Introducing the South East Local Health Integration Network
Citizens’ Regional Health Assembly
Each of us has a story about our health care system, about the services we use and expect. We each have an idea about what’s right and wrong, about what works and what needs fixing.
The South East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) is a provincial agency that monitors and improves the health care system in our region. It’s our job to work with the health care community and citizens to ensure that we are setting the right standards and priorities for health care. This is a tough job that requires balancing many different interests, demands and pressures, and it’s why we are reaching out to citizens across the region for help.
There are more than 440,000 citizens within Ontario’s South East region. Recently we sent a special invitation to 3,000 randomly selected citizens asking them to volunteer to spend a weekend learning about, discussing and creating a vision for health care in the South East region.
Among the citizens who respond to our invitation, we will randomly select 27 men and 27 women from across the region to join us.
What is the Citizens’ Regional Health Assembly?
The Citizens' Regional Health Assembly is a two-day event to learn about our health care system and recommend a long-term vision for improving health care and health outcomes in South East Ontario. It brings together fifty-four randomly selected citizens from across the region to work alongside twenty health care practitioners as well as members of the LHIN board. Assembly members will work together to learn about the region’s health care system and the challenges it faces.
As a provincial agency with responsibility for monitoring and improving health care in the region, the South East LHIN is mandated to work with both the health care community and with citizens to set priorities for improving health care. We believe that the Citizens’ Assembly model is a powerful way to put citizens and medical practitioners in the driver’s seat. The results of this process will inform how the South East LHIN works to improve health care and health outcomes in the South East Region.
Questions? Contact us:
If you have any questions about the Citizens’ Regional Health Assembly, please call Chi Nguyen, Assembly Coordinator, toll-free at 1-800 –369-1796.
If you’re a member of the media interested in finding out more about the Citizens’ Regional Health Assembly, please contact Jacqueline Prospero at (613) 967-0196 ext. 220.
Documents of interest:
Original Invitation to a random sample of SE LHIN residents
Question and Answer Document