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CK-Leamington Candidates Debate Health Care

(May 10, 2018) By: Kirk Dickinson, Blackburn News Candidates for the Chatham-Kent Leamington riding debate health care at Smitty’s Family Restaurant in Chatham, May 10, 2018. From left, Margaret Schleier, Mark Vercouteren, Jordan McGrail, and Rick Nicholls. (Photo courtesy of Chris Bright) With provincial election campaigns in full swing, the chair of the Chatham-Kent Registered Nurses’ […]

Time to fix health-care crisis, coalition says

(May 9, 2018) By: Tyler Kula, Sarnia Observer The head of the Ontario Health Coalition is pushing for all political parties to reinvest in hospitals and boost the number of nursing home beds in Ontario to fend off what she calls a crisis in health care. “What we’re saying is we have to turn the corner on […]

Health-care watchdog group calling for more hospital and nursing home funding

(May 8, 2018) By: Tyler Kula, Sarnia Observer Ontario Health Coalition Executive Director Natalie Mehra was in Sarnia Tuesday. It was a stop on her provincial tour calling for more investment in hospitals and long-term care. (Tyler Kula/Sarnia Observer) The head of the Ontario Health Coalition is pushing for all political parties to reinvest in […]

Health Coalition Says Hospital Care In Crisis

(May 8, 2018) By: Lee Michaels, Blackburn News Main entrance at Bluewater Health’s Sarnia hospital. Photo by Meghan Bond. The executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition says there are two major things the next provincial government must do to fix our broken health care system. Natalie Mehra stopped in Sarnia on Tuesday during her […]

Health funding must increase to deal with crisis, says Ontario Health Coalition

(May 8, 2018) By: Sharon Hill, Windsor Star Ontario’s health-care system is in crisis and it’s vital to get all political parties to commit to increasing funding for hospitals before the June 7 election, Ontario Health Coalition executive director Natalie Mehra said Monday. “At this point, the downsizing has simply gone too far,” Mehra told […]

Election Candidates To Weigh In On Health Care

(May 8, 2018) By: Sarah Cowan, Blackburn News Photo courtesy of © Can Stock Photo Inc. / jirsak With the provincial election less than a month away, local candidates will be quizzed this week on how they will address health care issues in the region. The Chatham-Kent Health Coalition is partnering with the Chatham-Kent Registered […]

Health Coalition on Pre-Election Tour

(May 7, 2018) By: Peter Langille, AM800 Ontario Health Coalition Executive Director Nathalie Mehra, speaking in Windsor, May 7, 2018 (by AM800’s Peter Langille) The Ontario Health Coalition is hoping to keep a focus on hospital funding in the upcoming provincial election. Executive Director Nathalie Mehra is in Windsor today speaking with community leaders. She […]

Rally held to put focus on healthcare for the provincial election

(May 5, 2018) By: CTV London Calling it a crisis in healthcare, protestors lined Commissioners Road in front of the London Health Sciences Centre Victoria Campus on Saturday morning. It was part of an effort to make hospital overcrowding a key issue in the upcoming provincial election. Members of the London Health Coalition are intent […]

Londoners rally to end overcrowding in Ontario hospitals

(May 5, 2018) By: Christian D’Avino, 980 CFPL Londoners joined the London Health Coalition Saturday for the Crisis in Health Care Rally Christian D’Avino / 980 CFPL Members of the London Health Coalition gathered at Victoria Hospital to rally for what they’re calling a crisis in Ontario’s healthcare system. The Crisis in Health Care Rally, which […]

Public health care watchdog launching in Waterloo Region

(May 4, 2018) By: CTV Kitchener The Ontario Health Coalition says it’s launching a new chapter in Waterloo Region. The non-partisan watchdog says its goal is to protect public health care. Executive director Natalie Mehra says hospital cuts in the province have been extreme. The Ontario Health Coalition says it will focus on turning […]

Palliative care inadequate for coming ‘silver tsunami’ concludes Hamilton report

(May 2, 2018) By: Joanna Frketich, The Hamilton Spectator Significant gaps in end-of-life care were found in a case study of Hamilton that concludes current infrastructure is inadequate to handle the palliative care needs of the “silver tsunami” of baby boomers drawing near. The hospital remains the most common place where people die in the […]

Municipal election, healthcare and residential schools, Bill Kelly Show

People who are wanting to run for mayor or city councillor in the upcoming fall municipal election are now eligible to register. This will be the first election under the new ward boundaries. Guest: John Best. Publisher of the Bay Observer. Healthcare is one of the hot button issues for this upcoming provincial election. The […]

CBC RADIO ONE INTERVIEW: For those who missed it: CBC Ontario Today show on overcrowded hospitals with OHC’s Natalie Mehra

The stories were shocking… and heartbreaking. Caller after caller on Ontario Today’s noon call-in show told CBC Ontario Today host Rita Celli and Ontario Health Coalition executive director Natalie Mehra about being left in broom closets, storage areas, a bathroom and hallways waiting for a hospital bed in overcrowded hospitals across Ontario. Family members told […]

What overcrowding in hospitals looks like in Ontario – CBC Radio One interview with Natalie Mehra, April 27, 2018

(May 2, 2018) The stories were shocking… and heartbreaking. Caller after caller on Ontario Today’s noon call-in show told CBC Ontario Today host Rita Celli and Ontario Health Coalition executive director Natalie Mehra about being left in broom closets, storage areas, a bathroom and hallways waiting for a hospital bed in overcrowded hospitals across Ontario. […]

Friends of Medicare discusses effects of for-profit clinics, The Lethbridge Herald, April 26, 2018

Friends of Medicare discusses effects of for-profit clinics The Lethbridge Herald Thu Apr 26 2018 Byline: Schnarr, J.W. How private clinics can affect public health care was discussed Monday night in Lethbridge during a town hall-style meeting held by Friends of Medicare. The group is on a four-stop tour to raise awareness around issues they […]

More is needed at Sydenham campus, Wallaceburg Courier Press, April 26, 2018

More is needed at Sydenham campus Wallaceburg Courier Press Thu Apr 26 2018 Section: News Byline: Shirley Roebuck, Source: Wallaceburg Courier Press I read with interest the article in last week’s Courier Press, titled “First step towards renewing Wallaceburg’s Sydenham Campus.” The article explained the long history of our hospital’s infrastructure and resistance to maintaining […]

Natalie Mehra on CBC Radio One – Ontario Today with Rita Celli at noon, Thursday April 26

Ontario Health Coalition executive director Natalie Mehra is on CBC radio’s Ontario Today show at noon today talking about the crisis of hospital overcrowding. It is a call-in show so please share your stories and thoughts

New private cardiology clinic unveiled to combat long wait times

(April 25, 2018) By: Sanjay Maru, CBC News People who have suffered a cardiac incident have a new place to receive treatment ? but it will come at a cost. The Windsor-Essex Rehabilitation & Wellness Centre was unveiled Wednesday during a grand opening. The program was first established as a pilot last year and is now being […]

Private clinics blur lines of care versus profit: FoM

(April 25, 2018) By: Gillian Slade, Medicine Hat News In the past two decades there has been a proliferation of private medical clinics that are potentially a violation of the Canada Health Act, said Friends of Medicare at a local public event Tuesday night. Private clinics typically provide medical care with “add-ons,” which blurs the […]

Island Voices: Extra-billing crackdown long overdue

(April 22, 2018) By: Edith Machattie And Rick Turner, Times Colonist The B.C. government is taking decisive action on an illegal activity known as “extra-billing,” bucking a years-long trend of ignoring illegal health-care fees charged to patients in B.C. On April 4, Health Minister Adrian Dix announced plans to enforce patient protections against extrabilling that […]

Groups come together about voicing concerns about proposed mega-hospital

(April 18, 2018) By: Rob Hindi, AM800 Philippa von Ziegenweidt, Natalie Mehra and Michael Hurley, April 17, 2018 (Photo by AM800’s Rob Hindi) More questions and concerns regarding the proposed location of the hospital project in Windsor-Essex. On Tuesday, Citizens For An Accountable Mega-Hospital Planning Process along with the Ontario Health Coalition, Ontario Council of […]

Coalition Forms To Challenge Hospital Site

(April 18, 2018) By: Ian Shalapata Michael Hurley, the president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE, addresses a full house at the University of Windsor’s School of Social Work on 17 April 2018. The public consultation forum was held to outline the drawbacks to the proposed health care plan for Windsor. Photo by John […]

Public Forum On New Hospital’s Location

(April 17, 2018) By: Adelle Loiselle, Blackburn News If you have concerns about the location of Windsor’s new acute care hospital on County Rd. 42, there is a public forum in Windsor to discuss it. The Citizens for an Accountable Mega-Hospital Planning Process, or CAMPP, is one of five community groups hosting a public meeting […]

HALLWAY HEALTH CARE

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RELEASE: Deeply concerned about Doug Ford’s planned revenue cuts, comparison of parties’ commitments on key health care issues

(April 13, 2018) Toronto – Following the release of Doug Fords “platform” the Ontario Health Coalition has tried to analyze how Mr. Ford’s plan will impact health care funding. Over the next four years, with four days until the provincial election we still have no firm commitment on the level of hospital funding, nor any […]

RELEASE: Doug Ford’s Figures “Way Off”: Coalition Deeply Concerned About His Statements on Hospitals in Northern Ontario

