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The local health care sector is aiming for a spring start-up for a community Health Link program  for Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma District.  Sault Area Hospital CEO Ron Gagnon says Health Link will encourage greater collaboration between existing local health care providers with the Group Health Centre being the lead agency…

Gagnon says that 5% uses 60 to 65% of healthcare resources.  Part of the process will be identifying such patients and establishing a community wide care plan developed in part with them and their families along with their primary care providers as the plan can be shared across the community.  The idea is to have patients receive faster more coordinated care supported by a team of health care providers at all levels of the health care system.  It’s already in place in more than 80 other Ontario communties.