The CBHSSJB presently has a regional hospital centre and nine clinics spread over a geographic area similar in size to France.
Miyupimaatisiuun (literally "being alive well) is the Eastern James Bay Cree word for health.
Community outreach is strengthened through partnering with other researchers and institutions for research such as the 2018 study by Noreen Willows, Louise Johnson-Down, Jean-Claude Moubarac, Michel Lucas, Elizabeth Robinson & Malek Bata, Factors associated with the intake of traditional foods in the Eeyou Istchee (Cree) of northern Quebec include age, speaking the Cree language and food sovereignty indicators.
[2] Some of this research has led to the discovery of Awashishinic Acid, a compound in the Cree traditional diet that prevents diabetes.
CBHSSJB is also a small press that publishes Indigenous-focused health materials, such as diabetes pamphlets[6][7] and Indigenous health-focussed books: two of many examples are The Sweet Bloods of the Eeyou Istchee: Stories of Diabetes and the James Bay Cree,[8] The gift of healing : health problems and their treatments (out of print).