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| Sep 9,
2010 | OSMH Appoints VP People, Planning and Partnerships |
| Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital (OSMH) announced today the appointment of Angela Harwood to the position of Vice President, People, Planning and Partnerships effective September 2010. |
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| Sep 8,
2010 | Royal Victoria Hospital Approves Hospital Improvement Plan |
| The Royal Victoria Hospital Board of Directors has approved a Hospital Improvement Plan, allowing RVH to meet its financial obligation to balance the hospital’s budget, while maintaining quality and safe patient care. The hospital was directed to develop the plan by the North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network (LHIN). RVH ended the 2009/10 fiscal year with a $3 million deficit. |
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| Sep 2,
2010 | North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN Expands Aging At Home Programs |
| The North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN is expanding its successful Aging at Home strategy. Ontario is providing the NSM LHIN with $11,635,000 to ensure more seniors get health care at home or in the community. |
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| Sep 2,
2010 | NSM Aging at Home Strategy Backgrounder |
| 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 31,
2010 | G&M Hospital Welcomes Two New Specialists |
| The Collingwood G&M Hospital is excited to announce the arrival of two new specialists to care for area residents and visitors. |
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| Aug 23,
2010 | More Nurse Practitioner Clinics Coming To Ontario |
| More patients in Ontario will have access to family health care thanks to 14 new Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics being created throughout the province. |
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| Aug 23,
2010 | Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics In Ontario |
| Ontario’s Family Health Care for All Strategy continues to focus on improving access to family health care and reducing the number of unattached patients through the creation of 25 Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics. |
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| Aug 17,
2010 | NSM LHIN Board Appointments |
| North Simcoe Muskoka (NSM) LHIN Board Chair Ruben Rosen is pleased to announce appointments to the North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network’s Board of Directors. |
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| Aug 12,
2010 | Award Winning Psychologist to Lead MHCP Program |
| An internationally recognized research psychologist, professor, author and editor who is the former head of the Law and Mental Health Program, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, will soon join the Mental Health Centre Penetanguishene (MHCP). |
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| Jul 30,
2010 | North Simcoe Muskoka Residents Benefit |
| Ontario is expanding its successful Pay-for-Results program and giving 4 hospitals in the North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network the tools they need to drive down ER wait times and ensure patients get the emergency care they need, sooner. |
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| Jul 20,
2010 | Kudos for Quality at CGMH |
| The Collingwood G&M Hospital has recently been awarded Accreditation status with Accreditation Canada following an intensive and rigorous on site evaluation of patient care delivery. An accreditation review is a voluntary process which the G&M Hospital undergoes every three years as part of its commitment to patient safety, continuous improvement, accountability and transparency. |
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| Jul 14,
2010 | Parking Changes at RVH |
| In response to requests by patients and visitors, Royal Victoria Hospital is implementing a new visitor parking system on July 19. The new system provides a variety of pay options -- including short term parking -- instead of one flat fee. Revenues generated from parking will be directed towards patient care and the purchase of medical equipment. |
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| Jul 12,
2010 | NSM LHIN Collaborates with NOSM |
| Dr. Roger Strasser, Dean, Northern Ontario School of Medicine and Bernie Blais, CEO, North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) are pleased to announce today the signing of a collaborative partnership agreement between the two organizations. |
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| Jun 17,
2010 | Ontario On Target for Surgical Wait Times |
| Ontario has achieved a major milestone in its efforts to reduce wait times. The latest data show provincial wait times for all surgical areas in the province are within target... |
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| Jun 17,
2010 | Ontario's Wait Time Strategy |
| Ontario now reports wait time information in more ways and more frequently than any other province in Canada. Ontario is now reporting wait times for all surgical areas at hospitals across the province. |
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| May 28,
2010 | Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Improves ER Wait Times |
| Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital (OSMH) is being recognized for significantly reducing emergency room wait times and improving patient care in its emergency room (ER). Soldier’s Memorial Hospital has reduced wait times by .... |
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| May 27,
2010 | Four LHINs Partner on Mental Health and Addictions Pilot Project |
| Four of Ontario’s fourteen LHINs are working together with Ontario’s Community Care Information Management (CCIM) leads to establish a portal for service providers to securely share and access accurate health information electronically. |
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| May 26,
2010 | Electronic Hospital Reports Improving Patient Care in Barrie |
| Barrie’s Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) is now electronically sending 2,500 patient reports per week to physicians at the Barrie and Community Family Health Team (BCFHT). The reports are sent directly into the patient’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) at the BCFHT. |
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| May 3,
2010 | Improving Health Care for Ontarians |
| Ontario is proposing comprehensive new initiatives to improve the quality and accountability of the province's health care system and ensure the needs of patients come first. |
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| May 3,
2010 | Patient-Based Payment for Hospitals |
| Ontario will continue moving larger hospitals towards a patient-based funding payment model where hospitals are reimbursed based on the types and volumes of patients they treat. |
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| May 3,
2010 | Proposed Excellent Care for All Act |
| Ontario is introducing the proposed Excellent Care for All Act that is intended to make health care providers and executives accountable for improving patient care. The aim of the legislation is to foster a culture of continuous quality improvement where the needs of patients come first. |
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| Apr 7,
2010 | Reforming Ontario’s Drug System |
| Ontario is further reforming the prescription drug system to ensure wider availability of more affordable drugs. The reforms would end professional allowances and more fairly compensate pharmacists for the valuable work they do. |
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| Apr 7,
2010 | McGuinty Government Reforming Ontario’s Drug System |
| Ontario plans to further reform the prescription drug system to provide better access to lower-cost generic drugs for patients, while continuing to increase annual funding to the drug system as a whole. |
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| Apr 7,
2010 | Ontario Drug System Fact Sheet |
| Ontario Public Drug Programs (OPDP) funds over 4,000 brand and generic drugs for eligible residents of Ontario. Pharmacists play an important role in dispensing these drugs and in providing support and clinical information to the patients. |
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| Mar 31,
2010 | Care Connections – Partnering for Healthy Communities |
| Today, with videoconference launch sites in the North Simcoe Muskoka Local Health Integration Network’s (LHIN) five geographic regions, the LHIN formally kicked off the long-awaited Care Connections project. Care Connections is made up of two components – the future health system design for North Simcoe Muskoka and the information and communications technology that will assist in making this design a reality. |
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| Jan 15,
2010 | Enhancing Francophone Input Into Health Care Services |
| Ontario is giving the province’s francophone community more input into the planning and integration of French language health services in local communities. At least five new French language planning entities in regions across the province will be created through a new regulation under the Local Health System Integration Act. |
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| Jan 15,
2010 | Francophone Community Engagement Regulation |
| A new regulation under the Local Health System Integration Act will support coordinated, meaningful and effective engagement of francophone communities on health services. This regulation outlines how the ministry will select French language health planning entities to work with the 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs). |
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| Dec 1,
2009 | New Law Increases Access to Health Care |
| Ontarians will soon have better access to health care and more choices in who provides it, as Bill 179 was passed Monday night with unanimous support. Upon proclamation, the bill will give nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapists and other health professionals the freedom to provide a wider range of health care services. |
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