What you don’t understand about Ontario’s Local Health Integration Networks
During the recent Ontario provincial election much was said about the future of Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) and since, some media wags have taken up the cause, proposing ways to “fix” them. Of course nobody celebrates any dollar spent on administration that could be better spent on patient care, but to suggest LHINs are merely some new or unnecessary “layer” of bureaucracy deliberately misunderstands a few crucial points.