Are you feeling bullied in a relationship? Concerned about someone who is being verbally or physically abused? Confidential, nonjudgmental advocacy services. No Charge.

Now providing mental health counseling; call for an appointment

To make therapy affordable, we use a sliding-fee scale.

The mission of the Oshki Manidoo “New Spirit” Center is to be a healing place with a holistic approach for Native American youth and non-Native American Youth to begin to embrace healthy behaviors and attitudes that will transform them, their families and communities.

Program emphasis includes substance use disorder, cultural foundations, physical wellness and strengthening family connections.

Youth will return to their community following successful discharge with a new outlook, understanding their importance as an integral part of the larger community, chemical free and able to sustain sobriety and continue their journey toward healthy living.

Operated by the White Earth Tribal Council

CHI St. Joseph’s Health Community Dental Clinic provides long-term, comprehensive dental care for people with state-provided insurance plans.

We Can Help You if You Have:

• State-approved insurance such as MnCare with dental coverage
• Medical Assistance
• Veteran’s Administration coverage with prior approval
• Reduced-rate dental care through WIC

Services:

• Exams, diagnostics, & treatment plans
• Restoration of diseased/decayed teeth
• Tooth removal
• Full & partial dentures
• Preventative services

Preventative services include cleanings, sealants on children’s molars, fluoride treatments, and oral hygiene instruction. When necessary our staff dentists complete surgical services on site or refer patients to the appropriate specialist.

Community Dental Clinic staff also provide outreach and education to students in area schools.

Northland Smiles strives to meet the needs of the greater community by offering In-House services. Our friendly staff are willing to answer any questions you may have about our services. From cleaning to surgery, we provide all the services without having to refer you to another clinic. This is an advantage for two reasons. One, there is no scheduling or transferring your file to another clinic and no wait time at another clinic. Two, because we take just about all insurances, so does most of our in house specialty work, this means you don’t have to hunt for that one dentist that takes your insurance.

Another factor is that Northland Smiles takes insurances that many other dental offices do not. This includes government funded health plans. Some patients can find it difficult to find a dental office taking their insurance and find it necessary to drive 2 to 3 hours to find someone who will. We are closing that gap.

Northland Smiles has an in-house denture laboratory. Dentures and partials are also processed there and the denture laboratory technicians are available for consultation with doctors.

At Northland Smiles we strive to have as many dental services in house as possible. This allows us to accept your unique insurance and still be able to perform the work needed. Please see below if the service you require is offered.

• Cosmetic Dentistry – Take home and in house Bleaching
• Endodontics – Root Canal
• Diagnostic – Exam, X-Ray, & Consultation
• Preventive treatment – Fluoride & Full Cleanings
• Restorative – Fillings
• Periodontal Treatments – Root Planing & Scaling
• Oral Surgery – Extractions
• Fixed Proths – Crowns & Bridgework
• Removable Proths – Dentures & Partials (REPAIRS ALSO)
• Periodontics – Gum Disease Diagnosis & Treatment
• Implants – Tooth Replacements Anchored in Jaw

Bagley

1656 Central Street West Bagley, MN 56621

218-694-2384

Blackduck 

81 1st Street NW, Blackduck MN 56630

218-835-4222

About Sanford Health

At Sanford Health, we are dedicated to the work of health and healing. Every day, we show that commitment by delivering the highest quality of care to the communities we serve. We are leaders in health care and strive to provide patients across the region with convenient access to expert medical care, leading-edge technologies and world-class facilities.

In addition to strong clinical care, we are also committed to research, education and community growth. We engage in medical research to not only discover innovative ways to provide care, but also cures for common diseases. We continuously seek new ways to achieve our vision of improving the human condition here in your community, across the region and around the world.

The entire team at Sanford Health recognizes the value of healthy families and communities. We continue to gain momentum and expand our reach. Together, we can make a positive difference now, and in the future.

