The North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) has approved short-term funding to support the Kwae Kii Win Managed Alcohol Program (MAP), being operated by Shelter House Thunder Bay. The North West LHIN will supply one-time funding for the Kwae Kii Win MAP for the continuity of service, and [Read more]
The North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) has released the 2015 Winter edition of its Quarterly Newsletter LHINkages. In it the North West LHIN shares Health Care news, stories and developments from Northwestern Ontario (see list of featured articles below). To view the PDF [Read more]
The Public Appointments Secretariat of the Province of Ontario, through Order-in-Council, has appointed three new members to the North West Local Health Integration Network’s Board of Directors. Appointed on March 18, 2015, for a three-year term, is Darryl Allan, a member of the Northwest Angle [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – The North West Local Health Integration Network (LHiN)’s March 2014 issue of LHINfo Minute includes details of how partner organizations have worked together to create the first Health Link within the North West LHIN. CLICK HERE to learn more about how the Health [Read more]
New Health Link to Co-ordinate Care for Seniors and Patients with Complex Conditions High needs patients in the City of Thunder Bay Integrated District Network (IDN) will soon benefit from better coordinated care from a new Health Link bringing together all health providers in the community. [Read more]
The North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) announced today that it will provide more than $988,000 in funding to increase crisis withdrawal and stabilization services at St. Joseph’s Care Group’s Balmoral Withdrawal Management Centre (Detoxification) in Thunder Bay. As part of a [Read more]
$40 million invested in health human resources to support seniors with complex mental health needs The North West Local Health Integration Network, along with Ontario’s 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs), is investing $1.23 million to enhance services for seniors who exhibit [Read more]
Capital Funding Ensures Continued Access to High Quality Care for Patients The North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) is investing in infrastructure renewal projects for hospitals in Northwestern Ontario to ensure they continue to offer high quality care to local residents. The North [Read more]
A draft report of the joint operational review of the Manitouwadge, McCausland and Wilson Memorial hospitals has been presented to the Joint Operational Review Steering Committee. The review, which is being funded by the North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), is examining the [Read more]
Improving access to care. That’s why the North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) invested $353,971 into telemedicine – to improve access to quality health care for the people of Northwestern Ontario. Fourteen organizations across the region will use the money to buy new telemedicine [Read more]
Steps are being taken to enhance community outreach capacity and service coordination for residents with an acquired brain injury in Northwestern Ontario. The North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) has provided $715,000 of new funding to the Brain Injury Services of Northern Ontario [Read more]
Patients across Northwestern Ontario benefit from one regional integrated reporting system THUNDER BAY, ON – 168 physicians and nurse practitioners are now receiving patient reports electronically from 12 hospitals in the North West Local Health Integration Network (NW LHIN) through the Physician [Read more]
New Supportive Housing Services for Seniors in Kenora-Rainy River District The North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) is expanding its successful Aging at Home Strategy to provide additional supportive housing in Kenora and Dryden, and to fund a new supportive housing initiative in [Read more]