(April 13, 2018) On this week’s swing through Northwestern Ontario PC Party Leader Doug Ford cited wildly incorrect numbers for hospital bed costs and raised the spectre of another round of hospital bed cuts. Mr. Ford was quoted in Thunder Bay’s media yesterday falsely stating that comparable hospital beds cost $3,500 while long-term care beds […]

Liberals offer new drug and dental coverage for Ontarians without health plans, Toronto Star, March 28, 2018

(March 28, 2018) By: Rob Ferguson, Toronto Star Ontarians lacking workplace health insurance will get up to $700 a year to defray the cost of medicines and dentist visits starting in summer 2019 under the Wynne government’s pre-election budget. Augmenting a new OHIP+ pharmacare plan and the existing Healthy Smiles aid for needy families, the promised […]

Ontario pre-election budget promises new spending, multi-year deficits

(March 28, 2018) By: Shawn Jeffords and Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press TORONTO — As it braces to fight for re-election this spring, Ontario’s Liberal government has rolled out a spending package that targets nearly every demographic while plunging the province back into deficit, with the books expected to stay in the red for six […]

RELEASE: Good news budget but most health care funding is back-end loaded to years away: Coalition concerned about one-year bump up followed by austerity

(March 28, 2018) TORONTO – Emerging from the budget lock up this afternoon, Ontario Health Coalition spokespeople were positive but cautious about the health care funding announcements. Overall, the budget plans a one-year bump up in funding and several high-profile public service funding and program announcements. But the budget also contains a number of tax cuts, […]

MEDIA ADVISORY: OHC to respond to Ontario Budget

TORONTO – Natalie Mehra, Executive Director of the Ontario Health Coalition, will be available for comment on the Ontario Budget at Queen’s Park today, March 28th after 4:00 p.m. Dana Boettger, OHC Communications, 416-441-2502 The Ontario Health Coalition and local coalitions throughout Ontario are working on fighting hospital cuts, protecting public health care for all, […]

Scarborough Liberal MPPs again promise to ‘champion’ hospital projects

(March 26, 2018) By: Mike Adler, toronto.com In a pre-election speech, Scarborough-Guildwood MPP Mitzie Hunter stressed Ontario’s Liberal government and its five Scarborough MPPs “will champion” improvements to the area’s only acute-care hospital. “We have to listen, and we listen to our communities,” Hunter told staff at Scarborough and Rouge Hospital’s General campus beside another […]

RELEASE: Better but not cured: Health Coalition responds to Wynne pre-election funding announcement

(March 22, 2018) Toronto – Today’s hospital funding announcement is a move in the right direction but still falls short, the Ontario Health Coalition reported at Queen’s Park after the announcement. Premier Kathleen Wynne announced a 4.6 per cent increase in hospital funding to be unveiled in next week’s provincial Budget, just weeks in advance […]

Ailing Ontario man stuck in U.S. hospital because insurance company can’t find bed back home

(March 20, 2018) By: Ieva Lucs, CBC News Lilian and Todd Hrabchak are seen here in a Florida hospital on March 20. They are trying to get back home to Toronto but were told by their insurance company that there are no beds available. An elderly Toronto man is stuck in a Florida hospital, according […]

RELEASE: OHC supports public dental care

(TORONTO) “A public dental plan, like public health care, is fundamentally about equity. It’s about providing all people with the opportunity to live healthy, dignified lives, and fulfil their human potential.” Natalie Mehra, Executive Director OHC “Public dental care to cover everyone is welcome news from NDP Leader Andrea Horwath,” says Natalie Mehra, Executive Director of […]

Patient advocacy group calls for change as hospital overcrowding leaves Ontarians stranded abroad, 980 CFPL London, March 6, 2018

(March 6, 2018) By: Staff 980 CFPL As Ontarians continue to hear nightmare stories about residents stuck in overseas hospitals, politicians and advocacy groups are calling out for change. Over the last week, the sagas of two London men came to light after they were stuck abroad because local hospitals didn’t have beds available […]

Unions, doctors and health care advocates call for pharmacare

(March 2, 2018) By: Global Newswire The Canadian Labour Congress will host a town hall discussion on pharmacare from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7 at the Liuna Station in Hamilton. The event will feature CLC President Hassan Yussuff on why Canada’s unions believe everyone with a health card should have prescription drug […]

UPDATE: Time To Care Rally Video

Almost a thousand people came out to push Bill 33 over the top and win a regulated minimum care standard of an average of 4-hours hands-on care per day for long-term care (nursing home) residents. The crowd was joined by France Gélinas, NDP Health Critic and sponsor of the Bill which has already passed 1st […]

ACTION UPDATE: Pharmacare Ontario Tour

(February 22, 2018) Over the next few months, the Ontario Health Coalition will join the Canadian Labour Congress in the Ontario leg of a national tour to more than 25 communities. Featuring Canada’s foremost pharmacare experts and advocates, these important discussions will address why we need a prescription drug plan that covers all Canadians. Click […]

Patients make political push to save Cardiac Fitness Institute CBC News, Feb 23, 2018

(February 23, 2018) By: Andrew Lupton, CBC News The fight to save the Cardiac Fitness Institute at Victoria Hospital is increasingly drawing attention from Queen’s Park politicians with a June 7 election looming. A group of patients gathered outside the grounds of Victoria Hospital Friday to oppose a plan to close down CFI, which many credit […]

Area MPPs, health coalition join foes of Cardiac Fitness Institute closing for Victoria Hospital demonstration The London Free Press, Feb 23, 2018

(February 23, 2018) By: The London Free Press Dozens of patients and politicians disregarded gloomy weather and a mid-afternoon start time to gather Friday in front of London’s Victoria Hospital to protest the planned closing of the Cardiac Fitness Institute. Both hospital brass and Ontario’s ruling Liberals bore the brunt of the anger as patients […]

UPDATE: TIME TO CARE RALLY – February 27, 2018 at 12 p.m., Queen’s Park

Time to Care Rally So far we have hundreds coming. But we need more than that. This time, every person counts. PLEASE COME OUT TIME TO CARE RALLY February 27, 2018 12 p.m. Queen’s Park GET ON A BUS – THEY ARE COMING FROM ALL OVER ONTARIO Please see the list below. You must reserve […]

Flu outbreaks lifted at Windsor Regional Hospital, but overcrowding continues, CBC News, Feb 13, 2018

(February 13, 2018) By: CBC News Influenza A outbreaks in two units at the Windsor Regional Hospital have been lifted, but staff are continuing to struggle with overcrowding. The outbreaks in Unit 2N and Unit 7M were declared on Feb. 2 after hospital-acquired respiratory infections were confirmed in at least six people. Restrictions for patient transfers and […]

ISSUE UPDATE: Ontario Health Coalition Succeeds in Protecting & Strengthening Ontario’s Ban on Private Hospitals

(February 9, 2018) We sent out an update in early December, but it appears that many of you did not get it. Here is the final update on our campaign in late November/early December to restore Ontario’s ban on private clinics after the government removed it in their omnibus health care bill that was brought […]

BACKGROUNDER: CALL TO ACTION: Take these actions to win improved long-term care in Ontario asap: Pass Bill 33!

It’s Time to Care: Your Support Can Help Us Win Improved Care Standards in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes Now Not Enough Care As you know, the key issue for residents, families, care workers and advocates in long-term care is that there simply is not enough care. For more than a decade, we have been advocating to […]

Hospital bed money not enough: Nickel Belt MPP, Sudbury Star, Feb 3, 2018

(February 3, 2018) By: Sudbury Star Staff ‘Hallway medicine’ in Ontario and Sudbury will continue, the NDP’s Health critic and Nickel Belt MPP says. France Gélinas said Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins’ announcement Friday to extend provincial funding for 1,235 ‘temporary’ hospital beds in the province for one year isn’t enough. She said the $187 […]

RELEASE: Health Minister’s hospital bed announcement welcome but it is only a temporary band aid, more is needed: Health Coalition

Health Minister’s hospital bed announcement welcome but it is only a temporary band aid, more is needed: Health Coalition (February 2, 2018) Toronto – “Although the Minister’s announcement today promising to extend funding for 1,235 ‘temporary’ hospital beds for one year is a positive step it is only a temporary band aid that will not […]

Ontario pledges $187M to ease hospital crowding next year

(February 2, 2018) By: Kate McGillivray, CBC News Five months after committing $100 million to ease crowding in Ontario’s hospitals ahead of this winter’s flu season, Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced that another $187 million will be coming in the next fiscal year to continue to tackle the problem. The money will be spent on […]

URGENT ACTION ALERT: New Bill Allows Private For-Profit Hospitals & More Private For-Profit Clinics

(November 23, 2017) The Ontario government is moving forward with legislation that lifts the ban on private hospitals, rolls private hospitals in with private clinics and renames them, offensively, Community Health Facilities, and makes it easier for private hospitals and clinics to expand and more difficult for the Minister to stop them. This legislation was brought […]

URGENT UPDATE: With No Public Consultation Ontario’s Government has Introduced Massive New Legislation that Lifts the Ban on Private Hospitals and Changes the Ambulance Act, Long-Term Care Homes Act and Retirement Homes Act, among others

(November 13, 2017) The government introduced the legislation last month and it has passed second reading. The Standing Committee on General Government is holding only four days of public hearings, only in Toronto. The Ontario Health Coalition will be presenting to the Standing Committee this Thursday. Timelines are extremely tight, but it is still possible […]

