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Health Minister Christine Elliott issued the order Wednesday to bring five health entities including Cancer Care Ontario and eHealth Ontario under the umbrella of a new super agency called Ontario Health.
The minister also put 14 LHINs, the organizations that provide home care, under the management of five CEOS, and nine LHIN CEOs were let go at a total severance cost of about $3 million.
Elliott described it as a cautious interim step to avoid disruptions for patients as preparations continue to move the LHINs under Ontario Health and community and home care providers to local Ontario Health teams.
“We know that the status quo is not acceptable, that our present system is just not sustainable with a rapidly growing aging population that’s already under tremendous strain, and that it’s also not providing the care that people expect and deserve,” Elliott told the Toronto Sun in an interview.
“We know that there are patients that are not followed when they leave hospital, that they may need home care and that it’s not happening in the way it should with the result that many people don’t get home care in a timely manner and end up back in hospital emergency departments with complications.
“So we want to create a patient-centred system of health care and … this next step in an important step in bringing that about,” she said.
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