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School Oral Health Services at Brooks Community Health Centre

Preventive dental health services are offered to students in Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2 to prevent tooth decay.

Eligibility

AHS (Alberta Health Services) health zones partner with schools in low income neighborhoods to provide preventive dental services at school.

How to access this service

Information about services along with a consent form is sent home to all students in eligible schools. A parent or legal guardian signature is required for service.

Accessibility

Wheel chair access available.

Address

440 3rd Street
Brooks Alberta
T1R 1B3

Telephone

403-501-3312

Website

Getting there

Wayfinding information not currently available.

Other services

Service hours

Hearing screening is offered every other Wednesday and is available by appointment only.

Multiple Languages

Yes
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Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program

The program aims to identify permanent hearing loss early and provide necessary follow-up services and support to families when needed.

Services include:

  • Screening babies for hearing loss by one month of age
  • Diagnostic assessment, if needed, by three months of age
  • Access to follow-up services and support, if needed, by six months of age

For more information, visit our website

Telephone

403-501-3333

Service Hours

Monday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm.
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm.
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm.
Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm.
Friday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm.

Service language options

Languages other than English in which this service may be delivered.

Eligibility

All babies born in Alberta, or born to parents residing in Alberta are eligible for screening within 90 days of birth.

Additional eligibility requirements exist based on the baby’s age and health status.

Multiple Languages

Yes
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Fluoride Protection for Toddlers

Children only need to have a few teeth to start getting fluoride. Applications are given 4 times, once every 6 months. For eligibility information visit our website.

At the appointment:

  • The child sits on their parent's lap while staff apply fluoride on the child's teeth using a brush, which takes less than a minute.
  • The child can eat and drink right after the treatment.
  • The fluoride sticks to the teeth and protects them. It slowly wears off when the teeth are brushed.

If the child has asthma, bring his or her asthma reliever medicine to the appointment.
This provincial prevention service is available in all AHS (Alberta Health Services) zones.

Telephone

403-501-3312

Service language options

Languages other than English in which this service may be delivered.

Low German interpretation is available in South and Central Zones.

Wait Times

Yes

Multiple Languages

Yes
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General Radiography (X-Ray)

General Radiography uses x-rays to produce images of the structures inside the body, particularly bones. X-ray beams can pass through the body, but they are absorbed in different amounts depending on the density of the material they pass through.

Telephone

403-793-6670

Service Hours

Sunday: 7:30 am - 12:00 am.
Monday: 7:30 am - 12:00 am.
Tuesday: 7:30 am - 12:00 am.
Wednesday: 7:30 am - 12:00 am.
Thursday: 7:30 am - 12:00 am.
Friday: 7:30 am - 12:00 am.
Saturday: 7:30 am - 12:00 am.

Service language options

Languages other than English in which this service may be delivered.

Wait times

An estimated wait time will be provided at the time of appointment booking.

Multiple Languages

Yes
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Population Health Promotion Program

The Population Health Promotion Program (PHPP) provides services on an individual client basis as well as to high-risk groups and the broad community utilizing a population health approach. The population health approach focuses on the entire range of individual and community factors that determine health. The Key ”Determinants of Health” include: Income and Social Status, Social Support Networks, Education and Literacy, Employment and Working Conditions, Social Environments, Physical Environments, Personal Health Practices and Coping Skills, Healthy Child Development, Biology and Genetic Endowment, Health Services, Gender, Culture.

The overall goal of this approach is to maintain and improve the health status of the entire population, reduce the incidence of disease and injury, and to eliminate inequities in health status between population groups.

Services encompass a continuum of health action from pre-conception to old age. Specific strategies are in line with those described in the World Health Organization’s Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986) and include:

  • Developing Personal Skills
  • Strengthening Community Action
  • Creating Supportive Environments
  • Building Healthy Public Policy
  • Community Needs Assessment and Program Planning

The program links with Provincial Population and Public Health Programs to deliver a wide range of health promotion interventions, including:

  • Oral Health Program
  • Injury Prevention
  • Tobacco Reduction
  • Health Equity
  • Poverty Reduction Initiatives
  • Health Promotion Education
  • Population Health Surveillance

Service Hours

Monday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm.
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm.
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm.
Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm.
Friday: 8:00 am - 4:15 pm.

Service language options

Languages other than English in which this service may be delivered.

Prenatal Education | 403-501-3300

Wait Times

Yes
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Prenatal Education

Group classes are offered on evenings or weekends. It is best to start the classes early in your pregnancy.

Classes provide information about:

  • physical and emotional changes in pregnancy
  • eating well and other lifestyle choices for you and your baby
  • getting ready for birth
  • birthing choices
  • preparing for feeding your baby
  • becoming a new parent
  • giving your baby a good start

Telephone

403-501-3300

Service Hours

Monday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Friday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.

