CUTS & RESTRUCTURING EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Cuts + Restructuring Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases

Posted: July 22, 2021

On this page you can find a roundup of Ontario Health Coalition Cuts + Restructuring:

1. Reports & Analyses
2. Backgrounders, Facts Sheets & Briefing Notes
3. Media Releases

Reports/Analyses

• FACT SHEET: Two-Tier Health Care and Private Clinics (March 8, 2022)
• SUBMISSION: Submission to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy on Bill 218 (November 4, 2020)
• RELEASE & SUBMISSION: Ford Government’s New Home Care Bill “Irredeemable” and Should Not Be Pushed Through During a Pandemic: Coalition Calls for it to be Withdrawn (June 15, 2020)
• ANALYSIS: Key Message & Quick Analysis of Ford Government Economic Statement Just Released (March 25, 2020)
• RELEASE & BACKGROUNDER: Pre-budget brief: Ontario so far behind that emergency funding just brings us to where we should have been pre-COVID-19 (March 25, 2020)
• ANALYSIS: Analysis of the North Bay Mayor’s Roundtable Report (February 10, 2020)
• REPORT: Review of the Plan to Close More than Half of the Existing Residential Addiction Treatment Beds and Hospital Crisis/Safe Beds from North Bay Regional Health Centre (February 6, 2020)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (April 1, 2019)
• RELEASE & REPORT: The Elephant at the Health Ministers’ Meetings: How Will Provinces Cope with $31 Billion Cut (October 18, 2017)
• RELEASE: Private Clinics & the Threat to Public Medicare in Canada: Results of Surveys with Private Clinics and Patients (June 10, 2017)
• REPORT: Our Hospitals, Our Communities: Report on Hospital Care Surveys in Chatham-Kent (March 28, 2017)
• REPORT: “Beyond Limits”: Ontario’s community hospital cuts worst in Canada (April 13, 2016)
• FULL REPORT: Planned Closure of Five Hospital in Niagara Puts Patients At Risk, Warns International Health Expert (April 2, 2015)
• RELEASE & REPORT: International Health Policy Expert Finds Plan to Close Five Hospitals in Niagara Threatens Patient Safety and Contains “Glaring Omissions” (March 30, 2015)
• REPORT: A Rural Nurse Speaks Out: New Report Appeals for Devastating Cuts to Small Community Hospitals to Stop (July 17, 2014)
• REPORT: Ontario Election 2014 (July 17, 2014)
• REPORT: Proposed Scarborough-West Durham Hospital Merger: New report highlights $30 million cost and exposes plans to close hospital sites (July 17, 2014)
• REPORT: The Austerity Index Part I: Health Care cuts and deficits across Ontario (December 5, 2012)
• ANALYSIS: Drummond Report: Summary and Analysis (February 16, 2012)
• REPORT: Health Coalition Issues Pre-Drummond Report Warning of Major Health Cuts: First Do No Harm (February 10, 2012)
• REPORT: Putting Patients at Risk: Interviews with Ontario Paramedics on the Consequences of Closing Local Emergency Departments (June 18, 2009)

Backgrounders/Fact Sheets/Briefing Notes

• FACT SHEET: The Privatization of Ontario’s Public Hospital Services (March 8, 2022)
• FACT SHEET: Why Stop the Privatization of Long-Term Care (March 8, 2022)
• FACT SHEET: Two-Tier Health Care and Private Clinics (March 8, 2022)
• JUST THE FACTS: Facts About Health Care, Cuts & Privatization (March 3, 2022)
• RELEASE & BACKGROUNDER: Ford Government’s Home Care Changes Dismantle Public Control, Risk Privatization (March 5, 2020)
• RELEASE & BACKGROUNDER: Province Ignored Repeated Warnings and Evidence Leading to Yesterday’s Declaration of “State of Emergency” in Brampton Hospital, Similar Issues Apply Across Ontario (January 24, 2020)
• UPDATE: Mounting Health Care Cuts (November 20, 2019)
• UPDATE: Mounting Health Care Cuts (August 3, 2019)
• BRIEFING NOTE: Ontario Health Coalition Briefing Note on Ontario Cabinet Shuffle: Deep Concerns about Ideological Positions of New Minister of Long-Term Care & Associate Minister of Mental Health & Addictions (June 21, 2019)
• BRIEFING NOTE: List of local hospital and health services cuts/mergers/privatization (May 30, 2019)
• URGENT UPDATE: Undeniable signals Doug Ford intends major health care privatization (April 18, 2019)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (April 1, 2019)
• URGENT UPDATE: FORD GOV’T SWEEPING HEALTH CARE RESTRUCTURING BILL (March 27, 2019)
• VIDEO: Better health care through innovation “The Agenda, March 4, 2019” (March 8, 2019)
• BRIEFING NOTE: Gordon Campbell – Canada’s Arch Health Care Privateer and Author of the Worst Cuts in B.C.’s History, September 20, 2018 (September 20, 2018)
• BRIEFING NOTE: Pre-Budget Note (April 26, 2017)
• RELEASE & BACKGROUND: Ontario Government Responsible for Overwhelmed Hospital Emergency Departments: Critical Bed Shortages “Systemic and Pervasive” (January 10, 2017)
• UPDATE & BRIEFING NOTES: Durham/Scarborough Hospital Merger Mania (November 2, 2016)
• CALL-OUT: November 21 Giant Rally at Queen’s Park to STOP the private clinics (October 24, 2014)
• POWERPOINT PRESENTATION: Webinar on the Drummond Report (February 18, 2012)
• BACKGROUNDER: The Drummond Commission: A Cover for Cuts and Privatization (January 23, 2012)
• BRIEFING NOTE: on Ontario’s Hospital Cuts and Restructuring 2008/2009 (December 2, 2008)

