Hospitals and Health Centres

The Dryden Regional Health Centre (DRHC) offers emergency, acute and chronic care. The health centre has a full range of inpatient services, including:

• General surgical services
• Endoscopy
• Obstetrical
• Rehabilitative care
• Palliative care
• Specialty clinics
• Oncology services

The DRHC also supports visiting specialists that offer orthopaedic, rheumatology, plastic surgery, paediatrics, otolaryngology and obstetrical gynaecology services.
CT scans, X-rays, ultrasounds, and laboratory services can also be done at the DHRC.

Family doctors, nurses, dietitians, mental health therapists, an Anishinaabe Community Liaison, and other specialists make up Dryden Area Family Health Team (DAFHT).

These professionals offer a range of services, including:

• Arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic pain self-management program

• Craving Change program
• Dryden Diabetes Centre
• Heart health
• Lung health
• Mental health counselling
• Stress reduction and relaxation
• Wound care

Doctors with the Dingwall Medical Clinic are part of the Dryden Area Family Health Team as well.

There are many additional health resources available to citizens, including:

• Alzheimer's Society, 807-220-2713
• Brain Injury Services of  Northwestern Ontario, 866-796-1188 or 807-624-4575
• Canadian Mental Health Association Peer Support Drop-In Center
• Canadian Red Cross, 807-223-4751
• Community Living Dryden and Sioux Lookout, 807-223-3364
• Crisis Response Services, 807-223-8878 or 807-223-1418
• District Mental Health Services  for Older Adults Program/CMHA, 807-223-8972
• Dryden Aboriginal Women's  Resource Centre, 807-223-6100
• Dryden Attendance Centre, 807-223-6351
• Dryden Native Friendship Centre, 807-223-4180
• Dryden Regional Mental Health and Addiction Services, 807-223-6678
• Hoshizaki House, 807-223-7321 or 807-223-3226
• Northwestern Health Unit, 807-223-3301
• Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Care and Treatment Program, 807-223-7427
• Victim Witness Assistance Program, 807-223-7310