The Northeast Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) wants providers of health care in this area to consolidate their functions so they can better serve their clients.
The Northeast LHIN plans, funds and co-ordinates health care services for more than half a million people across 400,000 sq. km. It manages the health care delivered by hospitals, as well as long-term care facilities, community health centres, community support services and mental health agencies.
“The more money they can gain on the administrative side, the more money will be available for the service delivery side,” said CEO Rémy Beaudoin.
It’s a strategy the LHIN wants Sudbury Regional Hospital to use to get out of the red, hospital CEO Vickie Kaminski told fellow board members at their most recent meeting.
“We haven’t done a lot of integration in the northeast,” she said.
Kaminski told the LHIN the hospital will most likely have a deficit of $815,000 for the 2008/09 fiscal year.
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