Lesa Semmler

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, if I can get the ADM can explain that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I know that -- and I can speak to the region that I previously am from -- shortage of staffing and movement of nurses, movement of staff to different regions, you know, when we have -- whether we have an outbreak or, you know, I mean, or when there's -- there is, you know, different things going on in the community, we know some of our communities that have higher numbers of staff and when they're at a capacity when we can't get in nurses, we will move nurses around from one health centre to another and, you know. And more recently, you know, we find we have to...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, one of the things that we -- just so that people are aware, like, even the patients that are in the hospital that are at an altered level of care, they may not have as high needs as some people that are living in their homes and so they may not be priority. They also -- long-term care is -- it is the person's choice to go into long-term care and therefore this is one of the things that we are taking back and we are looking at because it's not only gridlock in -- I mean, they're not all altered level care. It's just in Stanton. They're in Hay River. I recently...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this funding was -- I believe has been around for a bit, and what it has been used historically was for training. Recently, most recently, this -- the portion of this funding was used to develop online training modules and so, therefore, you know, we all know in this House, you know, many of us have used virtual meeting spaces, virtual tools to do a lot of our meetings. You know, I have meetings on many things right across Canada with other health Ministers. The other piece of this is that this work on the modules, training modules, are fully paid for, so...

Thank you. I will have the ADM answer that exact question.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, based -- I mean, I'm not going to go into the details of the program here right now. I mean, I know that, as we said, we will be doing the review. Somebody who's paying $4,000 in a deductible is probably at the top end of the grid, and the bands were -- you know, I mean, I think the lowest band is $58,000 a year for, I think, band 10 that we talked about last year, and it's also based on how many people are in their household. You know, if there's -- if there's an adult. If there's children, then that's taken in account of what -- and it's based on their take...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, you know, I think with what happened with the reduced services and what happened within Yellowknife, we've had a couple of times where we've had reduced services in the public health unit and where they've had to focus their staff were to make -- ensuring that, you know, children immunizations, routine immunizations were being completed, as well as working on the TB situation that we currently had. As well as they've had vacancies. However, I do know that there are some -- they are in the process of bringing on some new staff in that area. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I think within this last week is when they started to -- the process of it of admitting patients -- or residents into the long-term care beds. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we do have community health workers in the health cabins, and they have some minimal training to be able to do the minimal assessment - temperature, blood pressure, and then they will consult with -- and I believe Kakisa is through Fort Providence. And so if there is -- and if they believe that they get approval and they need to travel or they either wait until the nurse travels to Kakisa, and if they need to travel sooner than if they get approval, then if they have to drive they can claim their kilometers or, you know, like, through that process. I can get...

Thank you. No, it's not.