The Ontario Nurses' Association is out with its list of recommendations aimed at improving the health care system in rural and northern Ontario.
Vice-President Vicki McKenna says the Government needs a stronger plan.
"The government needs to address the root causes of some of the huge challenges in the health issues that people are presenting with," says McKenna. "These areas experience lower life expectancy, higher obesity rates and higher infant mortality rates than anywhere else in the province."
Among the recommendations include more funding toward the hiring of full-time nurses.
