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A Snapshot of Equity Initiatives on LHIN Websites–Hamilton Niagara Hadimand Brant LHIN

Links

http://www.hnhblhin.on.ca

Integrated Health Service Plan

Aboriginal Health Search Conference Community Report

Equity Highlights

Equity-related Advisory Committees:

(1) Health Opportunities for Aboriginal People (HOAP)

  • HOAP is a group of First Nations, Metis, urban and rural health and social service providers who meet regularly
  • They held a search conference (Feb 29-March 2, 2008) which included an Aboriginal Health Search Conference Community Report
  • The report discusses systemic health system barriers to Aboriginal people as well as community approaches to Aboriginal health including: using cultural identity as medicine, encouraging people to learn and follow traditional ways, using more traditional medicine, reducing isolation and offering choices of traditional, conventional or naturopathic care
  • The report also recognizes the need to improve preventive care and implement culturally appropriate care for the LHIN’s Aboriginal residents

(2) French Language Health Services Advisory Committee

  • This advisory committee will advise the LHIN on how to: (1) increase knowledge and awareness of health needs of the Francophone population, (2) build capacity in HNHB LHIN communities to provide quality French language health services and (3) integrate principles of the French Language Health Services Act (FLHSA) in the LHIN’s health transformation initiatives and decision-making

IHSP

  • The IHSP focuses on Aboriginal health and French Language health
  • The LHIN focuses in part on using telehealth to help overcome barriers of geography, transportation infrastructure and socioeconomic disparities (i.e. using e-health to reduce disparities)
  • The LHIN wants to enable equitable access to e-health solutions for all providers
  • There is a focus on achieving equitable and timely access to care for a range of populations (including First Nations, children and youth, and seniors)

Specialized services for frail seniors

  • The Geriatric Access and Integration Network (GAIN) will be strategic and purposeful, collaborative among stakeholders, and will propose and coordinate LHIN wide strategies to optimize the quality of life for frail seniors

The primary goal is to develop an inter-connected network of specialized geriatric health care services that will promote (among other things) “equitable access to specialized geriatric services in hospitals and the community”

Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.