Geraldton District Hospital, Building

Message from the CEO GDH Dec 2016

Message from the CEO GDH

Dec 7 2016

 

Lucy Bonanno CEO

The Patients First Act, 2016

Ontario’s healthcare system is changing and that is clearly shown by today’s passage of Bill 41 in the legislature: The Patients First Act, 2016. Its goal is to create an improved health system, where all health system partners are collaborating to ensure smooth and successful transition of care for clients from one area of care to the next.

Geraldton District Hospital is committed to working with our health system partners to ensure we achieve a collaborative sharing system. One step currently being taken is the development of a new program, ‘Health Links’. This new program, together with various health system partners, will offer our most vulnerable clients, the ability to better manage their health and well-being. ‘Health Links’ will give us the ability to partner with primary health care providers to achieve a sharing of expertise, resources and capacity in assisting to transform care for the most vulnerable in our community.

This legislation marks a major milestone. It is through The Patients First Act, 2016 that we can develop ‘Health Links’ for the region of Greenstone; as well as, many other new programs, to promote health and wellbeing for our communities.