Wait times

An estimated wait time will be provided at the time of appointment booking.

Fees

Fees may apply for some classes.



Fee Reductions

Fees may be waived depending on individual circumstances. Please discuss when you call to register.

Public Health Nursing | 403-501-3300

Wait Times

Yes

Multiple Languages

Yes
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Public Health Nursing

The four areas that are covered by public health nurses include:

  • maternal, child and family health
  • communicable disease control
  • school health
  • health promotion

Telephone

403-501-3300

Service Hours

Monday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Friday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.

Service language options

Languages other than English in which this service may be delivered.

Wait times

Wait times vary.

Fees

There are fees for prenatal and travel health service.

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School Oral Health Services

Services are offered to eligible schools and may include:

  • fluoride varnish, provided to kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2
  • dental sealants, provided to Grade 1 and Grade 2

A child diagnosed with asthma must have their short acting asthma reliever medication with them to receive service.

Telephone

403-501-3312

Eligibility

AHS (Alberta Health Services) health zones partner with schools in low income neighborhoods to provide preventive dental services at school.

Multiple Languages

Yes
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Speech, Language and Hearing - Infant, Preschool, School-age and Adult Services

Services offered:

  • speech and language assessments, therapy, and consultation
  • hearing screening for all ages
  • newborn hearing screening (Early Hearing Detection and Intervention)
  • Hanen and related training (upon request)
  • home programming
  • speech or language therapy groups
  • swallowing and feeding assessments (environmental, fiberoptics video fluoroscopy)
  • voice therapy and vocal hygiene
  • stuttering treatment
  • after-stroke communication therapy
  • language therapy (example: aphasia)
  • in-services for professionals, support staff, or family
  • augmentative communication device trials / assessment (low tech, mid tech, high tech authorization status)
  • low, medium, and high-tech speech generating communication device assessment

Feeding and swallowing services:

  • Bedside swallowing screenings at the hospital or mealtime observations to assess feeding and swallowing.
  • Anyone can refer feeding and swallowing concerns when they see the following when eating/drinking:

- coughing / choking
- breathing changes / gasping
- watering eyes
- sweating
- face becomes red
- won’t eat or drink certain food or fluids

Telephone

403-501-3308

Service language options

Languages other than English in which this service may be delivered.

Eligibility

A delay or disorder in the area of communication for individual services.

Open eligibility for training, inservicing or universal services.

Travel Health Services | 403-501-3300

Wait Times

Yes

Multiple Languages

Yes
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Travel Health Services

Promotes awareness of the possible risk of communicable disease when travelling and ways to prevent them. Travel Health can also give travel immunizations. Not all services are offered at all locations. The services below are offered on a fee-for-service basis:

  • information on health risks according to country or region
  • required and recommended vaccines
  • information about preventing travel-related illnesses

Book your appointment at least 6 to 8 weeks before you leave to make sure there is enough time to have all your immunizations.

For more information visit our webpage

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Telephone

403-501-3300

Service Hours

Monday: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm.
Tuesday: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm.
Wednesday: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm.
Thursday: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm.
Friday: 8:30 am - 1:00 pm.

Service language options

Languages other than English in which this service may be delivered.

Wait times

Wait times vary for an appointment.

Fees

There are fees associated with Travel Services and may range from an average of $48.00 to $200.00 per person.

Tuberculosis Testing | 403-501-3300

Wait Times

Yes

Multiple Languages

Yes
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Tuberculosis Testing

 

Offers free tuberculosis (TB) skin testing to eligible Albertans. The Mantoux skin test is not recommended to diagnose TB.

Testing is done at public health centres throughout the province:

If you are not eligible for free testing but still need to be tested there will be a charge for the test.

 

For travel or work related TB testing contact the Travel Health Services in your area. With the exception of Edmonton, you would contact the Immunization Business Unit to have school or work-related TB skin testing done.

 

Telephone

403-501-3300

Service Hours

Monday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Tuesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Wednesday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.
Friday: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm.

Service language options

Languages other than English in which this service may be delivered.

Eligibility

Eligibility includes:

  • recent contact with known TB cases
  • people with medical conditions/therapies that increase risk of progressing from latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) to active TB (HIV/AIDS, transplantation, on dialysis for chronic renal failure, silicosis, cancer of the head and neck, being treated with immunosuppressive drugs)
  • all refugees less than age 50 who are from a country where TB is common AND who have immigrated here in the last 2 years
  • foreign-born children up to and including age 14 who have lived in a country where TB is common AND who have immigrated here within the past 2 years

Wait times

Wait times vary.

Fees

 

There is a charge for anyone not meeting the eligibility criteria.