Three years after it was launched,
thehealthline.ca is attracting thousands of visitors
a day, and is poised for significant expansion,
both in content and geographic coverage.
The website, which links people with accurate,
up-to-date information about health care and
wellness services in London and Middlesex, was
created by the Health Line Alliance, a strategic
partnership between Community Care Access
Centre of London and Middlesex (CCAC), St.
Joseph’s Health Care London, London Health
Sciences Centre, and the Middlesex-London
Health Unit.
In 2004, visitors to the website viewed more
than one million pages, a 52% increase from the
number of “page views” in 2003.
Beginning in mid-February, the site
will be the new home for Information London, and
feature an online directory of social services
sponsored by the City of London.
Thehealthline.ca will also continue to publish
Information London’s print publication, Help
Yourself Through Hard Times.
Also coming soon is a special
directory of London children’s health and social
services available in French, sponsored by the
Virtual Team Project.
Within weeks, the website will
expand to serve people living in Oxford County,
part of a staged regional expansion that will
ultimately include Elgin, Perth and Huron
Counties. The site will deliver information local to
each county, while also providing easy access to
region-wide services.
Michael Robbins, Project Coordinator of
thehealthline.ca, is excited about the website’s
potential. “We’ve got a model that works,” he
says. “Now we’re building on that success to serve
a wide range of information needs in our
communities. The future looks bright.”
For more information, contact:
Lisa Misurak, Manager, thehealthline.ca, (519)
641-5519, lisa.misurak@lm.ccac-ont.ca
Michael Robbins, Project Coordinator,
thehealthline.ca, (519) 432-1806