(Fort Smith, March 7, 2022) - Fort Smith Health Centre will be operating at normal service levels. Booked appointments will proceed and anyone who requires services should contact the health centre as usual. We thank the community for their understanding over the weekend while access was modified to ensure the safety of staff and the public.
(Yellowknife, March 3, 2022) – Due reduced staffing capacity caused by vacancies, in-school Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) services will remain suspended through the rest of the 2022 school year. Continuing with this service change will allow for continuity of travel clinics in smaller NWT communities, and for a focus on providing services to children who will soon age out of eligibility for speech language therapy.
(Yellowknife, March, 1, 2022) – Starting April 1st, 2022 the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority will be the operator of the sobering centre located on 50th street in Yellowknife. This change takes effect when the contract with the current operator, the NWT Disabilities Council (NWTDC), ends on March 31st 2022.
This change is intended to be in place for 6 months while a request for proposal process is undertaken to find an operator for the centre.
Yellowknife (January 10th, 2021) – As the NTHSSA continues the response to COVID-19, services are being re-opened to the public. Yellowknife Primary Care Clinic (YPCC) will be reopening its Lab Services on January 10th and Diagnostic Imaging Services on January 12th, 2022.
Laboratory Services:
The new clinic hours for Laboratory Services will be as follows:
Mon-Fri, 09:00-16:00 (except statutory Holidays) & Closed for lunch 11:45-12:30.
Yellowknife (December 6, 2021) – On the morning of December 6th, 2021, the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority opened a new Temporary Day Shelter at the former site of Yellowknife Visitors Centre. This facility and the services offered within will support homeless members of the Yellowknife community.
(Yellowknife, November 30) - With the continued decrease in COVID-19 activity in all regions across the NWT and in accordance with the COVID-19 Management Policy for Long Term Care Facilities, changes to Alert Levels are as follows:
(Yellowknife, December 1) – NTHSSA would like to inform residents of Yellowknife that a low-stimulus environment vaccination clinic will be hosted for children ages 5-11, from 9:30am-3:00pm on Sunday, December 5th. The clinic will be held at the Stanton Medical Centre, which is located in the building next to Booster Juice/McDonalds.
(Yellowknife, October 27, 2021) – As part of ongoing day shelter support services, a temporary shelter space opened at the Yellowknife Community Arena on Monday, October 25th. This shelter will be operating seven days a week from 7:00am-6:30pm each day, providing services that include meals, outreach nursing, showers, case management, and cultural and support programming.
YELLOWKNIFE (October 26, 2021) - The Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority (NTHSSA) has launched DetectNWT, a new community-based COVID-19 screening program. This program empowers organizations and businesses to administer rapid screening tests to employees in their workplaces.
YELLOWKNIFE (October 21, 2021) – As local businesses, employers, and organizations start to require vaccine proof for access to services the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority (NTHSSA) is seeing an increase in requests for vaccine exemptions.
There are two reasons a medical vaccine exemption would be issued to a resident:
