Skip to content
Strategic Goals

Big Horn Health Services remains committed to acting in the best interests of the people we serve and is guided by the following strategic priorities to achieve our goals:

Primary Care

  • Continue to increase access to primary care
  • Ensure timely immunizations and prenatal/postnatal care
  • Implement dedicated dietetic services for clients followed by the diabetic educator; improve education and management for those with diabetes
  • Obtain our Accreditation Status with Accreditation Canada.

Community Health & Wellness

  • Improve immunization rates for infants, pre-school, & school-aged children.
  • Utilize a community-based approach to address chronic disease issues, with a focus on increasing awareness of diabetes, its risk factors, complications, and prevention strategies in the Big Horn community.
  • Improve health outcomes associated with maternal, infant, child, and family health. Focus areas include prenatal health, postnatal health and newborn care, nutrition, early literacy and learning
  • Implement Aboriginal Head Start programs in Big Horn to maximize child development, especially for high-needs children, to prepare them for school entry.
  • Continue work on constructing the Big Horn Health Centre – funding already secured.
  • Support a multidisciplinary approach to communicable disease control for Big Horn Health Services, providing mandatory public health programs for children and youth.
  • Create a pain management program for people living with chronic pain.
  • Continue to expand healthcare services offered to the community, including dentistry, optometry, audiology, pharmacy, and medical laboratory services.
  • Continue education on, and work to decrease, child obesity rates.

Home & Community Care

  • Increase access to after-hours services.
  • Improve hospital to home discharge planning.
  • Implement & improve chronic disease management.
  • Increase Maternal-Child Health/Fetal Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Home Visitor visits.
  • Consolidate long-term, end-of-life and palliative care services.
  • Improve the effectiveness of the electronic health records system.
  • Initiate block funding to ensure more flexible use of funding.
  • Reduce ‘no-show’ rates for Big Horn Health Services to avoid disappointing clients waiting for services and allocate our resources more effectively and efficiently.
  • Continue to improve access to clean drinking water and safe housing

Addictions & Mental Health Services

  • Improve mental health case management process for persons with complex needs.
  • Consolidate collaborations between crisis support & mental health services.
  • Improve outreach support for opioid replacement therapy (ORT).
  • Improve outreach support for those seeking mental health services.

Crisis & Community Outreach Services

  • Integrate and streamline our Crisis Team with Mental Health Services.
  • Improve access to services near the Health Centre on-call & after-hours services.
  • Provide a safe and effective means of client transportation for Stoney residents, improve efficacy of our Medical Transportation program
  • Implement robust protocols in order to respond efficiently and compassionately to mental health crises.
  • Continue to improve access to Mental Health counselling and services
  • Improve client uptake and prioritisation at point-of-contact (‘no wrong door’).
  • Work with the community to develop transitional housing.
  • Work with the community to improve quality of housing for vulnerable clients.
  • Enhance working relationship with ambulance services available to the Big Horn community