador West & Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland & Labrador