The Local Health Integration Networks could go the way of the dodo bird. That’s if Tory leader Patrick Brown has his way and wins the 2018 provincial election. Brown says health care in Ontario has a bloated administrative division which means less money for actual health services. Brown says he has yet to find a single doctor or nurse that supports having the LHINs. Ontario has 14 LHINs, including one that oversees Northeastern Ontario. The LHINs were created by former Premier Dalton McGuinty.
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LHINs could disappear under Tory government
Rocco Frangione
I've been a broadcast journalist for three-plus decades in Northern Ontario. I'm a graduate of Algonquin College's radio and television arts program and prior to that, an honours grad from Carleton University's philosophy program.
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