Everything discussed in our recent article on Local Health Integration Networks – we believe. Actually, it’s more than just believing, we’re seeing it happen first hand. What scares us the most: while our conversations with the Ministry of Health, CCACs and LHINs tells us that the government is moving ahead, we keep hearing some people say, “It’s not happening”, or “LHINs won’t affect our organization” Leonard Domino & Associates understands your challenge. Sometimes, just doing the “day to day” in your organization is tough enough – never mind building and implementing a strategic plan based upon the government’s need for change. Perhaps, it’s not just that you are busy. Maybe, your organization has never had to partner with other health providers. Or, sometimes we hear about the internal struggle – boards saying one thing, the executive believing another and the patient left in the middle saying, “What are you doing to make sure the LHIN doesn’t reduce my care or service?”
Leonard Domino & Associates Offers Five Essentials Services That Will Assist Your Organization to Be a Leader as LHINs Move Forward:
1. Board and Executive Training
2. Organizational Strategic Planning: Analysis, Review and Implementation
3. Horizontal and Vertical Partnership Building
4. Sector Wide Coalition Formation
5. Expedition of Your Lobby Campaign
Each of these five services can be provided separately, in areas where you need help, or as a full service strategy. We understand that all organizations have strengths and areas where assistance can be best focused. We’d like to offer help where it makes sense for you and your organization.
1. Board and Executive Training
Sometimes it takes an outsider to share a new view and help build consensus. Leonard Domino & Associates, for over 20 years has been the preeminent supplier of hands on training seminars on the do’s and don’ts of government relations with organizations and their boards. Often, organizations are bottlenecked by indecision. Something as big as LHINs make that indecision even more of a hurdle. Sometimes, it’s not even about what you are trying to say to government, often it’s a struggle over how it’s done and by who. Our training seminar is customized to meet your organization’s needs. We don’t just present a cookie cutter – we’ll talk to your board, executive, and seminar participants prior to the seminar to establish what are the real contentious issues that need to be hammered out. We’ll make every attempt possible to understand:
• What are the issues important to your organization?
• Does your team currently have what it takes to survive LHINs, and where is advancement necessary?
You can be sure of one thing: after our training seminar, your organization will be singing from the same song sheet when it comes to negotiating with government.
2. Organizational Strategic Planning: Analysis, Review and Implementation
Leonard Domino & Associates is the one stop shop for building and implementing a strategic plan specific to your organization – and your success in the new LHIN world. We are known for getting to the bottom of things. Getting the answers you need, means asking the right questions first:
• In the eyes of your LHIN, why is your organization necessary or needed?
• How does your core competencies relate to the wider objectives of LHINs?
• Do your current standards and practices meet CCAC and LHIN requirements?
• What potential does your organization have that you may not be aware of in the context of LHIN health priorities?
• Who are the friends and foes of your organization?
A Leonard Domino & Associates analysis is not a 1000 page binder that no one will read. We will prepare short debriefings as information is gathered that will allow your organization to make sound, fast decisions.
3. Horizontal and Vertical Partnership Building
LHINs will make every attempt to ensure that organizations like yours will be connected to the whole system of health care – you can’t be an island. Remember, the LHIN mandate – is the patient or client in the right place at the right time. Connecting your organization to others will help build you into the new health system, and not leave you relegated to the past. Leonard Domino & Associates will:
• Identify and open working relationships with those in your immediate sector.
• Build working relationships with organizations in adjacent sectors that the LHINs will expect you to be integrated with.
• Arrange meetings with the senior executive from all relevant organizations.
By helping your organization to reach out to others, you will be well prepared as CCACs begin the process of tendering contracts. You will be able to build new relationships where they hadn’t existed in the past.
4. Sector Wide Coalition Formation
Strength comes in numbers.
There will be cases where sectors are either left out or forgotten while the reorganization of the entire health care system takes place. Leonard Domino & Associates can help your whole sector to bind together to organize a successful effort to get the necessary Ministry of Health funding into the hands of your funder – the LHINs. To build a strong coalition in your sector, we will:
• Identify and organize the key sector players to establish the priorities. This may include organizations that might compete with you for CCAC contracts.
• Strategically, organize your messages for maximum impact.
• Organize joint strategy meetings with the coalition partners.
• Actively participate and assist the coalition in arranging meetings and delivering the coalition’s messages to the government.
Essential to the success of any coalition – do all of the members share enough in common to make a compelling case to government. We’ll make sure the right players are at the table and that a consistent message is developed and delivered to the right people in government.
5. Expedition of Your Lobby Campaign
So, you’ve got a strategic plan already or know the players, but want to expedite the lobby campaign. You likely have a good understanding of your needs – but do you know the needs of government that can help advance your issues into the limelight of their decision making? Leonard Domino & Associates is a leader in providing an ethical and strategic approach to government relations. We have organized hundreds of successful lobby campaigns over the last 22 years. Ministry of Health, LHINs, and CCACs will each respectively make decisions that will impact your sector and your organization. Systemic changes of this magnitude will mean that every health funded organization will be lining up at door of government. Will you be at the front of the line or the back? We will assist your board and executive to make it onto the radar of government – Ministry of Health, LHINs and CCACs. We’ll identify the key and influential decision makers, arrange face to face meetings, and assist to make sure your messages are heard and understood through the working relationships we will help you to enhance with government. We’ll help to make it possible for your organization to succeed.