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| Aug 31,
2010 | Media 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. |
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| Aug 31,
2010 | Backgrounder: 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. |
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| Aug 3,
2010 | Media 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. |
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| Aug 3,
2010 | Backgrounder: 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. |
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| Jun 30,
2010 | Media 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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| Jun 28,
2010 | Media Release: HNHB LHIN Announces New Board Member |
| Board Chair Juanita Gledhill is pleased to announce the appointment of Helen Mulligan to the Board of the HNHB LHIN. Ms. Mulligan’s three year appointment by the Lieutenant Governor in Council was effective June 17, 2010. |
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| Jun 15,
2010 | Announcement: HNHB LHIN announces retirement of its founding CEO |
| At its June 15 meeting the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN) board of directors received notice from CEO Pat Mandy of her intention to retire. |
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| May 6,
2010 | Media Release: Collaboration Between HNHB LHIN and McMaster University's Faculty of Health Sciences |
| The HNHB LHIN, in collaboration with McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences, is pleased to announce the first joint appointment between a LHIN and a school of medicine. Through this joint appointment Dr. Jennifer Everson will serve as the McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences’ LHIN Liaison and the HNHB LHIN Physician Lead, Planning and Integration. |
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| Apr 7,
2010 | Media Release: HNHB LHIN Responds To Ontario PC Leader's Comments |
| HNHB LHIN takes the opportunity to clarify statements made by Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak in reference to contracts. |
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| Apr 1,
2010 | Media Release: HNHB LHIN Speaker's Bureau Wants To Speak With Your Group |
| The HNHB LHIN is kicking off its 2010-2011 Speaker’s Bureau season. Speaker’s Bureau sessions will inform communities about current HNHB LHIN projects and planning initiatives and this year will include information on the recently released Integrated Health Service Plan (IHSP) 2010-2013. |
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| Mar 23,
2010 | Media Release: Official Launch of HNHB LHIN RNAO Best Practice Spotlight Organization Initiative |
| The HNHB LHIN is one of sixteen sites across the province that has been given the opportunity by the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) to become a Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO). |
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| Mar 17,
2010 | Media Release: Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant LHIN Announces New Board Member |
| Board Chair Juanita Gledhill is pleased to announce the appointment of Ruby Jacobs to the Board of the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network. |
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| Feb 19,
2010 | Media Update: NHS Has Attained Fiscal Sustainability |
| Since its inception the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN) has been working with the Niagara Health System (NHS) towards achieving quality, accessible and sustainable health care for the citizens of Niagara. With this $25 million base funding investment, the NHS has achieved financial stability and there is now a new sustainable future for quality, consistent, accessible health care in Niagara. |
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| Feb 5,
2010 | Media Release: Residents Get Better Access to Modern Long-Term Care |
| Residents in eight long-term care homes in our LHIN can look forward to more comfortable and modern living conditions with the modernization of 782 beds. |
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| Jan 22,
2010 | Media Release: Growing Communities Get Hospital Funding Boost - Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital |
| This year, the province is providing $10 million in new base funding to help hospitals in communities experiencing high population growth manage increased demand and reduce wait times. Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital is one of the recipients of this funding. |
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| Jan 22,
2010 | Media Release: Growing Communities Get Hospital Funding Boost - Norfolk General Hospital |
| This year, the province is providing $10 million in new base funding to help hospitals in communities experiencing high population growth manage increased demand and reduce wait times. Norfolk General Hospital is one of the recipients of this funding. |
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| Jan 22,
2010 | Media Release: Growing Communities Get Hospital Funding Boost - West Haldimand General Hospital |
| This year, the province is providing $10 million in new base funding to help hospitals in communities experiencing high population growth manage increased demand and reduce wait times. West Haldimand General Hospital is one of the recipients of this funding. |
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| Jan 22,
2010 | Media Release: Growing Communities Get Hospital Funding Boost - West Lincoln Memorial Hospital |
| This year, the province is providing $10 million in new base funding to help hospitals in communities experiencing high population growth manage increased demand and reduce wait times. West Lincoln Memorial Hospital is one of the recipients of this funding. |
