Waterloo Region Nurse Practitioner Led Clinic (WRNPLC)
The Waterloo Region Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic (WRNPLC) is a primary care clinic that focuses on providing health promotion, disease prevention, chronic disease management, and care coordination for their patients. This innovative clinic provides a collaborative practice appraoch through a multidisciplinary team, including Registered Practical Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, collaborating Family Physicians, Social Workers and Pharmacists. The Waterloo Region Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic aims to provide comprehensive, accessible and coordinated health care services to their patients.
The WRNPLC partners with many different agencies throughout the region, including Rapid Access Medicine clinics (RAAM) at House of Friendship. As the primary partner with RAAM clinics, WRNPLC provides both in person and virtual Nurse Practitioner support and expertise to all Waterloo Region RAAM clinics. In addition, the WRNPLC works with Conestoga College to host Nursing and Health Informatics students during student placements, and is partnered with Starling Community Services to provide children’s mental health support to their younger patients and their families.
The WRNPLC hosts a RAAM clinic two days a week at their Cambridge site from 9:00am-4:00pm, with walk in support from 9:00am – 3:00pm.
For more information about the Waterloo Region Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic, please call 519-772-2322 or visit their website.
Pharmacy on King
Located at 702 King Street West, and a 5-minute walk from Monday’s GRH Clinic, Pharmacy on King provides support to participants who regularly access care at our Kitchener clinic locations. With a focus on individualized support and coordination, Pharmacy on King dispenses medications, provides injections, and works with its service users to provide a high level of pharmacological care.
Grand River Hospital
Grand River Hospital (GRH) has two campuses in the KW area, including Kitchener Waterloo Health Centre and Freeport Health Centre. Specialized services include cancer care, childbirth, children’s program, complex continuing care, critical care, emergency, medical imaging, medicine, mental health and addictions, pharmacy and lab, rehabilitation, renal, stroke, surgery and withdrawal management.
In addition to hospital services, GRH also operates a regional withdrawal management center near its KW Campus, at 52 Glasglow Street in Kitchener. GRH’s Withdrawal Management program offers non-medical management of withdrawal symptoms for men and women in a residential setting, and 24-hour monitoring and care for individuals who need a structured and/or protected setting in order to help abstain from substance use.
Grand River Hospital hosts a RAAM clinic at its Outpatient Mental Health building on Mondays from 9:00am-4:00pm, with walk in support from 9:00am -3:00pm.
For more information about GRH’s Withdrawal Management program, please call 519-749-4318, or visit their website.
Sanguen Health Services
Sanguen Health Services is a community-based health service organization who provides wrap-around support to those experiencing high degrees of marginalization as a result of their substance use, mental health, homelessness and chronic poverty. Sanguen Health Centre offers person centered care under a foundation of Harm Reduction. Programs include their Mobile Community Health Van, Vaccinations, Naloxone Training, Peer Support, Hepatitis Testing, Individual & Group Counselling, Specialized Nursing Care and more.
Sanguen hosts a RAAM clinic at their Consumption and Treatment Services (CTS) site each Thursday from 9:00am – 3:00pm, with walk in support from 9:00am-2:30pm.
For more information about Sanguen Health Services, please visit their website.