Integrated Health Services Plan
The North West Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), with its partners, is working towards its vision for the northwest: Healthier people, a strong health system – our future.
We have a plan to achieve this vision called the Integrated Health Services Plan (IHSP), which provides an assessment of local health care needs and existing health services in Northwestern Ontario; identifies priorities for health system improvements in our region; and sets out plans to address these priority health care issues. We have reviewed and revised our first IHSP (2007-2010) into a new plan for 2010-2013 to be sure our plans and priorities are kept current. This new plan is posted below.
Each IHSP is based on information gathered through data analysis and significant community engagement with residents and health care professionals. Advice is provided to the LHIN through our community engagement activities and education sessions, roundtables and our many Advisory Teams. Our largest engagement project in 2009 was our Share Your Story, Shape Your Care initiative, which gathered opinions, stories and ideas from over 800 people on priorities for change to the health system in Northwestern Ontario.
North West LHIN IHSP 2010-2013 - released November 30, 2009
English copy
French copy
Supporting Documents: Information from a number of supporting documents which were used to inform our new plan.
Summary of Accomplishments from our first IHSP (2007 to March 31, 2010)
Three Focus Areas for Priorities in New IHSP
The North West LHIN is using a model for planning that focuses the priorities in our second IHSP in three primary focus areas: Access to and Integration of Services; Enablers; and People of Northwestern Ontario. Based on all of the information gathered through community engagement and data analysis, the priorities in the North West LHIN IHSP 2010-2013 will include:
Access to and Integration of Services:
- Emergency Department & Alternate Level of Care
- Primary Care
- Specialty Care & Diagnostic Services
- Chronic Diseae Prevention & Management
- Long-Term Care Services
- Mental Health & Addictions Services
Enablers:
- Health Human Resources
- eHealth
- Integration of Services along the Continuum of Care
People of Northwestern Ontario:
- Aboriginal Health Services
- French Language Health Services
Our First IHSP for the Years 2007-2010
The 2007-2010 North West LHIN Integrated Health Services Plan, Summary, Appendices and a summary of accomplishments from this IHSP are available by clicking here.
Advancing the IHSP
Advisory Teams have been created to work with the LHIN to provide guidance on how the IHSP should be put into action.