About Our Team

​Community Nursing Services started as a visiting nursing company in January 1984, in Huron County. For 25 years CNS staff delivered exceptional nursing care throughout North Huron and Perth counties. In 2007  a shift occurred in the home health care sector when LHINs (local health integration networks) were formed and the CCAC (Community Care Access Center) boundaries were changed. There was a need to consolidate CCAC contracts and CNS staff and visits rolled into the contracts of a bigger “sister agency”.  The staff and management expressed a desire to keep CNS alive and allow the nurses to volunteer their time and expertise to provide clinics in third world countries in desperate need. CNS is a registered charity and governed by a volunteer board of directors. 

Mission

​To provide medical team expertise, medications and supplies to areas of need both domestic and international.

Vision

Driven by passion of care, we will provide service regardless of race, religion, creed, or political conviction and will remain neutral in the services we deliver. 

Values

• We will provide preferential care for the poor and the marginalized both within our own communities and abroad
• We will be responsible citizens, seeking to work cooperatively and responsibly with other providers of health care as well as with those levels of government with whom we interact
• We will be sensitive to the cultural values of all those whom we serve
• We will earn the trust of all that we offer our service: patients, residents, community and government 

Our Services 

​We provide clinic services to selected third world countries in need of health care.
We will provide  the following services:

• Physical assessment via nurses, MD
• Dentistry assessment and services
• Assessment and provision of reading glasses
• Wound care
• Medication prescription, management
• Diabetes assessment and management 

• Palliative care
• Pain management
• Maternal and child services
• Pediatric services
• Health teaching
• Referral to local resources as necessary

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Board Members

CNS is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors:

Dr. Marie Gear 
Susan Wright
Linda Deans
Karen Smith
Julie Deans