Community Engagement

Community Engagement is the foundation of all activity at the Central East LHIN.  Being more responsive to local needs and opportunities requires on-going dialogue and planning with those who use and deliver health services.  The links below will take you to current opportunities for involvement and also provide you with the background on the Community Engagement Activities. 

Stakeholder Consultation

Physician Consultation - updated November 3, 2008 

On September 22, 2008, the Ontario Medical Association and the Central East LHIN held a Physician Engagement Workshop, at the Deer Creek Golf Club in Ajax, so that physicians could learn about the Central East LHIN, its planning partner structures and key initiatives and priorities.   It also gave participants an opportunity to discuss how physicians and the LHIN can continue to build successful working partnerships. 

A report was prepared by the workshop facilitator, Michael Rowland of The Randolph Group and can be accessed by clicking on the link below.

Physician Engagement Workshop - Workshop Summary 

Physicians are invited to "Get Involved" with the Central East LHIN.  To learn more about these opportunities, please click here.

Mental Health and Addictions Service Delivery Model at Rouge Valley Health System

Please click here to find out how you can offer your input on the implementation of the mental health consolidation plan. By clicking on the link you will also be able to view presentations and feedback from the consultation sessions held earlier in April. 

Collaboratives, Networks, Task Groups

We have established new sustainable planning partnerships teams across the Central East LHIN community in order to harness local expertise in the identification of opportunities for health care improvements.   As equally important, these teams will provide to the LHIN a source of credible, relevant and achievable directions in a manner that is inclusive and transparent. By bringing people together to form new partnerships – transcending the traditional barriers of localism and individual institutions – a new and vibrant culture of care in the Central East LHIN has firmly begun to take hold. For more information, please click here.

New and existing partnership teams are also in place across the Central East LHIN to provide their support and expertise in improving and enhancing the public health care system through the implementation of the Integrated Health Service Plan (IHSP).  To learn more about these teams and opportunities for involvement, please see the information below.

Launch of the Central East Hospice Palliative Care Network - posted November 5, 2008 

Members of the hospice palliative care sector within Central East have embarked on a process to integrate the three predecessor End-of-life Care Networks operating in Central East (Durham Region End-of-Life Care Network; Haliburton, Kawartha and Pine Ridge End-of-Life Care Network; and Toronto Palliative Care Network-East Region). A Transitional Steering Committee has been working since November 2007 and is ready to recognize the three predecessor networks and launch the new Central East Hospice Palliative Care Network. A Planning Framework and Terms of Reference for the new network have been developed as well as the identification of the inaugural Steering Committee.

The recognition/launch day has been scheduled for November 12th, 2008. All members of the predecessor networks are encouraged to attend, as well as members of organizations who are direct providers of hospice palliative care or who provide care to hospice palliative care clients in the Central East region and who are interested in supporting the development of a comprehensive, integrated and coordinated system of hospice palliative care services that meets people’s needs.  To learn more about this event and your opportunity to participate, please click here.

The Foundation of Community Engagement in the Central East LHIN