Health Care Providers

Updates

Guidance for 2025/2026 respiratory illness season is available on these dedicated pages:
- Influenza
- COVID-19
- RSV

In this section, health care providers can access important information about public health as it pertains to their profession. Please note: “health care provider” is a term used to describe a health care practitioner who is in contact with clients or groups of clients and bears responsibility for managing or informing them about some aspect of physical and/or mental health and wellness.

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Health Care Provider Email Updates and Alerts

Mandatory Reporting

Vaccine Reporting for Health Care Providers

Immunization of Children/Youth (Ages 0-18 years) Report Form (IMT-911)
Some vaccines require special report forms. You can access them by visiting the Vaccine Reporting section of our Immunization Resources page for Health Care Providers.

What Health Care Providers can do about Health Equity

Here is some information about screening, understanding, and evaluating your patient population.

This video link examines how income has an impact on health: Ted Talk: If You Want to Help Me, Prescribe Me Money: Gary Bloch
The Measuring Health Equity website provides health care providers with practical advice, tools, and resources on how to plan, implement, and use patient and client demographic data in their health-care settings.

Here are some screening tools for use in primary care:

This Patient Demographic form (PDF) provides a useful tool for demographic data collection in Canadian health care settings.
The Ontario College of Family Physicians is committed to addressing poverty, providing a number of tools and resources that can be used for screening.

Learn more about how the social determinants affect the health of Thunder Bay District by visiting our Profile of Social Determinants of Health in Thunder Bay District

Health Topics

Alcohol & Other Drugs

Let’s Start A Conversation About Alcohol: Community Report
Low-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines (Provided by CAMH)

Disease & Infections

Diseases A-Z
PIDAC Recommended Guidelines for Infection Control/Diseases (Public Health Ontario)
Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) Investigations
Immunization Resources for Health Care Providers
Public Health Ontario - Test Directory A-Z
For consent forms, visit Resources and filter by content type "Forms"

Mental Health

Oral Health

Oral Health
Healthy Smiles Ontario
Fluoride Varnish Program
Oral Health Care for Infants and Toddlers - includes resources for parents to promote oral health
Start Early: Healthy Smiles for Life Checklist for Caregivers (PDF) - Use this checklist with families to promote and protect children's oral health from birth-5 years.
Start Early - Healthy Smiles for Life - Oral Health Screening Tool for Children 18 - 36 Months (PDF) - Use this checklist with families to monitor oral health development in young children 18-36 months old.
Healthy Smiles Ontario Promotional Poster (PDF) - Information about the Healthy Smiles Ontario program
Service Request Children's Oral Health Program (PDF) - use this form when requesting Health Unit services for children in need of dental care and/or navigation to an oral health care provider. Fax completed forms to (807) 625-2369.

Outbreak Signage

Caution - This sign can be used to communicate to visitors when a facility is monitoring signs and symptoms of illness.
Declared - This sign can be used to communicate to visitors when an outbreak is declared.