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Damning new report suggests Ford has ‘no plan’ to end hospital staffing crisis
New report published by CUPE and OCHO suggest that Ontario must make significant investments to prevent the healthcare system of deteriorating any further. Ford's trajectory however only plans for 3% ver the next 4 years.
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'Sad sign of the times': Ontario forced to develop a protocol for hospital emergency department closures
Hospital emergency closures have become so commonplace in Ontario that the provincial government has had to create a protocol with checklists for steps that hospitals should follow before temporarily closing their emergency departments.
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Ontario Health Coalition
The Ontario Health Coalition's primary goal is to protect and improve our public health care system. They work to honour and strengthen the principles of the Canada Health Act. Through multiple scetion on this site, the reader is informed of current issues in healthcare.
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Six southwestern Ont. towns to see temporary emergency department closures next week
Another news article on ED closure in Ontario, summer 2022.
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Former Ontario premier Mike Harris is raking in profits from the long-term care system he helped create
Interesting article on the beginning and continued efforts by successive provincial government to privatize healthcare from the Harris' days.
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Canada’s governments exploit health care crisis of their own making to press for privatization
Ford's government has been opening multiple avenues on the privatization of healthcare in Ontario for the past 5 years. This excellent article by Lubao discusses how these "new" initiatives are not going to help the system... at all.
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What’s happening in ERs across Canada? Dispatches on wait times, crowding and closures
Interesting article where The Globe investigated the experiences of five patients in EDs across Canada.
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Doug Ford Led Ontario’s Health System Into a ‘State of Crisis’ in 2022
Article discussing how Ford's government didn't create the crisis in the Ontario healthcare system but are doing very little to help it.
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We calculated the number of Ontario’s ER closures this summer. Here’s what we found
Wallace in this investigative report presents a tally of Ontario's ED closures over the summer of 2022.
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Government cuts have created health-care crisis
Discussion on how underfunding OHIP by the government in Ontario has led to the current state of the healthcare system.