Media Releases

• RELEASE: Health care in crisis in northwestern Ontario: communities demand urgent solutions from Ford government (September 13, 2024)
• RELEASE: Community and union leaders announce legal action, demand Ford declare a moratorium to save the Durham hospital (May 23, 2024)
• FACT SHEET: Two-Tier Health Care and Private Clinics (March 8, 2022)
• RELEASE: Health Coalitions Call for Increased Federal Health Care Funding and Accountability (December 10, 2020)
• RELEASE & SUBMISSION: Ford Government’s New Home Care Bill “Irredeemable” and Should Not Be Pushed Through During a Pandemic: Coalition Calls for it to be Withdrawn (June 15, 2020)
• RELEASE & BACKGROUNDER: Pre-budget brief: Ontario so far behind that emergency funding just brings us to where we should have been pre-COVID-19 (March 25, 2020)
• RELEASE: Residents Plan to Step Up Pressure to Ask MPP Fedeli to Save the North Bay Hospital’s Residential Addictions Treatment Program (March 11, 2020)
• RELEASE: New CBC Hospital Overcrowding Data Should Compel Much More Substantive & Urgent Response from Ford Government: Health Coalition (January 22, 2020)
• SUBMISSION: Ontario Health Coalition’s Pre-Budget Submission to the Ontario Legislative Assembly (January 17, 2020)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition & Broad Array of Groups Launch Campaign to Build Mass “Stadium-filling” Event to Save Local Health Care Services (October 10, 2019)
• RELEASE: Ford Government Cuts to Long-Term Care Funding Risk Already Over-Stressed Care Levels    (July 10, 2019)
• RELEASE: Ford Governments Health Cuts Negatively Impact Patient Care: Coalition Calls Out Ford Government for “Dissembling” and Lack of Public Accountability (June 19, 2019)
• RELEASE: Ontario Health Coalition Statement on Today’s Mental Health Funding Announcement by Ford Government (May 6, 2019)
• RELEASE: More than 10,000 Protest to tell Ford Government to stop health privatization, cuts (May 1, 2019)
• UPDATE: 13++ Reasons to Come to the Giant Health Care Rally! (April 29, 2019)
• RELEASE: Unprecedented Health Action Day Calls on Doug Ford to Halt Health Privatization Plans (April 23, 2019)
• RELEASE: Ford’s ambulance and public health cuts and restructuring come with high costs, reduced services: Coalition warns (April 18, 2019)
• RELEASE: Budget Health Care Briefing: What is being Cut, Myth Buster, What is Coming (April 11, 2019)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (April 1, 2019)
• VIDEO: Doug Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliott obfuscate questions on health privatization (March 27, 2019)
• EVENTS: Town Hall Meetings (March 22, 2019)
• RELEASE: Ford Government is Steamrolling Health Restructuring Law Through in “Outrageously Undemocratic” Process Warns Health Coalition: Local Services at Risk (March 18, 2019)
• RELEASE: Warning that Leaked Health Care Omnibus Bill Would Create Health Care Chaos: Longstanding Leaders of Organizations Representing Patients, Care Workers, Doctors (February 11, 2019)
• RELEASE: Leaked omnibus health bill goes far beyond merging the LHINs (February 1, 2019)
• BLOG POST: Ford Government Health Care Report Not a Prescription for a Cure: Coalition Takes Serious Issue with Devlin’s Claims (January 31, 2019)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition Extremely Concerned About LHIN Restructuring Rumours (January 24, 2019)
• RELEASE: Thousands Demand Doug Ford Disavow Health Care Privatization and Cuts – Other Political Parties Respond Positively to Coalition’s Demand for Services to be Rebuilt & Restored (October 23, 2018)
• RELEASE: Ontario Election 2018 Health Care Resources (June 4, 2018)
• RELEASE: $22 billion in cuts to funding for public services planned by Mr. Ford, worse than Harris, we are “extremely worried” (June 3, 2018)
• RELEASE: Provincial Election Discussion Should be About Rebuilding Public Hospitals & Long-Term Care Not “Efficiencies” or “Lean” or Code Words for Cuts: Health Coalition Calls for Concrete Commitments to Redress the Crisis in Access to Care (May 16, 2018)