RELEASE: “The Worst Overcrowding We Have Ever Seen” in Ontario’s Hospitals: Patients’ and Coalition’s Claims Supported by Release of New Data on London Hospitals

(November 13, 2017) London – Health coalition advocates, concerned about reports that London Health Sciences Centre was running at alarming rates of overcrowding in September, asked their local MPPS to look into the issue. London MPPs Teresa Armstrong and Peggy Sattler arranged for a freedom of information request to access hospital data. The numbers are […]

Exec Slams Ontario Health System

(November 10, 2017) By: John Divinski, Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre Public health care in Ontario is moving in the wrong direction and people need to stand up and demand change. So says the Executive Director of the Ontario Health Coalition Natalie Mehra, speaking at the monthly meeting of the Southport Canadian Federation of University Women […]

Long term care beds coming too late, say health policy experts

(November 10, 2017) By: Joanna Frketich, Hamilton Spectator Beds are needed now, as Hamilton and Burlington alone have about 1,900 people waiting for long-term care. – Getty Images/iStockphoto The Liberal government’s promise of thousands of long-term care beds over the next decade is too little and far too late, say health advocates and policy experts. […]

How Ontario’s home care plan would help a union that backs the Liberals

(November 7, 2017) By: Mike Crawley, CBC News Personal support workers employed by new provincial home care agency would likely join SEIU You would expect the Wynne Liberals would shout from the rooftops when they make a change that gets the public sector to deliver more of our publicly funded health care. Yet the government’s […]

Provincial government plans to create new home care agency

(November 6, 2017) By: Kim Zarzour Personal care providers concerned new crown agency will add another level of bureaucracy Plans for a new government agency for personal support workers has raised both hope and concern for Ontario’s burgeoning personal support worker system – Shutterstock A shake-up is in the works for Ontario’s troubled PSW system […]

RELEASE: Public Home Care Would Benefit Ontarians Despite Claims of Vested Interests/For-Profit Home Care Companies: Health Coalition Calls for More Details

(November 6, 2017) Toronto – A leaked presentation from the Ministry of Health revealed by CBC today indicates that the government is planning some sort of public home care agency for personal support work in the home. The Ontario Health Coalition has been advocating for public home care since the 1990s and reacted with cautious […]

All party support of Time to Care Act is applauded in Peterborough

(November 4, 2017) By: Global News Staff In what is seen as a victory for Ontario’s seniors, Bill 33 passed its second reading this week. Introduced to the legislature at Queen’s Park by NDP MPP France Gelinas, the private member’s bill would see residents of the province’s long-term care facilities receive four hours of hands-on care […]

VIDEO: Impassioned debate in legislature on hospital cuts featuring quotes from OHC

(November 2, 2017) Analysis The Ontario Health Coalition’s media release was featured in an impassioned debate in the Legislature. Following upon revelations that more than 4,300 patients were treated on stretchers in hallways and other makeshift areas in the first four months of this year in Brampton’s hospital, many waiting 40 – 70 hours for […]

RELEASE: Thousands of Patients Lining Hospital Hallways in Brampton “Code Gridlock” Just the Tip of the Iceberg

(October 31, 2017) Coalition Calls for Long-Term Plan to Reinvest & Rebuild Hospital Bed Capacity Toronto – A memo obtained by the NDP, released in the media today, reveals that more than 4,300 patients stayed on stretchers in hospital corridors and the like for significant lengths of time, often waiting 40 – 70 hours for […]

Pre-election hospital bed funding ‘cynical’: OHC

(October 28, 2017) By: Antonella Artuso, Toronto Sun Empty bed at The Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre in Ottawa Friday Oct. 27, 2017. The Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre, The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) and the Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) will announce the launch of an innovative project to improve the quality […]

BATRA: Wynne Liberals using our cash to get re-elected

(October 30, 2017) By: Adrienne Batra, Toronto Sun Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne tours the Niagara Catholic District School Board’s Niagara Launch Centre located at Seaway Mall in Welland on October 12, 2017.Michelle Allenberg/Welland Tribune/Postmedia Network Here’s a not-so-hidden secret, the Ontario Liberals are going to use your money to ensure they get re-elected in 2018. […]

Stakeholders applaud investment in hospital

(October 29, 2017) By: Steph Crosier, Kingston Whig-Standard KINGSTON – The province’s announcement Friday that it will be contributing more than $500 million to redevelop Kingston General Hospital is great news for the city, says the mayor, the hospital workers’ union and the local health coalition. “This is so important,” Health Minister Eric Hoskins said on […]

Canada’s health system serves as model for Sanders – but faces troubles of its own

(October 28, 2017) By: Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian Bernie Sanders is visiting Toronto this weekend as he pushes universal healthcare in the US. Photograph: Eric Thayer/Reuters Bernie Sanders will arrive in Toronto this weekend for a crash course in an unrivalled point of pride for most Canadians: the country’s healthcare system. The visit – which will include […]

Code Gridlock: Hospitals “bursting at the seams” heading into flu season

(October 28, 2017) By: Joanna Frketich, Hamilton Spectator Hamilton’s hospitals are alarmingly overcrowded before the sickest season of the year even starts. St. Joseph’s Healthcare had 26 per cent more patients than medical beds in August, which is supposed to be one of the quieter months. Across the city, hospitals opened an average of 86 […]

Ontario Health Coalition Arrives In Windsor

(October 26, 2017) By: Ian Shalapata, The Square Windsor residents recounted their health care stories at the central branch of the Windsor Public Library during the Ontario Health Coalition provincial tour, on 25 October 2017. Photo by Ian Shalapata. (WINDSOR, ON) – There were few empty chairs when the Ontario Health Coalition hosted the Windsor stop […]

Ontario Health Coalition hears from Windsor residents

(October 26, 2017) By: CTV News Windsor The Ontario Health Coalition is getting ready for the next provincial election. The coalition is conducting a province-wide tour to hear stories from residents about the current state of public health care, and representatives stopped in Windsor on Wednesday. Some of the residents who spoke expressed concerns about […]

Even though it’s temporary, Peterborough Regional Health Centre welcomes new provincial funding for 20 more beds during flu season

(October 25, 2017) By: Joelle Kovach, The Peterborough Examiner Peterborough Regional Health Centre plans to use $1.37 million it’s about to receive from the province to add 20 more beds during “surge season” this winter, states a release from the hospital – meaning the money will be spent within a few months. A press release from PRHC […]

Hospital beds too few, too ‘stopgap’

(October 24, 2017) By: Jim Moodie, The Sudbury Star A promise from Queen’s Park to boost the number of beds in hospitals — including 16 more at Health Sciences North — is welcome news, but a move that doesn’t go nearly far enough. That’s the position of Natalie Mehra, who has been pushing for years […]

Ontario hospitals getting more beds, $140 million in funding

(October 24, 2017) By: Toronto Metro Staff Health Minister Eric Hoskins has announced $140 million in funding to make more hospital beds available and enhance home care services. PETER POWER / FOR THE TORONTO STAR Two patients share a room, formerly a sun room, on the fifth floor of Hamilton General Hospital last spring. Many of […]

Londoners to voice opinions on local hospitals

(October 24, 2017) By: Global News Staff The Ontario Health Coalition wants to hear from Londoners about their experiences with local hospitals. The organization is touring the province gathering feedback from patients, their families and hospital workers to find out what’s working, what’s not, and how they think things could be improved in hospitals across […]

Ontario Health Coalition gathering input on ways to bring the public health care system back to life

(October 24, 2017) By: Linda Holmes, Bay Today ‘There are gaps in services and funding which lead to less than ideal care for our most vulnerable citizens throughout the province’ Wife of Long Term Care resident Ann McIntyre spends four to five hours a day with her 70-year-old husband who was admitted to a Long […]

Hamiltonians share hospital concerns

Posted: October 23, 2017 By: Natalie Paddon, The Spec In this file photo from August, Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, speaks during a media conference. – Hamilton Spectator file photo Before last December, Suzanne Clancy never had reason to learn how to navigate the ins and outs of the local hospital […]

L’Ontario financera 2000 lits supplémentaires pour désengorger les hôpitaux

Posted: October 23, 2017 Radio Canada, by Caroline Bourdua Plus de 2000 lits et places supplémentaires seront financés par la province, afin de préparer les hôpitaux à la saison de la grippe et pour aider à désengorger les établissements dont des lits sont occupés par des patients en attente d’une place dans un centre d’accueil. […]

Province investing $140-million to create new hospital beds across Ontario

(October 23, 2017) By: Durham Radio News Staff To help ease the pressure on overcrowded hospital wards, the province is creating 1,200 new beds across Ontario. 22 beds will be at the Lakeridge Health Oshawa site and there will be short-term transitional care spaces provided at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences in Whitby. […]

Ontario government announcement sees 56 hospital beds coming county-wide

(October 23, 2017) By: Orillia Packet The Ontario government announced the addition of more than 1,200 new hospital beds Monday morning, 56 of which will be found in Barrie, Orillia and northern Simcoe County. The funding, revealed by Minister of Health Dr. Eric Hoskins in Toronto, will see more than 2,000 additional beds and spaces […]

Hospitals getting more beds, more funding

(October 23, 2017) By: Theresa Boyle, Toronto Star Health Minister Eric Hoskins has announced $140 million in funding to take pressure off of overwhelmed hospitals. The Ontario government has come to the rescue of overwhelmed hospitals with more money and beds — just as flu season is starting and pressure on the sector is growing […]