Medical Services in Bemidji:

AirMed

Breastfeeding

Colorectal Screenings

Diabetes & Endocrinology

Areas Served

Leech Lake Reservation, Cass County, Beltrami County, Hubbard County & Itasca County

Title III. Congregate Meals

Meal provision to an elderly client or other eligible participant at a nutrition site, senior center or some other congregate setting.

Eligibility Requriements

Persons who are 60+ years of age or older and spouse, regardless of age and other eligible individuals.

Documents Requested

• Proof of age
• Proof of residency

Intake Procedure

Walk-in or call for more information

Fees

None, contributions are accepted.

Guests can eat for the cost of $4.50.

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Title III. Home Delivered Meals

Meal provision to an elder or other eligible participant at the client’s place of residence.

Eligibility Requriements

Home delivered meal recipients must be 60 years of age or older, home bound by reason of illness, disability or functional need, and unable to prepare their own meals. Meals may be made available to individuals with disabilities who reside in a non-institutional household with and are accompanied by an individual eligible for congregate meals.

Documents Requested

• Proof of age
• Proof of residency

Intake Procedure

Walk-in or call for more information

Fees

None, contributions are accepted.

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Title VI. Congregate and Home Delivered Meals

Eligibility will include enrolled members of any recognized tribe aged 55-59 years or over within the program service area. Eligibility will include spouse, handicapped or disabled individual in the same household of the eligible participant who accompany participant to a congregate site.

Documents Requested

• Proof of age
• Proof of residency

Intake Procedure

Walk-in or call for more information

Fees

None, contributions are accepted.

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Title VI. Part C – Caregiver Program

Hours 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Native American Family Caregiver Support Program Requirements

Native American Family Caregiver Support Program can serve two types of unpaid family caregivers:

1. Family caregivers: An adult family member, or another individual, who is an unpaid informal provider of in-home and community care to an older individual or to an individual with Alzheimer’s disease or a related disorder with neurological and organic brain dysfunction.
2. Grandparents or older individuals who are relative caregivers: A grandparent or step grandparent of a child, or relative of a child by blood marriage, or adoption, who is 55 years of age or older and
   • lives with the child;
   • is the primary caregiver of the child because the biological or adoptive parents are unable or unwilling to serve as the primary caregiver of the child; and
   • has a legal relationship to the child, as such legal custody or guardianship, or is raising the child informally.

The five required services are:

1. Information to caregivers about available services.
2. Assistance to caregivers in gaining access to services.
3. Individual counseling, organization of support groups, and caregivers training to assist the caregivers in the area of health, nutrition, and financial literacy, and in making decisions and solving problems relating to their caregiving roles.
4. Respite care to enable caregivers of frail elders to be temporarily and intermittently relieved from their cargiving responsibilities.
5. Supplemental services, on a limited basis, to caregivers of frail elders to complement the care provided by caregivers.

Documents Requested

• Proof of age
• Proof of residency

Intake Procedure

Walk-in or call for more information

Satellite Sites

The Cass Lake Indian Health Service Unit is owned and operated by the Federal Government as a Public Health Service, Indian Health Service Facility. It provides over 160 full-time jobs in the community. The Service Unit operates a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) and Outpatient Ambulatory Care Clinic that offers Medical, Dental, Pharmacy, Laboratory, Radiology, Physical Therapy, Audiology, Podiatry, and Optometry Services. Cass Lake IHS also provides 24/7 access to Urgent Care/Emergency Care services.

The Service Unit has an active user population of 12,265 clients. The CAH has 4 beds and 1 crib. In Fiscal Year 2014, we had 66 discharges, 379 patients days, 97,773 out-patient visits (includes UC/ER, Pharmacy, etc.) and 7,653 dental visits. The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe manages the Behavioral Health programs, Substance Abuse programs, a Diabetes Center and Public Health Nursing at six community based clinics on the reservation.

The Bemidji Area Office (BAO) provides service and support to 34 Federally-recognized Tribes and 4 Urban Indian Health programs located in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Tribal Health services are provided through 11 P.L. 93-638 Title V compacts and 23 Title I contracts. Urban Indian Health programs are located in Chicago, IL; Detroit, MI; Milwaukee, WI; and Minneapolis, MN. Tribes in the Bemidji Area include Ojibwe (Chippewa), Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Mohican, Oneida, Odawa, Potawatomi, and Sioux.

