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Aug 31, 2010Media Release: HNHB LHIN Expands Aging at Home Programs
The Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration network (HNHB LHIN) is expanding the successful Aging at Home strategy. Ontario has provided the HNHB LHIN with more than $29 million to ensure more seniors get health care at home or in the community. 
 
Aug 31, 2010Backgrounder: Aging at Home Strategy
Ontario is investing $1.1 billion over four years in the Aging at Home Strategy in sectors such as community support services; hospitals; Community Care Access Centre; long-term care homes and other sectors. Aging at Home (AAH), as initially announced in 2007, is a program that provides a continuum of community-based services for seniors and their caregivers to allow them to stay healthy and live independently and with dignity in their homes.
 
Aug 3, 2010Media Release: HNHB LHIN Invests in Hospitals to Reduce ER Wait Times
Ontario is expanding its successful Pay-for-Results program and giving eight hospitals in the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network the tools they need to drive down ER wait times and ensure patients can get the emergency care they need, sooner. 
 
Aug 3, 2010Backgrounder: Pay-for-Results Program
Ontario is providing the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network with $5,310,700 for meeting specific emergency room (ER) wait time reduction targets.
 
Jun 30, 2010Media Release: Integrated Program for Complex Care Approved by the HNHB LHIN Board
At its June 29, 2010 meeting the HNHB LHIN Board of Directors approved a plan to create an LHIN-wide integrated program for complex care. The plan includes seven recommendations – all of which were supported by the Board.
 

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Aug 27, 2010Media Release: Ontario Moving To Reduce Abuse Of Prescription Narcotics
Ontario is taking action to curb the growing abuse of prescription narcotics and controlled substances, including those containing oxycodone.
 
Aug 27, 2010Backgrounder: Narcotics Strategy
Ontario is launching a new strategy to address abuse of prescription narcotics and other controlled substances, and to ensure their safe and appropriate use by those who require pain management medication.
 
Aug 27, 2010Backgrounder: Rising Use and Abuse of Narcotics
The excessive use of prescription narcotics and controlled substances has emerged as a public health and safety issue in Canada, the United States and other jurisdictions around the world.
 
Aug 27, 2010Backgrounder: Narcotics Strategy: What Other People Are Saying
Read what other people are saying about the Narcotics Strategy.
 
Aug 24, 2010Media Release: New Family Health Teams Increasing Access to Care
Ontario is creating 30 new Family Health Teams across the province to provide better access to family health care.
 

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