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| Dec 21,
2009 | HNHB LHIN Launches Second Integrated Health Service Plan |
| At its December 15 meeting, the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN) Board of Directors approved its second Integrated Health Service Plan (IHSP) entitled Improving our Health Care Experience: Integrated Health Service Plan 2010-2013. |
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| Dec 3,
2009 | Media Release: Clinical Services Plan Approved By HNHB LHIN Board |
| At its November 24, 2009 meeting the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN) Board of Directors approved the Clinical Services Plan. The Clinical Services Plan provides a long-range picture of what the health system in the HNHB LHIN will look like to meet the current and future needs of LHIN residents. |
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| Sep 21,
2009 | Media Release: HNHB LHIN Hosting 12 Community Open Houses In October |
| The Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN), in partnership with various community organizations, is hosting 12 Open Houses in communities across the LHIN. Citizens are invited to attend. |
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| Jul 13,
2009 | Media Release: HNHB LHIN Invests in Supportive Housing |
| HNHB LHIN announces $491,000 for 40 supportive housing units to help people living with addictions, as part of a three-year, $16 million provincial investment. |
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| Jul 13,
2009 | Backgrounder: Supportive Housing for People with Substance Use Issues |
| Ontario is providing $16 million over three years to fund 1,000 supportive housing units for people with substance use issues or concurrent disorders. |
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| May 22,
2009 | Media Release: HNHB LHIN Invests to Reduce ER Wait Times |
| Through the province's ER Strategy, the HNHB LHIN is receiving funding for a number of initiatives to reduce emergency room wait times and improve patient satisfaction. |
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| May 22,
2009 | Backgrounder: HNHB LHIN Investing in Initiatives to Improve ER Performance |
| The HNHB LHIN is helping the region’s hospitals reduce the amount of time people spend in emergency rooms (ERs) through initiatives funded through the government’s ER Strategy. |
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| May 19,
2009 | Media Release: HNHB LHIN Invests in Communities to Ensure Right Care in the Right Place at the Right Time |
| The HNHB LHIN is receiving $28.9 million, an increase of $22.6 million, to ensure more seniors can continue to live independently and to allow hospital patients to receive appropriate care in the right setting. |
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| May 19,
2009 | Backgrounder: HNHB LHIN Investing in More Care for Seniors and Community Services |
| The HNHB LHIN is receiving $28.9 million in 2009/10 for a number of initiatives to help seniors live healthy, independent lives in their own homes and to decrease the number of alternate level of care (ALC) patients in hospitals. |
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| Apr 30,
2009 | LHIN Collaborative (LHINC) Communique - April 2009 |
| This communiqué is the first in a series to be distributed to LHIN stakeholders regarding the implementation of the LHIN Collaborative (LHINC). In the interests of open and transparent communications, the HNHB LHIN is sharing this communiqué broadly with individuals, health service providers and associations and we invite you to do the same. |
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| Feb 18,
2009 | Backgrounder: HNHB LHIN Clinical Services Plan Steering Committee |
| At its January meeting, the HNHB LHIN Board approved the membership of the CSP Steering Committee. The committee, lead by Brant Community Healthcare System President Richard Woodcock, is made up of a cross-section of health care and community leaders from across the LHIN who reflect a system-thinking perspective, and are committed to health system improvement. |
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| Feb 18,
2009 | Clinical Services Plan Steering Committee approved by HNHB LHIN Board |
| The Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN) has launched the development of a LHIN-wide Clinical Services Plan (CSP) and approved a Steering Committee for the project. |
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| Jan 27,
2009 | HNHB LHIN Integration decision on NHS's Fort Erie Site |
| The Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN) has issued an integration decision that directs the Niagara Health System (NHS) to make changes at its hospital site in Fort Erie. |
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| Dec 17,
2008 | Draft Decision Directs Niagara Health System to Make Changes at its Fort Erie Site |
| The Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN) has issued a proposed integration that would direct the Niagara Health System (NHS) to make changes at its hospital site in Fort Erie. |
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| Dec 17,
2008 | HNHB LHIN Board accepts the revised NHS HIP |
| At its December 16 Board meeting, the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN) accepted the Niagara Health System (NHS) revised Hospital Improvement Plan (HIP). |
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| Sep 29,
2008 | ACCESS TO THE BEST CARE PLAN moves forward |
| HNHB LHIN Board of Directors allows integrations within Hamilton Health Sciences’ plan |
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| Jul 18,
2008 | Media Release: Year 2 Aging at Home Call for Service Plans |