Ontario Health Coalition brings hospital hearings to Hamilton

(October 23, 2017) By: Ken Mann, AM 900 CHML Residents are being asked to share their hospital stories during a public hearing on Monday in downtown Hamilton. The event is being hosted by the Ontario Health Coalition which has been travelling the province and collecting stories that executive director Natalie Mehra describes as ranging from […]

RELEASE: Wynne Government’s Hospital Bed Announcement a Temporary Band-Aid But Health Coalition Slams Expanding Health Care Privatization

(October 23, 2017) Toronto – The Ontario Health Coalition congratulated the Health Minister for recognizing the crisis in Ontario’s hospitals and announcing 1,200 new hospital beds today. However, the coalition cautioned that this is only temporary band-aid that will partially alleviate the crisis but not solve it. One-fourth of the hospital money announced today was […]

Cannabis and opioid crisis on agenda as health ministers meet in Edmonton

(October 19, 2017) By: Kim Trynacity, CBC News Cannabis and opioid crisis on agenda as health ministers meet in Edmonton Funding not on the table this time. Instead ministers to focus on issues One day before Canada’s ministers of health gather in Edmonton, the Canadian Health Coalition and Ontario Health Coalition released a report showing […]

Universal Healthcare : A Pride at Risk

(October 22, 2017) By: Doly Begum, Canadian Bangladeshi News Tommy Douglas, whom many consider to be the greatest Canadian in history, believed that every Canadian deserved the right to quality healthcare regardless of their social and economic circumstances. Known as “the father of Medicare,” Douglas fought relentlessly for a better Canada, which included universal healthcare […]

Registered nurses in Ontario feeling pressure of hospital cuts

(October 19, 2017) By: Heidi Westfield, Ottawa Citizen As a registered nurse, Angela Spiler has seen first-hand the impact of hospital staffing cuts in Ontario. Over the past few years, there has been a significant drop in the number of RNs in her workplace – a large, municipal hospital outside of Toronto. The number of […]

Heartache over a broken health care system

(October 22, 2017) By: Jennifer Hamilton-McCharles, The Nugget The public voices their concerns and shares their stories during a provincial tour Heartache over a broken health care system The golden years for many seniors are anything but golden. Little community support and few services at a reasonable cost. Understaffed long-term care homes, with nurses who […]

RELEASE & REPORT: The Elephant at the Health Ministers’ Meetings: How Will Provinces Cope with $31 Billion Cut

(October 18, 2017) New National Report Outlines the Huge Cost of the Failed Health Accord As Health Ministers from across Canada meet in Edmonton today, Canada’s Health Coalitions released a report showing the recent bilateral health schemes pushed through by the Trudeau government have come at a huge cost. The report “Health Accord Breakdown: Costs […]

Your opninions on Hospital care

(October 16, 2017) By: Mary Thomas, Quinte News Anyone interested in improving hospital care will have an opportunity to make their opinions known at a public meeting in Trenton this week. The Ontario Health Coalition is holding a public consultation on hospital reform and improvement. The organization is gathering ideas for reform to improve funding, access, and quality […]

Mental health services run ‘thin’

(October 13, 2017) By: Jodi Lundmark, The Chronicle Journal The need for more immediate mental health-care services in Thunder Bay was one of the topics brought to the attention of the Ontario Health Coalition during a public hearing on Thursday. The coalition is hosting a series of public hearings on how to improve public hospitals […]

Health coalition hopes to continue momentum

(October 11, 2017) By: Allan Brenner, The Standard While there’s still room for improvement, Natalie Mehra said the Ontario government seems to be responding to concerns about hospitals across the province. “I feel hopeful,” said Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, a group of activists working to improve the public health-care system. For […]

Coalition Collecting Healthcare Stories

(October 11, 2017) By: The Square Windsor’s Independent News Source (WINDSOR, ON) – The Ontario Health Coalition wants to collect stories from patients, families, and hospital staff, and organize them to generate a democratic public debate about the changes needed to protect and improve local public hospital services. The coalition has spent the last decade […]

Collecting good, bad stories ahead of provincial election

(October 11, 2017) By: North Bay Nugget Staff The Ontario Health Coalition is collecting stories from patients, families and hospital staff, and organizing them to generate an election debate about the changes needed to protect and improve local public hospital services. To that end, it has planned a series of public forums throughout the province, […]

Public urged to tell their hospital stories at Oct. 25 Windsor meeting

(October 8, 2017) By: Jason Kryk, Windsor Star The Ontario Health Coalition is holding a public meeting on Oct. 25 to hear stories from Windsor people about their hospital experiences and their ideas for improving and preserving hospital services. t says Ontario has suffered the worst hospital cuts in the country. “These changes to our […]

Public invited to provide feedback about hospital performance

(October 6, 2017) By: Leith Dunick, tbnewswatch.com Ontario Health Coalition holding hearings across Ontario this month in advance of next year’s provincial election. Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (FILE). THUNDER BAY – The public is being asked for feedback on local hospitals. The Ontario Health Coalition will hold public sessions across the province throughout […]

OHC looking for input in reforming hospitals

(October 3, 2017) By: Wallaceburg Courier Press Staff The Ontario Health Coalition is looking for public input on reforming public hospitals in the province. They will be hosting public meetings across the province, including a stop in Wallaceburg on Oct. 18. In a press release, the OHC said they are looking for ideas on how […]

Ontario considers reopening Toronto hospital to help with overcrowding

(September 27, 2017) By: Justin Giovannetti, The Globe and Mail The Ontario government could reopen a Toronto hospital that was mothballed only two years ago as health professionals and opposition parties warn that an overcrowding crisis at health-care institutions across the province is reaching dangerous levels. The Humber River Hospital site on Finch Ave. was closed […]

Ontario considers reopening Toronto hospital to help with overcrowding

(September 28, 2017) By: Justin Giovannetti, The Globe and Mail The Humber site might not be alone to reopen as a number of sites across Ontario are being considered for expansion or reactivation, Health Minister Eric Hoskins said Wednesday at Queen’s Park. The Ontario government could reopen a Toronto hospital that was mothballed only two […]

Older Persons Day a time to push for change

(September 28, 2017) By Natalie Mehra, Executive Director In May, The Hamilton Spectator reported that for the first time in Hamilton and Ontario, seniors outnumber children. In fact, in Hamilton, Burlington and Grimsby almost one in every five people is 65 or older. Hamilton is slightly greyer than the rest of Ontario and the proportion […]

‘Crisis in care’: Ontario looks to tackle hospital bed crunch

(September 27, 2017) By: Mike Crawley, CBC News Health Ministry looking at old Humber River Regional building as intermediate care site The Finch Avenue site of the Humber River Regional Hospital in Toronto is no longer being used, after a new facility was opened in 2015. (Sébastien St-Francois/Radio-Canada) Ontario is considering a plan to urgently transform […]

International Day of Older Persons to be celebrated Friday at Hamilton City Hall

(September 24th, 2017) By: The Hamilton Spectator Hamilton City Hall, June 2015 – photo by Gord Bowes International Day of Older Persons is being marked Friday at Hamilton City Hall. The focus of the event is seniors health care issues, including home care, long term care, palliative care, hospital cuts, pharmacare and dementia. It will […]

EVENT: Annual Health Action Assembly and Conference

Reforming Health Care in the Public Interest Saturday, November 18, 2017 – 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Assembly Sunday, November 19, 2017 – 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Conference Sheraton Centre Hotel Toronto 123 Queen Street W. At the Assembly we will discuss and debate our action plan for the next year. At the conference […]

Coalition fights to preserve free health care

(August 28, 2017) By: M. McKinnon, Atikokan Progress What’s a giant teddy bear got to do with health care? “We can’t ‘bear’ to lose medicare” says the Ontario Health Coalition, which has for nearly a decade been fighting off any erosion to Canada’s free medical care system. Three coalition officials made Atikokan their first stop […]

‘Bear’ Helping to send message

(August 16, 2017) By: Duane Hicks, Fort Frances Times A giant teddy bear is helping to raise awareness about the threat of health-care privatization in the region with the slogan: “We Can’t Bear to Lose Medicare.” Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, and Jules Tupker, co-chair of the Thunder Bay Health Coalition, […]

EVENT: Public Consultation on Hospital Reform

(August 12, 2017) Now is the time when we can make a difference Organizations and individuals are invited to attend and submit oral or written submissions on reforming Ontario’s hospitals in the public interest. We are holding public hearings across the province. Your input will be used to help create a report on reforming hospitals […]

Pressure on Ontario to ‘cut the cuts’ on hospital funding

(August 9, 2017) By: Anthony Urciuoli, Global News The Ontario Health Coalition says it will be putting pressure on the provincial government this fall to “cut the cuts” being made to hospital funding. Executive Director of the Coalition, Natalie Mehra, says Hamilton’s hospitals are at a crisis point. “For the last four years, hospital funding has […]

RELEASE: Hamilton’s Hospitals Have Passed the Tipping Point: Urgent campaign launched to stop $27-million in cuts

(August 8, 2017) Hamilton – Hamilton’s hospitals are already beyond their tipping point and another massive set of cuts is “reckless and irresponsible”, reported advocates today in a press conference. The Ontario Health Coalition joined leaders from the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE to warn the public about the newest cuts which amount to $27 […]

