WESTERN HEALTH

Western Health accomplishes their mandate through six lines of business: promoting health and well-being; preventing illness and injury; providing supportive care; treating illness and injury; providing rehabilitative services; administering distinctive provincial programs. Programs and services that promote health and well-being include health promotion and health protection activities. Preventing illness and injury occurs through early intervention and use of the best possible information as with screening and injury prevention activities. Programs and services that provide supportive care include: community health nursing; community supportive services; maternal, child and family health; long term care and residential services; mental health and addictions. Programs and services that treat illness and injury are primary and secondary in nature and include ambulatory care, emergency, maternal, medical, pediatric and surgical services. Rehabilitation services such as physiotherapy,..

Primary location: Canada