CFNR Network
Mar 8, 2021 6:44 PM
A Virtual Town Hall will be held on March 9 from 11 to 11:45 a.m. talking about innovations enabling Indigenous Elder-led cultural care.
The virtual town hall will be moderated by Cassidy Carbon and will feature, Drew Kostyniuk, Nurse Practitioner, Kilala Lelum; Leah Walker, Kilala Lelum Executive Director; Wendall Williams, Kilala Lelum Knowledge Keeper; and Nimtaz Kanji, TELUS Director of Community Investment and Corporate Citizenship.
They will be discussing Vancouver’s Indigenous, underserved residents living in the Downtown Eastside. This is following the launch of the Kilala Lelum Mobile Health Clinic. You can also check out the entire livestream on CFNR Network’s Facebook page.
Kilala Lelum / Telus Health Virtual Town Hall
Indigenous Health Today by NationTalk, in partnership with TELUS Health and Kilala Lelum Health Centre, presents a Virtual Town Hall discussing the need for trauma-informed, Indigenous-focused healthcare to better serve Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Following the recent launch of the Kilala Lelum Mobile Health Clinic powered by TELUS Health, Indigenous Health Today by Nation Talk is pleased to host a Virtual Town Hall on March 9, 2021 at 11:00am, PST to shine light on the importance of Indigenous-centred healthcare in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
WHO: Indigenous Health Today by NationTalk in partnership with TELUS Health & Kilala Lelum Health Center
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in Toronto, the clinic will offer COVID-19 testing and vaccination in areas of high positivity rates
Telus has launched mobile clinics in both Toronto and Vancouver.
This is part of the company’s mobile Health for Good clinic program that involves a partnership with the Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre and University Health Network Social Medicine Program in Toronto, and the Kilala Lelum Mobile Health Centre in Vancouver.
The Parkdale Queen West Mobile Health Clinic and Kilala Lelum Mobile Health Clinic, both powered by Telus Health, are specially equipped clinics on wheels that aim to provide “trauma-informed, culturally-sensitive primary medical treatments, Indigenous Elder-led cultural care, mental health services, and addiction,” to the citizens of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the mid-west region of Toronto.