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Aboriginal Liaison Nurses (ALNs) can advocate on your behalf, helping you access referrals, benefit information and more with ease.
Aboriginal Liaison Nurses can help
- access non-insured health benefits as needed
- access to the All Nations' Healing Room in the Patient Care Centre
- discharge planning and communication with community contacts
- get a hardship parking pass for one family member
- refer you to community services
- refer you to Pastoral Care as requested
- support for you and your family during a hospital stay
- understand health care issues
As an Aboriginal patient, you have a right to
- ask questions about your health care
- be acknowledged as an individual
- be cared for in a respectful, dignified and culturally safe manner by health care professionals
- be consulted and actively participate in decisions about your health care
- freedom from verbal, physical and sexual abuse, or neglect
- get a second opinion from another doctor
- privacy and confidentiality of your health information
- request access to the information in your health record
- refuse to have students, residents and other training present during your appointment or examination
- refuse treatment, unless you have a serious communicable disease that could harm other people such as TB or Syphilis
General Information on Aboriginal Liaison Nurses
Referral Required?
Not required
Contact Us
Alert Bay
Rachel Fulmore, BSN, RN
rachel.fulmore@viha.ca
Phone: 250-974-5522 ext. 2130
Cell: 250-974-7126
Fax: 250-974-2698
Campbell River
Campbell River General ALN Brochure
Nadine Kruger, RN
Phone: 250-286-7100 ext. 67305
Cell: 250-830-8865
Fax: 250-286-7177
Email: Nadine.Kruger@viha.ca
Comox
Comox Valley Hospital ALN Brochure
Laurel Anderson, RN
Phone: 250-331-5900 ext. 65308
Cell: 250-650-5714
Email: laurel.anderson@viha.ca
Cowichan District
Cowichan District Hospital ALN Brochure
Helen Dunlop, RN
C/O Ts'ewultun Health Centre
Phone: 250-746-6184 ext. 321
Cell: 250-709-8204
Email: helen.dunlop@cowichantribes.com
Mt. Waddington
VACANT, MPH, BScN, RN(c)
C/O Port Hardy Health Unit / Port Hardy Hospital
Cell: 250-949-0340
Phone: 250-902-6011 ext: 66985
Fax: 250-902-6030
Email: rebecca.olesen@viha.ca
Nanaimo
Nanaimo Regional General Hospital ALN Brochure
C/O Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre
Carol Nelson, RN
Phone: 250-755-7691 ext.52095
Cell: 250-741-4234
Email: carol.nelson@viha.ca
Port Alberni
Westcoast General Hospital ALN Brochure
Monday to Friday: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Laurie Sinclair, LPN
Email: laurie.sinclair@viha.ca
Phone: 250-731-1370 Ext: 48109
Cell: 250-720-5974
Saturday to Sunday: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Benedict Leonard, RN(P)
Email: benedict.leonard@viha.ca
Phone: 250-731-1370 ext: 48109
Cell: 250-735-4319
Fax: 250-731-1342
Nuu-chah-nulth Community & Human services
Saanich
Saanich Peninsula Hospital ALN Brochure
Jane Fox, RN BScN
Phone: 250-652-7590
Cell: 778-677-0774
Fax: 250-652-7547
Email: jane.fox@viha.ca
Tofino
Tofino General Hospital CTLN Brochure
Sarah Gordon
Email: sarah.gordon@viha.ca
Lauren Vanderploeg
Email: lauren.vanderploeg@viha.ca
Phone: 250-725-4010 ext. 64143
Cell: 250-735-1014
Fax: 250-725-4012
Victoria
Victoria Hospitals ALN Brochure
Monique Pat, RPN
Phone: 250-519-1905
Cell: 250-480-8333
Fax: 250-519-1524
Email: monique.pat@viha.ca
Cathy Condy, RN
Phone: 250-370-8847
Cell: 250-812-1464
Fax: 250-519-1524
Email: catherine.condy@viha.ca