RELEASE: Health Coalition Responds to Wettlaufer Inquiry Announcement

(August 1, 2017) Toronto – The Ontario government appointed Justice Eileen Gillese from the Ontario Court of Appeal to head a Public Inquiry into the murders of eight long-term care residents by Elizabeth Wettlaufer. The Ontario Health Coalition responded by raising concerns about the duration and the narrow mandate of the inquiry, noting that in […]

Controversial for-fee service connects Ontario doctors and patients via video chat

(July 10, 2017) By: Andrew Lupton, CBC News Critics say Maple only improves doctor access for those who can afford it Tired of seeing his patients wait hours in an emergency room to see a doctor about a minor ailment or a prescription re-fill, Dr. Brett Belchetz felt there must be a better way. Now he heads Maple, a service that, […]

EVENT: We Can’t “Bear” to Lose Public Medicare – Northwestern Ontario tour

(July 2, 2017) We Can’t “Bear” to Lose Public Medicare Last fall, Jeff Hanks, co-chair of the London Health Coalition spotted a giant teddy bear in Costco. His idea, to create the slogan “We Can’t ‘Bear’ to Lose Medicare” and do a media event with it to educate the public about the threat of health […]

RELEASE: Inquiry Should Look into All Recent Homicides, Systemic Issues in Long-Term Care: Health Coalition

(June 28, 2017) The Ontario Health Coalition is advocating for the public inquiry that the Ontario government has called as a result of the murders in long-term care homes in Woodstock and London be broad enough to cover the systemic issues that have contributed to a context in Ontario’s long-term care homes in which there […]

If we don’t fix medicare, we may lose it: Editorial

(June 16, 2017) By: STAR EDITORIAL BOARD – The Star It is a source of national pride that in Canada health care is supposedly provided based on need, not on ability to pay. But recent evidence suggests the principle of equal care for all is in increasing jeopardy. Across the country, private clinics are popping up […]

Union wants action on illegal health fees

(June 15, 2017) By: Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International Canada has a publicly-funded health care system, but there are several private clinics that charging extra fees for faster service that should be free. Because of budget shortfalls in many provinces, there have been cuts to services in hospitals. Long wait times In some cases, the number […]

Government must take action against private clinic user fees, OPSEU says

(June 15, 2017) The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) is calling on the provincial government to take action immediately against private clinics that are charging patients illegal user fees for medically necessary services. In a damning report released this week, the Ontario Health Coalition identified 88 private clinics across the country that charge such […]

Group stands up for Medicare

(June 15, 2017) By: Sandi Krasowski, The Chronicle Journal Members of the Ontario Health Coalition arrived at Thunder Bay City Hall carrying an enormous teddy bear that has become the emblem of their Ontario tour to draw attention to health care privatization. Natalie Mehra, the executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, said it all began […]

Jumping the Queue. The Ontario Health Coalition releases Report on Escalation of Health Care Privatization

(June 14, 2017) By: Lynne Brown – Sault Online The Ontario Health Coalition has conducted a cross-Canada study that includes the results of surveys of 136 private hospitals, diagnostic and “boutique” physician clinics, and with almost 400 individual patients in Ontario. The results of the survey are found in a recently released report titled ‘Private Clinics and the […]

Healthcare privatization fight arrives in Oshawa

(June 14, 2017) By: Joel Wittnebel, The Oshawa Express We can’t bear to lose medicare. That slogan adorned the placard tied around the neck of a seven-foot tall teddy bear that arrived at Lakeridge Health Oshawa, as the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) continues to spread its messaging about the threat of health care privatization. The […]

Coalition concerned that privatization will lead to downfall of public health care

(June 13, 2017) Members of the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) were in Chatham recently as part of its ‘We Can’t Bear to Lose Medicare’ campaign, with a warning about the threat privatization poses to Canada’s public health-care system. Peter Boyle, a volunteer member of the OHC touring with the bear, met with local coalition members […]

Extra-billing causes hardship and must be stopped, says OFL

(June 13, 2017) By: Market Wired The OFL supports the call by the Ontario Health Coalition for better regulation and enforcement of the Canada Health Act to prevent the charging of user fees across Canada. A recent survey conducted by the Ontario Health Coalition, showed that 88 clinics across Canada are charging unlawful user fees. […]

Canada’s Health Minister Calls Out BC for Extra-Billing by Doctors

(June 13, 2017) By: Kyle Duggan Health Minister Jane Philpott condemned extra-billing by Canadian doctors at a gathering of healthcare and hospital professionals in Vancouver Monday, singling out B.C. as a province that needs to stem the growing practice. At the national HealthcareCan conference in Vancouver, Philpott responded to media reports that the practice has been […]

Private clinic fees threatening public health, P.E.I. coalition warns

(June 13, 2017) By: The Guardian CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. – At least 88 private health-care clinics in six provinces charge extra user fees that amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars for patients, a new study has found. The results of the cross-country survey have prompted health coalitions, including P.E.I.’s, to warn that challenges posed by […]

Private health care unbearable

(June 12, 2017) By: Allan Benner, The Standard The enormous teddy bear attracted attention almost immediately after it was set up at the corner of James and King streets in St. Catharines, Monday morning. It was the impact the volunteers from the Ontario Health Coalition were counting on. “I was wondering what was going on here,” […]

Jane-Finch ER site lies dormant almost a year after closure

(June 12, 2017) By: Victoria Gibson, The Star It’s been one year since the parking lot outside the Finch Ave. hospital went from an ambulance hub to a pedestrian shortcut. At 7:30 a.m. on Friday, commuters cut through the empty lot to reach a bus stop on Oakdale Rd. An hour later, students skirted across […]

Health Collation warns of privatizing health-care

(June 12, 2017) By: David Gough, Postmedia Network / Wallaceburg Courier Press Two years in the making, the Ontario Health Coalition released a report on private health-care clinics and how the OHC feels that they are a threat to Canada’s public medicare system. Released on Monday morning, the report says that private clinics serve to bolster […]

Canadian patients, advocates speak out about illegal doctor double-billing

(June 12, 2017) By: Kathy Tomlinson, Eric Andrew-Gee, The Globe and Mail Canadian patients and public-health-care advocates are coming forward with more stories of double-dipping by doctors who work in the public system but also charge some patients extra fees for quicker access to medical care. They are speaking out in the wake of a […]

Unifor calls on governments to stop proliferation of health care user-fees

(June 12, 2017) Unifor is calling on the federal and provincial governments to put a halt to the practice by clinics of charging user-fees for necessary health services, as found in a ground-breaking new report by the Ontario Health Coalition. “Health care should never be a money-making venture,” said Unifor National President Jerry Dias. “The […]

Ontario Health Coalition visits Woodstock City Hall to promote Medicare

(June 11, 2017) By: Bruce Chessell, Woodstock Sentinel-Review Some Friendly City residents were treated Sunday to a nice warm hug from a seven-foot-tall teddy bear. The Ontario Health Coalition and the Oxford Coalition for Social Justice brought the giant teddy bear to city hall to help share the message “we can’t bear to lose Medicare.” Oxford […]

Health Coalition members warn of illegal billing by private health clinics during tour stop in Sarnia-Lambton

(June 11, 2017) By: Tyler Kula, Sarnia Observer Private, for-profit clinics are cutting a second tier into Canada’s public health-care system, a representative with a provincial health-care watchdog group says. And, in many cases, what they’re doing is illegal, said Peter Boyle, a volunteer with the Ontario Health Coalition. “If you need money for medical care, […]

Health Minister vows action against illegal physician double-billing

(June 11, 2017) By: Kathy Tomlinson, Justine Hunter, The Globe and Mail Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott said Sunday she is “determined to find ways to make it very clear that we expect the law to be upheld” and she finds it “disturbing” to see how Canadian physicians are double-dipping – by billing the public […]

Some doctors are charging both government and patients privately in illegal double-dipping practice

(June 10, 2017) By: Kathy Tomlinson, The Globe and Mail Regulators are doing little to stop doctor-owned clinics from quietly making desperate patients open their wallets to bypass long lines for everything from simple appointments to major surgery. Kathy Tomlinson reports Rosalia Guthrie is still astounded that it cost her $4,350 to get her shoulder […]

Can’t Bear To Lose Medicare

(June 10, 2017) By: Melanie Irwin “Tommy” the 7 ft Teddy Bear visited Point Edward Saturday with the Ontario Health Coalition’s tour against the threat of healthcare privatization. Sarnia-Lambton Health Coalition Chair Shirley Roebuck says Tommy brings with him the message “We Can’t Bear To Lose Medicare.” “Maybe we in Sarnia and Lambton have seen […]

GIANT 7′ TALL ‘MEDICARE’ BEAR STOPPING IN WALLACEBURG

(June 8, 2017) By: Aaron, Sydenham Current The Ontario Health Coalition along with the Wallaceburg-Walpole Island First Nation Health Coalition are touring a giant teddy bear with the slogan ‘We Can’t Bear to Lose Medicare’ to 20 towns from late May to mid-June to raise awareness about the threat of health care privatization. The group […]

Giant teddy bear in Cobourg on Ontario Health Coalition tour

(June 9, 2017) By: Karen Longwell, Northumberland News COBOURG — A giant teddy bear has drawn attention to a health care concern. The bear is touring the province with the slogan “We Can’t Bear to Lose Medicare”. The Ontario and Northumberland Health Coalitions gathered at Elgin Street and Strathy Road with the bear and signs […]