| HNHB LHIN ACCEPTING PROPOSALS FOR YEAR TWO AGING AT HOME FUNDING. $18 million available for 2009-2010 seniors’ projects. |
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| Jul 16,
2008 | NHS Hospital Improvement Plan: Media Release |
| At its Board meeting this morning, the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN) acknowledged receipt of the Hospital Improvement Plan (HIP) from the Niagara Health System (NHS). |
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| Jul 16,
2008 | NHS Hospital Improvement Plan: Backgrounder |
| DR. JACK KITTS TO ASSESS NHS HOSPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN |
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| Jul 15,
2008 | Media Release: HNHB LHIN to receive Niagara Health System Hospital Improvement Plan |
| NIAGARA HEALTH SYSTEM TO PROVIDE HOSPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN: HNHB LHIN Board of Directors to receive plan by July 15, 2008 |
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| Jun 20,
2008 | AAH Initiatives BACKGROUNDER |
| This background document includes a list of the projects funded by the HNHB LHIN in Year 1 of the Aging at Home strategy. These first-year initiatives will provide health care services for local seniors and their caregivers |
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| Mar 5,
2008 | HNHB LHIN funds services to support aging at home |
| Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant LHIN flows more than $7 million to help seniors live healthy, safe lives at home |
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| Sep 5,
2007 | McMaster Children's Hospital and LHIN Join Forces |
| The Child and Youth Health Partnership (C&YHP) - the child health network at McMaster Children’s Hospital - the Waterloo Wellington Local Health Integration Network (WWLHIN)) and the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (HNHB LHIN) are collaborating on Ontario’s first innovative and ground-breaking partnership to position the health of children and youth as one of the top priorities across the two LHINs. |
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| Jun 13,
2007 | HNHB LHIN Announces New Board Members |
| Board Chair Juanita Gledhill today announced the appointment of Bill Millar and Douglas Archibald as Board members of the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network (LHIN). |
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| May 24,
2007 | HNHB LHIN Applauds Local Health Care Innovations Awards Recipient |
| The Ontario government has named the Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University and Fig P. Software Incorporated as one of six winners of the Health Care Innovation Awards. George Smitherman, Minister of Health and Long-Term, announced the winners this morning from among more than two hundred exhibitors, and eighteen semifinalists. |
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| Apr 2,
2007 | Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant LHIN Assumes Responsibilities for Local Health Planning and Decision Making |
| The Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant LHIN celebrates a milestone today. As of April 1, the LHIN assumes its planning, integrating and funding responsibilities for health services in this area. |
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| Feb 16,
2007 | HNHB LHIN Increasing Community-Based Care in Area $4.6 Million Investment to Help Ease Hospital Overcrowding |
| The HNHB LHIN is increasing access to community health services in its service area for patients who no longer need acute hospital care but instead need long-term or community-based care, LHIN CEO Pat Mandy announced today. |
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| Nov 30,
2006 | Quality Care in Community Hands: The Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network releases its first Integrated Health Service Plan |
| With the release of the first Integrated Health Service Plan (IHSP) today, the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant (HNHB) Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) has set a course for health system improvements in this region. “The Board of Directors for the HNHB LHIN is excited to release this milestone document which lays the foundation for health system planning and coordination for the next three years,” said Juanita Gledhill, Chair, HNHB LHIN. |
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| Nov 27,
2006 | Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network to release its first Integrated Health Service Plan |
| The Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network will release its first Integrated Health Service Plan on November 30, 2006 “The Board of Directors for the HNHB LHIN is excited to share this plan which sets the course for health system co-ordination improvements in this region with members of the public,” said Juanita Gledhill, Chair, HNHB LHIN. |
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| Sep 22,
2006 | Open Consultations – Tell Us What You Think |
| The Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant (HNHB) Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) is inviting members of the public to learn about and comment on strategies for health system improvement. The LHIN is holding eight open consultation sessions between Monday, October 2 and Friday, |
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| May 1,
2006 | Quality Care in Community Hands – Planning for the Future. HNHB LHIN holding community open houses |
| The Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant (HNHB) Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) is inviting members of the public to learn about and comment on strategies for health system improvement. The LHIN is holding eight open consultation sessions between Monday, October 2 and Friday, |
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