North East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN)

North East Local Health Integration Network. The North East LHIN is one of the largest of 14 LHINs in Ontario, responsible for planning, integrating and funding health care services for more than 565,000 people across 400,000 square kilometres and five sub-regions.

Ron Farrell - Board Chair

(Term: April 2017 to April 2020)

As the former Chair of the North East CCAC Board, Farrell brings with him extensive governance and health care experience, particularly in the home and community sector. He recently also served on the Council of Ontario College of Pharmacists and on the Board of the Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres. Farrell has been involved in community health care for more than 20 years, holding a wide range of senior positions with federal, provincial and territorial governments as well as the private sector. Change management in large organizations occupied more than half his career. He retired as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Order of Nurses of Canada and started a Chapter of CARP for Zoomers centered in North Bay and serving 4,000 members from Bracebridge to Kapuskasing. With the Canadian Red Cross, he was Director General, Atlantic Zone, National Director of Strategic and Operational Planning and Chief Information Officer. Prior to that he held the position of President and CEO of the Worker's Compensation Health and Safety Board and senior positions with the Territorial government.