Ontario Health Coalition tour Ontario to raise awareness about private, for-profit clinics

(June 9, 2017) By: Ellwood Shreve, Chatham Daily News A seven-foot teddy bear isn’t going to alarm anyone, but the message being delivered through the use of this prop just might. Members of the Ontario Health Coalition made a stop in Chatham on Friday as part of its ‘We Can’t Bear to Lose Medicare’ campaign, that […]

Ontario can’t ‘bear’ to let private clinics overcharge, health coalition says

(June 9, 2017) By: Tom Morrison, OurWindsor.ca Members of the Ontario Health Coalition have brought a seven-foot stuffed bear to Windsor to raise their concerns about the use of private clinics in the province. The furry animal, which has travelled to other parts of the province, is meant to support their message: “We can’t ‘bear’ […]

Group aims to raise awareness about the risks of health-care privatization

(June 10, 2017) By: Mandy Marciniak, Kingston Heritage “We can’t ‘bear’ to lose Medicare.” That is the message the Ontario Health Coalition is bringing with them across the province this month, and on June 6, they brought it to Kingston. “We are doing a tour to let people know about the threat to health care […]

Ontario Health Coalition’s giant Care Bear visits Peterborough Downtown Farmers’ Market to send a message about health care privatization

(June 7, 2017) By: Clifford Skarstedt, Peterborough Examiner Members of the Peterborough Health Coalition were joined by a giant seven-foot-tall Care Bear on Wednesday at the Peterborough Downtown Farmers’ Market to voice their concerns about the privatization of health care in Ontario. The Care Bear stopped at the city’s Louis Street parking lot on a provincial […]

Big Bear Coming To Windsor

(June 6, 2017) By: Robert Tuomi (WINDSOR, ON) – Almost on the heels of the 210 ton HMCS Goose Bay, the next big visitor to Windsor will apparently be a so-called giant of a bear. This is no ordinary bear. Much larger than the one at Costco near the exit door, this will be a […]

The Ontario Health Coalition is touring “Tommy” the bear across the province along with a message about the importance of public healthcare.

(June 6, 2017) By: Nick Seebruch The bear is named after Tommy Douglas, the father of the Canadian Public Healthcare system. On Monday, June 5, Tommy was in Cornwall. ohn Milne is one of the people who attended the demonstration in Cornwall at that corner of Pitt and Second streets, he warned that a lack […]

Bear to lose your care campaign swings through Cornwall

(June 5, 2017) By: Todd Hambleton, Cornwall Standard-Freeholder A big bear was drawing some attention in the middle of downtown Cornwall on Monday afternoon. The We Can’t “Bear” to Lose Medicare Tour visited the city, and the star attraction was a giant – and of course cute — 7-foot tall, 4.5-foot wide teddy bear positioned at […]

Coalition aims to spur up debate on health care

(June 5, 2017) By: Joseph Cattana Kingston Health Coalition chair Matthew Gventer hopes that a larger-than-life teddy bear will get residents to ask questions about Ontario’s health-care system. On June 6, the seven-foot-tall, five-foot-wide stuffed animal will be stationed outside Kingston and the Islands MPP Sophie Kiwala’s office at Bagot and Princess streets for the […]

Peterborough Health Coaltion members can’t bear to see health care privatization

(June 3, 2017) By: The Peterborough Examiner A giant teddy bear will be downtown Wednesday to warn citizens about health care privatization. The 7-foot tall “Care Bear” will be outside the Peterborough Downtown Farmers’ Market from 10 a.m. to noon at the Louis St. parking lot. It’s making an appearance on behalf of the Peterborough Health […]

Ontario Health Coalition launches tour railing against privatization

(May 30, 2017) By: Sara Cain, 900CHML A giant teddy bear has made its first stop of 20, in Hamilton with the message: “we can’t bear to lose Medicare.” It’s part of a tour across Ontario by the Ontario Health Coalition to raise awareness about what it calls the threat of privatization by for-profit clinics. Executive Director, […]

Health care rally planned for Tuesday

(June 1, 2017) By: Valerie MacDonald, Northumberland Today A campaign travelling through Northumberland to warn of the potential privatization of health care comes to Cobourg June 6 at the corner of Elgin and Strathy Road, near Northumberland Mall. The Ontario Health Coalition (of which Northumberland is a member) and the Hamilton Health Coalition are touring […]

Giant teddy bear to hit town with health message

(June 8, 2017) By: The Chatham Voice The Ontario and Chatham-Kent Health Coalitions are touring a giant teddy bear with the slogan, “We Can’t Bear to Lose Medicare,” to 20 towns from late May to mid-June to raise awareness about the threat of health care privatization. The bear, which is seven feet tall and five […]

Health coalition continuing hospital press

(May 24, 2017) By: Steve Henschel, Niagara This Week WELLAND — Despite the $9 billion earmarked for new hospitals in the provincial budget, and the assertion that some of that will be directed to a new Niagara Falls hospital, the fight isn’t over in Welland. Speaking at a Niagara Health Coalition Save Our Welland Hospital […]

EVENT: Fight to save hospital heads to Queen’s Park

(June 15, 2017) Members of the community championing the fight to save Welland’s hospital and other hospitals in Niagara are heading to Queen’s Park next Wednesday. Sue Hotte, chair of the Niagara Health Coalition, said there is still room for more people on the bus that will leave from Welland’s Market Square to head to […]

Fight for Welland Hospital not over yet

(May 21, 2017) By: Laura Barton, Welland Tribune “It is not a done deal.” That was the main message delivered by Sue Hotte, chair of the Save Our Welland Hospital group, and other speakers gathered at a press conference held in Welland Friday morning. Their goal was to get the word out that Welland Hospital can still […]

Emergency services first on scene at Northumberland Hills Hospital medical distress call, says witness

(May 11, 2017) By: Pete Fisher, Northumberland Today COBOURG – Northumberland Hills Hospital is reviewing its policies after a person went into medical distress on the property and emergency services were first to arrive on scene. Patrick Ahern, 31, from Peterborough said was he witnessed Tuesday around 11:30 a.m. just inside the main entrance of NHH “was so […]

Public hearing from Ontario Health Coalition will focus on hospital reform

(June 22, 2017) By: Bruce Chessell, Woodstock Sentinel-Review Residents of Oxford County will soon have the chance to have their voices heard when it comes to public health reform. A public hearing on public hospital reform will be held in Ingersoll on June 26. Hosted by the Oxford Coalition for Social Justice and the Ontario Health Coalition, […]

Older Persons Day a time to push for change

posted June 12, 2017

(September 28, 2017) By: Natalie Mehra, Executive Director, OHC In May, The Hamilton Spectator reported that for the first time in Hamilton and Ontario, seniors outnumber children. In fact, in Hamilton, Burlington and Grimsby almost one in every five people is 65 or older. Hamilton is slightly greyer than the rest of Ontario and the […]

RELEASE: Private Clinics & the Threat to Public Medicare in Canada: Results of Surveys with Private Clinics and Patients

(June 10, 2017) From the autumn of 2016 to the spring of 2017, researchers at the Ontario Health Coalition called all the private clinics we could reach across Canada. Included in the survey are private surgical clinics including cataract surgery clinics, MRI/CT, colonoscopy/endoscopy clinics and “boutique” physician clinics. In total, we surveyed a sample of […]

EVENT: Public Consultation on Public Hospital Reform

(June 2, 2017) Now is the time when we can make a difference Organizations and individuals are invited to attend and submit oral or written submissions on reforming Ontario’s hospitals in the public interest. We are holding public hearings across the province. Your input will be used to help create a report on reforming hospitals […]

EVENT: We Can’t “Bear” to Lose Medicare Tour

(June 2, 2017) The giant teddy bear is 7-feet tall and 4 1/2 foot-wide: a much-loved and friendly prop to help educate our communities about the threat of health care privatization. Private for-profit clinics are trying to take over services from our local public non-profit hospitals. They charge user fees amounting to hundreds or even thousands […]

ER wait times at Brampton Civic unlikely to improve despite promises

(May 2, 2017) By: Radhika Panjwani, Brampton Guardian The Ontario government’s much publicized announcement of approximately $518 million in funding to hospitals including Brampton Civic Hospital (BCH) to alleviate the patient gridlock in the emergency department, may have just been eyewash designed to squelch the outcry about the inhumane conditions experienced by patients, say some […]

New provincial budget brings more money to Peterborough’s health care and mental health

(April 28, 2017) By: Taylor Clysdale, Peterborough This Week The areas in which Peterborough will benefit from the new provincial budget will be foremost in health care, says the city’s member of provincial parliament. “It’s all about making life more affordable for Ontarians,” says MPP Jeff Leal. Several new additions to the 2016-2017 provincial budget, […]

Ontario budget ‘really designed’ for Peterborough riding: Leal

(April 28, 2017) By: Joelle Kovach MPP Jeff Leal says the new provincial budget is one that’s tailor-made for local people. “This was a budget really designed, in many ways, for the residents of Peterborough riding,” he said. Take the promise of free prescription medication for Ontarians under age 25, for instance. Leal says there […]

