• Hospitals' net expense will increase 3.5 per cent in 2009-10. This includes a 2.1 per cent increase in the overall base funding formula to meet the service requirements of hospitals
• $40 million in 2009-10 to high-growth hospitals to help increase hospital services in Ontario's fastest-growing communities to improve care and reduce wait times
• $361 million in 2009-10 to implement the comprehensive ER Wait Times Strategy
• $223 million in 2009-10 for the Aging at Home Strategy to provide support to seniors and their caregivers to stay health, live with dignity and independence, and also to ease Alternate Level of Care (ALC) pressures.

• $35 million over two years to create 22 nurse-practitioner-led clinics in addition to the three already announced
• 50 more Family Health Teams planned over the next two years
• $65 million, including $39 million provided in 2008-09, for increased home care, personal support and home-making services and enhanced integration better hospitals and Community Care Access Centres.

• Approximately $2 billion in the next three years to implement eHealth initiatives including the creation of an electronic health record by 2015
• More than 40 hospital projects are under construction, with over 15 expected to be completed in 2009-10
• Adding 1,750 long-term care beds in 10 communities across the province by 2012
• $35 million in capital investment to support the creation of 100 additional medical school spots. This initiative will be supported by associated operating funding.

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