Several hospitals in the region will benefit from an
increase in funding for the Northwest Local Health
Integration Network.
The Ministry of Health boosted the LHIN’s 2008-2009
funding by 4.8 percent or 17 million dollars.
The Lake of the Woods Hospital, Dryden Regional, and
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre will be
sharing almost 8 million dollars for offering cancer,
cardiac, cataract and MRI’s services.
Atikokan will see 26 thousand dollars for emergency
services, Dryden will see 63 thousand, Red Lake’s share is
almost 24 thousand and Sioux Lookout will receive 70-
thousand.
Base funding for all 13 Northwestern Ontario Hospitals
will increase 2.4 percent.
