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LHINs Waste Millions on Failed Strategy While Long-Term Care Wait List Grows by 4,000 News LONDON – Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak today met with a group of home care service providers to discuss ideas on how to better provide seniors with access to proper health care. Dalton McGuinty’s LHINs have failed their first real test, mismanaging an Aging at Home strategy that has cost $250 million health care dollars, yet resulted in long wait times for seniors. After three years and $250 million, Dalton McGuinty’s LHINs have failed to make progress on the Aging at Home strategy’s goals of reducing the number of long-term care (LTC) patients and reducing emergency room wait times. Since the LHINs started managing the strategy, the provincial wait list for LTC beds has grown by 4,000 people and emergency room wait times remain above provincial targets. The South West LHIN, which represents London, spent nearly $25 million in the first three years the Aging at Home strategy, yet its wait list for long-term care has increased by over 100 people since the program began and wait times in London area emergency departments remain well above the provincial benchmark. Quotes “London seniors worked hard to build a better province. Today, in their retirement, they deserve a government that, in turn, is working hard for them. Dalton McGuinty and the South West LHIN have failed London seniors. Dalton McGuitny’s LHIN model is broken and has to go.” – Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak “An Aging at Home strategy should reduce the strain on Ontario long-term-care facilities and help more seniors stay in their own homes longer. Under the scandal-plagued LHIN bureaucracies, this program has instead become the latest example of health-care mismanagement and waste.” – Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak Quick Facts Since the LHINs started to manage the Aging at Home strategy, the wait list for long-term care beds (which has doubled under Dalton McGuinty to over 24,000) has grown by 4,000 people. The South West LHIN spent $24.7 million in the first three years of the Aging at Home strategy, yet its LTC wait list has increased by over 100 and London area ER wait times remain well above the provincial benchmark of eight hours. Since 2006, $176 million health care dollars have been spent on administrative expenses at all LHINs, including $12.2 million to run the South West LHIN. More Ways to Get Involved


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