The provincial government is shedding more light on how they will be changing Ontario’s health care system. Starting on December 2nd, five provincial agencies will begin to merge into one new super agency called Ontario Health. The Trillium Gift of Life Network, which is responsible for organ and tissue donations and transplantation services, will be transferred at a later date.
The 14 Local Health Integration Networks will be clustered into five interim geographic regions and will be led by five transitional leads. That means nine Chief Executive Officers will be let go. The new leader for the North health authority will be Thunder Bay’s Rhonda Crocker Ellacott. She was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the North West Local Health Integration Network on May 14, 2018.
The government stresses this is an administrative step only and not a merger of LHIN boundaries. The PC’s add the LHIN’s will eventually transition into Ontario Health or to local Ontario Health Teams. They stress there will be no impact on patient care or on employees.
