Health

Ts'ewulhtun Health Centre

Ts'ewulhtun Health Departments

Community Health & Wellness Plan 2024-2034

Ts’ewulhtun Health Centre is pleased to share our Community Health and Wellness Plan. It is a document that can adapt to changing needs. The plan will guide the programs and services we offer to support the health and well-being of Quw’utsun citizens over the next 10 years.

OUR HEALTH. OUR WAY. JOIN US ON THIS JOURNEY.

Our culture is healing. We have our own ways of being and knowing. This plan reflects opportunities where we can work together to transform our future and to take care of our health in our own Quw’utsun way.

The plan will guide the programs and services we offer to support the health andwell being of Quw’utsun citizens over the next 10 years. The plan can also adapt to changing needs.

“We are sharing this Community Health and Wellness Plan with the vision of bringing back self-determination over our health after generations of experiencing the impacts of colonial disruption.”

- Cowichan Tribes Health Advisory Committee

Contact

5768 Allenby Road
Duncan, BC V9L 5J1

Phone: 250-746-6184

Fax: 250-748-8815 (Ts'ewulhtun Health Centre & Medical Transportation)

Fax: 250-715-3349 (Confidential Nurse Fax for Hwialusmutul' Community Health)

Email: Health@CowichanTribes.com

Mission Statement

Ts’ewulhtun Health Centre promotes a strong, healthy community. In the spirit of cooperation, from the wisdom of our elders, we will put into practice traditional and non-traditional ways to achieve an emotional, spiritual, mental, and physical well-being.

About Us

Ts’ewulhtun Health Centre began operation in 1992. It manages public health and communicable disease control for Cowichan Tribes, and provides health education programs. Other administrative services include:

Birth registration
Applications to the Elders Program
Elders Tobacco Tax (Funeral subsidies)
Youth Tobacco Tax

Health care programs are funded by First Nations Health Authority, and long-term care services are funded by Aboriginal Affairs Northern Development Canada (AANDC). Funding for other programs and services comes from the Band’s own-source revenue and provincial grants for youth.

A Health Advisory Committee, as appointed by Chief and Council, oversees the budget and major expenditures, monitors programs, and recommends new programs to address community health needs. Day-to-day operations are managed by the Health Director, supported by approximately 80+ full-time, part-time, casual, and contract employees. An Environmental Health Officer conducts evaluations, inspections, and advisory services related to public health.