The BAO operates 3 Federal/direct service programs on behalf of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians and the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians of Minnesota. These Federal/direct service programs, Cass Lake Hospital, Red Lake Hospital, and White Earth Health Center, are staffed by approximately 500 federal civil service employees and Public Health Service (PHS) Commissioned Officers. These federal employees are comprised of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, laboratory technicians, radiology technicians, behavioral health practitioners, dentists, dental assistants, dental hygienists, optometrists, optical technicians, dietitians, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, physical therapists, engineers, sanitarians, equipment technicians, health information managers, administrators, acquisition, supply, finance, information technology and clerical staff. In addition, there are numerous specialty clinics provided in our Federal/direct service programs by local private health care specialists.

Tribal and Urban programs directly employ a multitude of health care providers and allied staff such as, mental health, substance abuse counselors, and community health nurses and representatives. Services not available through Tribal or BAO Federal/direct service programs may be delivered through Contract Health Services (CHS).

Havenwood….where residents are cared for without regard to age, sex, race, color, creed, religion, handicap, or national origin.  The Home is licensed by the State of Minnesota, certified for Medicare and Medicaid, and complies with all standards mandated by regulating agencies.

Havenwood Care Center (formerly Beltrami County Nursing Home) has a long history of caring for the elderly.  Originally, long-term care services were provided at the Lake Julia farm, 15 miles north of Bemidji.  From 1917 until 1968, that facility was one of the few in the region dedicated to the ill and aged who required long-term care.  In 1968, the old home was retired and a new 85 bed facility opened at our current location.  In 1974, a 48 bed addition extended capacity to 133 beds.  We currently utilize 90 beds.

Although the site has changed, the same dedication and spirit of love and understanding exists.  We continue our pledge to maintain the highest possible standards of nursing care and to provide social, recreational, intellectual, spiritual, physical and re-motivational activities specifically designed to meet individual needs.

Havenwood is a place where the joys, frustrations, and excitement of living are shared by residents and staff.

When caring for yourself or your loved one becomes too difficult, living alone is no longer appealing, mowing your own lawn, or making your own meals is too trying, contact us at GoldPine Home for a tour and personalized needs assessment.

As a state-certified assisted-living facility, we specialize in providing short-term and long-term care for community seniors who cannot or no longer want to live alone.

Philosophy of GoldPine Home

GoldPine Home believes that quality healthcare is a basic right.  We believe in providing an environment that focuses on resident choice and independence while maintaining safety and family involvement.  We see staff, residents, their families, and ourselves as a unique diverse family.  As with all families communication is key to a valuable united experience, so another focus is maintaining open lines of communication.  That said we strive to make necessary services available in a comprehensive, coordinated manner.  We will fulfill needs with our current staffing or contact other community services as needed.  To summarize, our total focus is on meeting the needs of our elders through compassionate and individualized care.

So, when you are looking for a 24-hour assisted-living facility, there is one company you can trust, GoldPine Home.  With our preplanned activities we guarantee you will have the time of your life.

24 hour on-site licensed staff
24 hours/day RN on call

Before child advocacy centers were created, child victims of crime often had to tell their stories to more than a dozen adults – police officers, prosecutors, doctors and social workers. They could be shuttled all over town giving depositions and getting medical exams. There was very little coordination between the various agencies. Consequently, children were traumatized repeatedly as they sought help. In some of the saddest cases, abused children simply fell through the cracks in the system that was supposed to save them. Likewise, prior to Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs and Family Violence Intervention Programs victims were experiencing long waits in the emergency room, a lack of privacy, nervous and unskilled examiners, insensitivity, and improper evidence collection or loss of evidence.

In 2005, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, North Country Health Services, MeritCare Clinic of Bemidji, Midwest Children’s Resource Center of Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of MN – St. Paul, MN and others joined to form a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to develop and operate a medical-model family violence center to serve the needs of Northern Minnesota.

