Patients First: Transformation in the HNHB LHIN

Donna Cripps, CEO of the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network will be our guest speaker.  Her topic will be "​Patients First: Health Care Transformation in the HNHB LHIN".

BIO for Donna Cripps
 
Donna Cripps joined the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant (HNHB) Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) as CEO October 18, 2010.
 
As the CEO of the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant (HNHB) Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), Donna Cripps leads the organization that plans, funds, and integrates the local health care system, with the goal of providing access to coordinated and high quality care for the more than 1.4 million people across Hamilton, Niagara, Haldimand, Brant, Burlington and Norfolk.
 
Prior to joining the HNHB LHIN in October 2010, Donna held two key positions at Hamilton Health Sciences as President of St. Peter’s Hospital and Executive Lead Rehabilitation and Seniors’ Health. While her extensive experience in clinical practice and executive leadership has provided Donna with a thorough understanding of health care delivery from both an operational and strategic perspective, it is the people and their health care needs and stories that drives Donna to want to make our health care system better.
 
Donna has been actively involved in many regional and provincial initiatives, including Co-Chair of the Behavioural Supports Ontario (BSO) Project Steering Committee, and of the Provincial Rehabilitative Care Alliance.  Donna is also a member of Ontario Telemedicine Network's Board of Governors.
 
Donna’s commitment to putting people first and to the ongoing pursuit of excellence in caring are her driving forces behind the pursuit of creating a health care system that helps keep people healthy, gets them good care when they are sick, and will be there for our children and grandchildren. ​