Youth drug plan on way; Prescription medication free to those under age 25

(April 28, 2017) By: THE CANADIAN PRESS Ontario’s Liberal government is promising to inject billions of new dollars into health care in its first balanced budget in a decade, a fiscal plan designed to appeal to nearly everyone in the province ahead of an election next summer. Crafted by a party in power since 2003 […]

RELEASE: Ontario Budget Health Care Investments Do Not Meet Expectations: Hospital Funding Inadequate to Stop Cuts & Meet Community’s Needs

(April 28, 2017) Despite the hype, the Ontario Budget did not provide the relief from a decade of hospital cuts that was hoped. Overall health funding will increase by 3 percent, less than the rest of the public sector. Home and community care funding increases are positive and appear to remain at the same rate […]

Free prescription medicines for those 24 and under first step to national pharmacare plan: Sousa

(April 27, 2017) By: Rob Ferguson, Queen’s Park Bureau Prescription medicines will be free for Ontario residents 24 and under starting in January as the provincial budget extends the same drug coverage given to 3.9 million seniors and people on social assistance. The groundbreaking measure, the first of its kind in Canada, is called OHIP+ […]

Hoskins wrong about hospital closures

(April 28, 2017) By: Sue-Ann Levy, Toronto Sun Health Minister Eric Hoskins got rather miffed with me Tuesday when I suggested his government was simply reinventing the wheel by closing hospitals on the one hand and offering $9 billion in this year’s budget to construct new ones. In their nice glossy 2017 budget book, the […]

Des attentes élevées pour le budget provincial

PUBLIÉ LE JEUDI 27 AVRIL 2017 À 5 H 54 On sait que la santé sera au coeur de ce budget. C’est la préoccupation principale des Ontariens et le gouvernement a l’intention d’investir massivement dans ce secteur. La Coalition de la santé de l’Ontario s’attend à voir le financement des hôpitaux augmenter de façon significative […]

Ontario set to begin shifting home care responsibilities

(April 25, 2017) By: Kate Porter, CBC News Ontario begins dissolving its 14 community care access centres next week, but critics insist the move won’t cut red tape, free up money or improve home care for patients. Every year more than 700,000 people in Ontario count on the personal support workers, nurses and therapists who […]

Ontario NDP’s policy initiative for Universal PharmaCare applauded by Ontario Health Coalition

(April 25, 2017) By: Lynne Brown NDP Leader Andrea Horwath announced Saturday at the NDP’s 2017 Convention that an NDP provincial government would create Ontario’s first universal Pharmacare plan. The convention took place at the Metro Convention Centre in downtown Toronto from April 21st to 23rd. “You shouldn’t have to empty your wallet to get […]

Can anything be done to prevent hospital misdiagnoses?

(April 19, 2017) By: CBC RADIO In just three months, there has been a spate of misdiagnoses in Canadian emergency rooms, some with tragic results. A three-year old girl in Abbotsford, B.C.,died after her pneumonia went untreated, despite repeated visits to the hospital. In Mississauga, Ont, after being sent home twice with a diagnosis of […]

Special Report, Part two: Five-year-old Sam Shalley died suddenly in the Woodstock ER after being wrongly diagnosed with croup

(March 29, 2017) By: Heather Rivers, Woodstock Sentinel-Review One of the last memories Melanie Carter has of her youngest grandson Sam Shalley is that of an excited five-year-old who was handed his very first Woodstock library card. Carter, who Sam affectionately called Gam, will never forget that day and giant smile on her grandson’s face. […]

Boutique clinics are turning Canada’s health care into a two-tiered system, critics say

(March 19, 2017) By: Jayson Maclean How much private influence can we have in Canada’s health care system before the dreaded ‘two-tier’ label becomes the more appropriate one? In Ontario, the line has already started to blur, say health care advocates, who see both a public system operating chronically underfunded hospitals and a suite of […]

Health Care Advocates Dismayed with Ottawa’s Divide and Conquer Tactics

(March 11, 2017) By: Lynne Brown Hopes for a Canadian Health Accord Dashed as Provinces Signs Deal Toronto/Ottawa/Edmonton: In a joint statement, The Ontario Health Coalition, Canadian Health Coalition and Friends of Medicare have released the following: The Ontario, Quebec and Alberta governments, which had initially held out for better, were compelled to sign onto […]

Ontario Health Coalition makes Public Health care front and centre in upcoming Bi-Election

(March 4, 2017) By: Lynne Brown On Thursday evening, March 2nd, 2017, the hall at Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 25 held a good sized turn-out of citizens from Sault Ste. Marie & area united in one cause – Public Healthcare. Public Healthcare accessible to all Ontario residents – not mired in a system where privatization […]

Ontario hospital bed crunch ‘extreme’

(February 11, 2017) By: Antonella Artuso, Toronto Sun Ontario has 2.3 hospital beds per 1,000 residents — barely ahead of countries with rock bottom bed counts like Mexico and Chile, the Ontario Health Coalition says. Executive Director Natalie Mehra said the average across Canada is 3.5 per 1,000 patients. “The hospital bed crunch is extreme […]

Canada’s Health Coalitions Warn Cuts Coming to Health Care

(February 10, 2017) By: Content Team Canada’s Health Coalitions signed a joint statement and held a media conference Thursday on the recent bilateral health care deals and called for a united health accord. Since late December the federal government has abandoned a national health accord negotiation and is now signing bilateral health deals with the […]

More hospital beds needed in Durham: health coalition

(January 12, 2017) By: Keith Gilligan, Oshawa This Week On the same day the province’s financial accountability office warned billions will need to be cut from health care so the government can balance its books, the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) said the system is already strained due to funding cuts. In a news conference at […]

Hospitals in Ontario, Sudbury, overcrowded: group

(January 10, 2017) By: Sudbury Star Staff Hospitals in the province, including Health Sciences North in Sudbury, are bursting at the seams, the Ontario Health Coalition warned Tuesday. In a release, the coalition said there are bed shortages across the province and blames lack of provincial funding for the problem. “In Sudbury, Hamilton, and across […]

Sudbury’s hospital overflowing

(January 11, 2017) By: Jim Moodie, The Sudbury Star As white stuff accumulated outside Tuesday, the number of patients within the Ramsey Lake Health Centre was simultaneously snowballing. “At this moment we’re at 116 per cent occupancy,” said David McNeil, vice-president of patient services at Health Sciences North. “We’ve surged up into areas of the […]

Long-term Care: Seeking solutions on seniors’ issues

(November 3, 2016) By: Heather Rivers, Woodstock Sentinel-Review In Sweden, long-term care residents are cared for in a very different manner than those residing in Canadian homes. According to Dr. Margaret McGregor, who was part of the Re-imagining Long-term Residential Care: An International Study in Promising Practices project that included researchers from Canada, the U.S., […]

Seniors Calling. Public or Private Pursuit in Long-Term Care

(October 25, 2016) By: Lynne Brown A research paper published earlier this year in the journal PLOS Medicine, found that, ‘For-profit nursing homes provide “inferior” care to seniors, and though the evidence isn’t perfect it’s strong enough to suggest that policy makers should pay attention.’ The authors draw on years of research, in the U.S., […]

Health Alliance needs to get in cash queue

(October 24, 2016) Representatives from the Chatham-Kent Health Coalition, the Wallaceburg-Walpole Island Health Coalition, along with the executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition, Natalie Mehra, recently met with Rob DeVitt, Supervisor for Chatham Kent Health Alliance and Ken Deane, interim CEO for CKHA. Many issues were discussed, but there is one issue that is […]

Ontario Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins orders hospital mergers in Scarborough

(October 19, 2016) By: Mike Adler, Scarborough Mirror Ontario’s health minister has directed hospitals within Scarborough and Durham Region to merge, and will hear public comments on his decision until mid-November. Dr. Eric Hoskins’ order, announced Friday, Oct. 14, will break up the Rouge Valley Health System, merging its Centenary campus in Scarborough with The […]

Province asks former TD Bank CEO to look at digital health system

(October 7, 2016) By: Allison Jones, The Canadian Press Ontario is asking the banker who recommended privatizing Hydro One to turn his attention to the province’s digital health system. Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced in a statement Friday that he had asked former TD Bank CEO Ed Clark, who headed up an advisory council that […]

Report slams hospital merger

(December 1, 2016) By: Graeme McNaughton, The Oshawa Express With the Ajax-Pickering hospital set to join the Lakeridge Health family, something is not adding up for the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC). According to a report recently released by the group, the merger will save approximately $300,000 every year. While six-figure savings are nothing to sneeze […]

More hospital beds needed in Durham: health coalition

Ontario Health Coalition concerned for overworked staff at long-term care facilities

(October 25, 2016) By: Ellwood Shreve, Chatham Daily News The Ontario Health Coalition is concerned already overworked staff at long-term care homes could come under greater scrutiny in light of a Woodstock woman being charged with eight counts of first-degree murder in connection with the death of elderly residents at facilities in Woodstock and London. […]

Private clinics ripping off public in Ontario: OHC

(March 25, 2014) By: The Bulletin Ontario Health Coalition — In August 2013, a routine mandatory public notice posted on the government’s regulations website revealed that a change in the ownership and control of public hospital services in Ontario was being planned. The Ontario government was preparing to introduce two new regulations to cut clinical […]

Medical students fear for health care as extra billing grows

(October 6, 2016) By: Nick Parle and Sarah Hanafi, Hamilton Spectator Medical students across Canada are concerned that a growing number of physicians are charging their patients fees for medically necessary care. We worry about the impact this trend will have on our future patients and our publicly funded, universal health-care system. The practice, known as […]

Long-term Care: Are we failing our seniors?

