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Hamilton Health Sciences' Access to the Best Care Plan

Overview

On August 6, 2008 Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) submitted its Access to the Best Care plan to the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN).

The Access to the Best Care plan is a 3-5 year plan that

  • Describes service realignments among the four sites of HHS,
  • Describes the transfer of some services to St. Joseph’s Healthcare,
  • Proposes a new Urgent Care site in Hamilton.

Under the LHSIA (Local Health System Integration Act, 2006), hospitals are required to advise the LHIN of program and service changes. Under the LHSIA, the proposed urgent care centre and transfer of services to St. Joseph’s Healthcare are considered to be integrations and therefore the LHIN was required to respond to the proposed integrations. 

Timeline

August 6, 2009, HNHB LHIN receives Access to the Best Care plan from Hamilton Health Sciences.

August 26, 2008, HNHB LHIN Board moves to respond to the proposed integrations.

September 29, 2008, the HNHB LHIN Board allows the HHS's Access to the Best Care plan to move forward.

Background Documents

The following documents provided information as we moved through the process.  Note: They are posted from the newest to the oldest.

  • The HNHB LHIN issued a media release announcing that the HNHB LHIN Board of Directors allows integrations within Hamilton Health Sciences’ plan, September 29, 2008.
  • The HNHB LHIN Board of Directors reviewed the presentation on the Hamilton Health Sciences Access to the Best Care, September 29, 2008.
  • The HNHB LHIN Board of Directors passed the following motion at its meeting:  "That the Board of Directors confirms that pursuant to the Local Health Systems Integration Act the deliberation will be restricted to the proposed integrations. The integrations of the urgent care centre and transfer of services to St. Joseph’s Healthcare will be assessed against the Health Service Provider Checklist and alignment with the LHIN’s Integrated Health Service Plan and public interest, including the overall impact on access to urgent, emergent and emergency care in Hamilton."