Indigenous Liaison Nurses (ILNs) can advocate on your behalf, helping you access referrals, benefit information and more with ease.
Indigenous 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 Spiritual Health as requested
- support for you and your family during a hospital stay
- understand health care issues
As an Indigenous 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 Indigenous Liaison Nurses
North Island
Alert Bay
Namgis Health Centre
Campbell River
Nadine Kruger, ILN
250-286-7100 ext. 67305
Cell: 250-830-8865
Fax: 250-286-7177
Nadine.Kruger@islandhealth.ca
Comox
Laurel Anderson, ILN
250-331-5900 ext. 65308
Cell: 250-650-5714
laurel.anderson@islandhealth.ca
Emily Mark, Weekend ILN
250-331-5900 ext. 65308
Cell: 250-527-0139
emily.mark@islandhealth.ca
Mt. Waddington
Port Hardy Hospital
Vacant
Violet Alfred, IPN
250-702-5614
Fax: 250-902-6030
violet.alfred@islandhealth.ca
Central Island
Nanaimo Hospital
Louise Dexter, ILN (Friday to Sunday)
250-755-7691 ext. 52095
Cell: 250-741-4234
Fax: 250-755-3361
louise.dexter@islandhealth.ca
Joanne van Engelsdorp (Monday to Thursday)
250-755-7691 ext. 52095
Cell: 250-883-3010
Fax: 250-755-3361
Joanne.vanengelsdorp@islandhealth.ca
Miranda Borrelli, ILN, NRGH ED
250-713-8184
Miranda.borrelli@islandhealth.ca
Port Alberni
West Coast General Hospital
Deb Melvin, LPN / Claudette Watts, ILN
Deb Melvin (Monday to Thursday) Claudette Watts (Friday)
250-723-1390 ext. 48109
Cell: 250-735-4319
Fax: 250-731-1342
Deb.Melvin@islandhealth.ca or Deb.Melvin@nuuchahnulth.org
claudette.watts@islandhealth.ca
Linda Smith, LPN (Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
Nurse Navigator
250-724-5757 ext. 280
Cell: 250-731-5392
Becki Nookemis, BA (Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
Client Navigator
250-724-5757 ext. 264
Cell: 250-735-3033
Tofino General Hospital
Jessica Kozan, ILCTN (Wednesday to Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
250-725-4010 ext. 64143
Cell: 250-619-5161
Fax: 250-725-4012
Jessica.Kozan@islandhealth.ca
Cowichan District Hospital
Danny Pasichnyk, ILCTN, (Thursday to Monday, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.)
250-727-2030 ext. 45682
Cell: 250-589-8256
Danny.Pasichnyk@islandhealth.ca
South Island
Saanich Peninsula Hospital
Jane Fox, RN BScN
250-652-7590 ext. 27590
Cell: 778-677-0774
Fax: 250-652-7547
jane.fox@islandhealth.ca
Lucia Bartleman, IPN
250-217-6407
Lucia.Bartleman@islandhealth.ca
Victoria General Hospital
Cody Kirkpatrick, ILN (Saturday to Monday)
Phone: 250-727-4543
Cell: 250-217-0934
Fax: 250-519-1524
Cody.Kirkpatrick@islandhealth.ca
Catherine Condy, ILN (Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.)
250-516-9394
Fax: 250-519-1524
Catherine.Condy@islandhealth.ca
Simi Ono, ILN (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m.)
Royal Jubilee Hospital
Selina Bickle, ILN
250-370-8847 x18447
Cell: 250-580-4922
selina.bickle@islandhealth.ca
CASUALS
Alexandra Copley
Alexandra.Copley@islandhealth.ca
Laura Whitaker
Laura.Whitaker@islandhealth.ca