As Director of Health Services for Keewaytinook Okimakanak Council, Orpah has been working with the KO First Nations in meeting the health needs in their goal to have community-based programs which are designed, developed and delivered by community health workers.

As a 1993 graduate of Lakehead University School of Nursing, Orpah jumped in with both feet to go to work coordinating the Brighter Futures program with the First Nations. It has been eight years of development work in a variety of community health related programs including Brighter Futures/Building Healthy Communities, Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative, Home Care Resources Training, KO Telepsychiatry Pilot Project, Long Term Care Program, Home and Community Care Program, Healthy Babies/Healthy Children Program and most recently the North Network/Keewaytinook Okimakanak Telehealth Services.

Most of Orpah's work includes maintaining contact and providing support to the First Nations health staff and Chiefs and Councils in the development of community-based health programs. She sits on a number of committees and boards related to health including the NORTH Network's Provincial Steering Committee.

Orpah is a member of Muskrat Dam First Nation.