(November 1, 2016) By: Heather Rivers, Woodstock Sentinel-Review WOODSTOCK – It’s not the staff’s fault, it’s the system. As news sinks in that Woodstock resident Elizabeth Wettlaufer has been charged with eight counts of first-degree murder in a long-term care facility – seven of which occurred in Woodstock and one in London – locals are […]

Protection of personal health information is paramount in this review – Hoskins

(October 9, 2016) By: Allison Jones, THE CANADIAN PRESS Ontario is asking the banker who recommended privatizing Hydro One to turn his attention to the province’s digital health system. Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced in a statement Friday that he had asked former TD Bank CEO Ed Clark, who headed up an advisory council that […]

Lack of care and oversight in long-term care homes considered “chronic and epidemic”

(October 26, 2016) By: Heather Rivers, Woodstock Sentinel Review The long term care system in Ontario is unable to provide adequate care and oversight to prevent potential horror stories from happening, according to Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition. Mehra said long term care facilities in Ontario are so underfunded it is […]

RELEASE: Ontario Budget Health Care Investments Do Not Meet Expectations: Hospital Funding Inadequate to Stop Cuts & Meet Community’s Needs

(April 27, 2017) Despite the hype, the Ontario Budget did not provide the relief from a decade of hospital cuts that was hoped. Overall health funding will increase by 3 percent, less than the rest of the public sector. Home and community care funding increases are positive and appear to remain at the same rate […]

BRIEFING NOTE: Pre-Budget Note

(April 26, 2017) In a speech April 13 to the Empire Club, Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa reported that in every corner of Ontario he heard from residents, civic leaders and businesses that health care and public hospitals are top priority issues, and he promised significant investments in this year’s budget. These increases will follow […]

UPDATE: ONDP Pharmacare Plan: A Welcome Step Toward Comprehensive Drug Coverage for All

(April 24, 2017) The Ontario Health Coalition welcomes the Ontario NDP’s announcement today of a proposed drug program to expand coverage to 2.2 million Ontarians. Just as public health care, or “medicare”, covers hospitals and doctors, public pharmacare would be a public insurance program covering medicines. It would improve the current patchwork of private insurance […]

REPORT: Our Hospitals, Our Communities: Report on Hospital Care Surveys in Chatham-Kent

(March 28, 2017) In 2016 Ontario Minister of Health, Dr. Eric Hoskins appointed a Supervisor under the Public Hospitals Act to take over the leadership of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, which includes the two Chatham hospitals on one site (Public General and St. Joseph’s) and the Sydenham District Hospital in Wallaceburg. Since his appointment, Supervisor […]

RELEASE: Health Care Advocates Dismayed with Ottawa’s Divide and Conquer Tactics: Hopes for a Canadian Health Accord Dashed as Provinces Signs Deal

(March 10, 2017) Toronto/Ottawa/Edmonton: The Ontario, Quebec and Alberta governments, which had initially held out for better, were compelled to sign onto a bilateral health funding deal with Ottawa today. In the federal election, the Trudeau government promised to break with the high-handed approach of the previous Harper government and negotiate a new Health Accord […]

RELEASE: CIHI/Commonwealth Fund study on health: the good the bad and what’s missing

(February 16, 2017) In the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s spin-off report from the annual Commonwealth Fund International Health Survey of 11 countries released today, Canada fared pretty well. Though the Canadian Institute for Health Information led its media messaging with wait times, it should be noted that the study ranks Canada at or above […]

MEDIA CONFERENCE: Canada’s Health Coalitions Call for a United Health Accord Federal Government Must Return to the Negotiation Table

(February 9, 2017) The Ontario Health Coalition was joined by provincial and territorial health coalitions across Canada in media conferences to decry the federal government’s decision to walk away from the table on negotiating a new Health Accord for Canada. The current bilateral deals pushed through by the federal government and some provinces and territories […]

RELEASE & BACKGROUND: Ontario Government Responsible for Overwhelmed Hospital Emergency Departments: Critical Bed Shortages “Systemic and Pervasive”

(January 10, 2017) Reports of critical and pervasive hospital bed shortages are streaming in from across Ontario. In Brantford, hospital officials recently reported the “emergency department is overwhelmed”. At Lakeridge Health, all four hospitals across Durham are so full that hospital managers set up an emergency “command centre”. In Ottawa and London health coalition members […]

RELEASE: As Prime Minister Trudeau meets with First Ministers, Health Coalition calls for both sides to give ground to forge a new Health Accord in the public interest

(December 9, 2016) In advance of tonight’s dinner discussion on health care between the provincial-territorial Premiers and the Prime Minister, the Ontario Health Coalition called out both sides for their intransigence and advocated a new Health Accord forged in the public interest. For months, provincial premiers and the federal government have been at odds over […]

UPDATE: 100 Patients, families and concerned residents traveled to the Ontario Legislature

100 Patients, families and concerned residents traveled to the Ontario Legislature as Wynne government forces through the mega-mergers of their local hospitals. This week, the Wynne government used extraordinary powers to order the forced merger of the hospitals in Durham and Scarborough. The merger will cost almost $50 million of dollars, taking this money away from […]

UPDATE & BRIEFING NOTES: Durham/Scarborough Hospital Merger Mania

(November 24, 2016) UPDATE POSTED NOV. 24: Minister of Health Orders Mega-Hospital Merger “By Fiat”: Health Coalition Outraged, Vows to take its Fight to the Legislature Durham/Scarborough – The Ontario Health Coalition expressed outrage in reaction to news that the Minister of Health is forcing through massive hospital mergers in Scarborough and Durham affecting more than […]

UPDATE: Giant Teddy Bear Brings Message of Compassion to London

(October 18, 2016) We Can’t “Bear” To Lose Medicare!! The London Health Coalition is launching a Care Bear Tour today on Tuesday, October 18th. With a giant teddy bear, aptly nicknamed “Tommy”, the coalition seeks to convey the message that care (not profit) must be the centre of our public health care system. Their goal […]

RELEASE: As Health Ministers from Across Canada Meet to Negotiate Health Accord

(October 17, 2016) Months of sparring in the media may come to an end this week as Health Ministers from across Canada meet to discuss a new Health Accord. This morning, representatives of the Canadian & Ontario Health Coalitions, Canadian Doctors for Medicare and the Council of Canadians gathered outside the King Edward hotel where […]

RELEASE: Coalition Applauds MPP Gates’ Call for Premier to Answer on Status of Niagara Falls Hospital

On Thursday, in advance of Premier Kathleen Wynne’s visit to Niagara Falls today, MPP Wayne Gates questioned the Health Minister in the Ontario Legislature on the slow pace of approval for a new hospital in Niagara Falls. He advocated that local contractors be used in the construction. All this is good. There is no question that the Niagara Falls hospital is old and a new one is required. Two years ago, the Niagara Health System submitted to the Ministry of Health a Phase I proposal to build a new hospital in Niagara Falls that has not yet been approved. Unfortunately, here in Niagara, as is the case in Scarborough, Durham, Picton and other areas, the government has used a vague and distant promise of a new hospital in what appears to be an attempt to stifle dissent about closure of needed health care services and a dismantling of local governance.

RELEASE: Coalition Warns Health Minister: Privatization of Ontario’s Health Systems for Patient Records and Information Will Incite Massive Public Opposition

(October 7, 2016) Banking Executive is Not Trusted to Protect Patient or Public Interest, Especially After Hydro Privatization Debacle Toronto –This afternoon, the Wynne government has made public a formal invitation from the Health Minister to Ed Clark to “assess and validate the value these [health data, e-health records and related intellectual property and infrastructure] […]

RELEASE: Throne Speech: Wynne’s Opportunity to Chart Improved Course for Health Care

(September 12, 2016) With today’s Throne Speech, the Wynne government is trying for a fresh start. If this is to succeed, some long-simmering health care issues must be addressed to realign her government’s health policies with the values and priorities of Ontarians. “More than eight years of austerity budgets in Ontario’s public community hospitals has […]

Will Patients Be Forced to Pay For Needed Health Care?

posted September 6, 2016

(September 6, 2016) Private Clinic Supreme Court Challenge in B.C. Starting Today Could Threaten Public Health Care Across Canada By Natalie Mehra, Executive Director, Ontario Health Coalition Mariel Schoof was referred to a private clinic in B.C. for sinus surgery. She was appalled when she was charged more than $6,000. So she wrote to her […]

CONFERENCE: Reforming Long-Term Care Homes in the Public Interest

(August 29, 2016) Last Updated: October 3, 2016 CONFERENCE Reforming Long-Term Care Homes in the Public Interest Friday October 28, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Bond Place Hotel, 65 Dundas St. E., Toronto The Ontario Health Coalition is hosting a pan-Canadian conference on reforming long-term care in the public interest, co-sponsored by the Canadian Health Coalition […]

CONFERENCE: Annual Health Action Assembly & Conference on Health Reform

(August 29, 2016) Health Action Assembly & Conference on Health Reform ASSEMBLY Saturday October 29, 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Metro Hall Rotunda, 55 John St., Toronto $20 – $40 sliding scale per day Forging a strategy Reports from member groups and local health coalitions across Ontario on events and activities in their […]