FACNM is the only medical-model assessment center that currently exists in this region of the state. Moreover, the FACNM is one of the only centers in America to serve the needs of child sexual and physical abuse, adult sexual assault and domestic violence under one roof.

FACNM serves the entire ninth judicial district which includes the counties of Kittson, Roseau, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Polk, Norman, Mahnomen, Clearwater, Lake of the Woods, Beltrami, Hubbard, Koochiching, Itasca, Cass, Crow Wing, and Aitkin. In addition, the FACNM serves Red Lake, Leech Lake, and White Earth Reservations.

Today, all of the services needed by victims and their families – forensic interviews, medical exams, referrals and family support services – are clustered around one central location. FACNM is the hub where representatives from many disciplines meet to discuss and make decisions about the investigation, assessment, treatment and prosecution of victim related cases. They work together in the best interests of the victim, providing an immediate response and ongoing support to help children and families recover from the trauma of abuse or violence.

Our mission is to provide a quality and creative approach to individual and community based exercise programming to ultimately control and prevent diabetes in our community.

Also note: person(s) do not need to have Diabetes to use the fitness center.

Membership includes

• Orientation with fitness equipment – Those who have diabetes will have priority on any of the exercise machines
• Fitness assessments, personal exercise plans
• Personal training sessions
• Group exercise classes – Click here for current class schedule >
• Fitness challenges with incentives
• Annual memorial walk/run
• Monitor blood sugar pre/post exercise (if needed)
• Monitor blood pressure pre/post exercise (if needed)
• Help obtain medical clearance (if needed)
• Locker room with showers
• Pool use at Palace and Northern Lights Casinos

Eligibility Requirements

Open to all community members

Documents Requested

Medical Clearance – fitness staff will determine if person(s) need a medical clearance from their provider before fitness center use.

Those who do not qualify for a free membership will pay:

Fees are nonrefundable & nontransferable.

Method of payment

Cash or check

Gym Rules

• Diabetic clients have first priority on the equipment
• Use equipment at your own risk
• Sanitize equipment after use
• Return all equipment after use and re-rack your weights
• No horseplay allowed
• Appropriate footwear required while using equipment and lifting weights
• Know your limits; use a spotter as needed
• No gym bags, coats, etc. on gym floor; use lockers and coat rack
• Not responsible for lost or stolen items; locks available upon request
• No food allowed on the gym floor
• All liquids must be in containers with lids
• For safety reasons, no children under 10 allowed
• Be considerate of others

Code of Behavior

All fitness center participants are required to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner. Inappropriate language (swearing, derogatory terms, etc.), inappropriate behavior and harassment are not allowed on the premises. Proper use of the equipment is required. If you do not know how to operate the machines, the fitness staff will be happy to assist you. There is a zero tolerance policy when it comes to horseplay in the fitness center and on the machines. You will be asked to leave if you do not follow the Code of Behavior and Gym Rules!

Age Restrictions

• Children 13 and under must have an adult with to supervise them during each visit.
• Children 11 and under must have a medical clearance on file.
• For safety reasons, no children under 10 allowed.
• Young adults 14-17, who do not follow the Gym Rules and Code of Behavior, will need to have an adult accompany them on future visits.

Lockers/Showers

Lockers are available for your use while working out; there is no overnight storage. If you want to use a lock, you can sign one out, free of charge, from the Fitness Staff. Showers are also available. You must provide your own towel and shower supplies.

Pool Agreement

The Leech Lake Diabetes Fitness Program has an agreement with the Palace and Northern Lights Hotels for members of the Fitness Center to use their pools free of charge. You must obtain signed documents from the Fitness Staff to bring to the hotel. All rules and regulations of the hotel pool must be followed and will be enforced.

Medical Clearance

If the Health History Questionnaire identifies a medical condition, you must have a medical clearance to exercise. Please ask Fitness Staff for a blank copy of our medical clearance form for your medical provider to fill out.