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SARNIA – Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak and Sarnia – Lambton MPP Bob Bailey today called for Dalton McGuinty’s broken LHIN model to be replaced by a system that focuses on patients, seniors, families and front line care.

Hudak and Bailey made their call after meeting with local Sarnia senior Adrien McCabe. Ms. McCabe’s husband passed away in 2008 from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Mr. McCabe had previously been denied a diagnostic biopsy at a London Hospital due to a bureaucratic rule blocking the treatment of patients from outside the Southwest LHIN.

Hudak repeated his call for the LHIN system to be replaced by one that is more sensitive to the needs of patients, seniors and families while directing resources away from bureaucracy and towards improved frontline care.

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– Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak

– Bob Bailey, Ontario PC MPP for Sarnia – Lambton

Quick Facts

• Dalton McGuinty created a new layer of bureaucracy with his so-called “Local Health Integration Networks” (LHINs). Since 2006-2007, more than $176 million health care dollars have been diverted away from Ontario families and directed towards salaries and administration at these boards.
• In 2006, 40 Liberal appointees to these local health boards made it on the Sunshine List. Between 2006 and 2009, total executive salaries at local health boards increased by 213%. 95 health board executives appeared on the 2008 Sunshine List with 15 executives making more than $200,000. The average salary of a local health board CEO is more than $261,000.