• RELEASE: Deeply concerned about Doug Ford’s planned revenue cuts, comparison of parties’ commitments on key health care issues (April 13, 2018)
• RELEASE: Doug Ford’s Figures “Way Off”: Coalition Deeply Concerned About His Statements on Hospitals in Northern Ontario (April 13, 2018)
• URGENT ACTION ALERT: New Bill Allows Private For-Profit Hospitals & More Private For-Profit Clinics (November 24, 2017)
• VIDEO: Impassioned debate in legislature on hospital cuts featuring quotes from OHC (November 2, 2017)
• RELEASE: Thousands of Patients Lining Hospital Hallways in Brampton “Code Gridlock” Just the Tip of the Iceberg (October 31, 2017)
• RELEASE: Wynne Government’s Hospital Bed Announcement a Temporary Band-Aid But Health Coalition Slams Expanding Health Care Privatization (October 23, 2017)
• RELEASE & REPORT: The Elephant at the Health Ministers’ Meetings: How Will Provinces Cope with $31 Billion Cut (October 18, 2017)
• CALLOUT: Join the Campaign to fight the Hamilton hospital cuts (August 8, 2017)
• RELEASE: Hamilton’s Hospitals Have Passed the Tipping Point: Urgent campaign launched to stop $27-million in cuts (August 8, 2017)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition Responds to Wettlaufer Inquiry Announcement (August 1, 2017)
• RELEASE: Inquiry Should Look into All Recent Homicides, Systemic Issues in Long-Term Care: Health Coalition (June 28, 2017)
• EVENT: Public Consultation on Public Hospital Reform (June 2, 2017)
• EVENT: We Can’t “Bear” to Lose Medicare Tour (June 2, 2017)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget Health Care Investments Do Not Meet Expectations: Hospital Funding Inadequate to Stop Cuts & Meet Community’s Needs (April 28, 2017)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget Health Care Investments Do Not Meet Expectations: Hospital Funding Inadequate to Stop Cuts & Meet Community’s Needs (April 27, 2017)
• 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)
• RELEASE: Coalition Applauds MPP Gates’ Call for Premier to Answer on Status of Niagara Falls Hospital (October 11, 2016)
• RELEASE: More than 94,000 Ontarians Join in Grassroots Referendum to Stop Devastating Hospital Cuts (May 31, 2016)
• RELEASE: Volunteer-Led Referendum Launched Across Ontario to Save Local Hospitals: Ontarians to Vote Saturday May 28 (April 25, 2016)
• ADVISORY CORRECTION: Volunteers in Communities Across Ontario are Mounting Referendum to Save Local Hospitals (April 22, 2016)
• RELEASE: Success! Patients, Residents Travel 700 kilometres to Ontario Legislature to Save the Wallaceburg Hospital’s Emergency Department (April 18, 2016)
• EVENT: Upcoming Town Hall Meetings: Attend one near you! (April 1, 2016)
• RELEASE: Welland Hospital Awareness Day at Ontario Legislature: Patients, Residents Demand Plan to Close Welland Hospital Be Stopped (March 21, 2016)
• RELEASE: Welland Hospital Plan Unveiled: Precarious Services are No Replacement for Hospital Closure, Coalition Warns (March 18, 2016)
• RELEASE: Devastating Hospital Cuts & Flawed Process for Health Reform Consultation: Key Issues for this Session of the Ontario Legislature (February 16, 2016)
• RELEASE: Patients, Concerned Citizens and Workers Rally Outside Pre-Budget Hearings to Stop Devastating Hospital Cuts, Privatization (February 1, 2016)
• UPDATE: Pre-budget hearing rallies! (February 1, 2016)
• EVENTS: Members of Provincial Parliament Traveling Across Ontario for Pre-Budget Hearings (January 11, 2016)
• RELEASE: A Thousand People Rally to Send Strong Message to Wynne Government: “Stop the Devastating Cuts to Local Hospitals” (December 4, 2015)
• RELEASE: Giant Protest Sends Message to Wynne Government: “We Can’t Take Any More Cuts” (November 13, 2015)
• EVENTS: Take Back Our Hospitals: Fall Days of Action in S/E Ont, N/E Ont, and Scarborough/Durham (October 23, 2015)
• EVENTS: Southwestern Ontario’s Day of Action to Stop Privatization and Protect Our Public Healthcare and Services! (July 6, 2015)
• VIDEO: Stopping Health Care Cuts (June 8, 2015)
• EVENTS: Join us at the upcoming Southwestern Ontario Day of Action (June 3, 2015)
• EVENTS: Join us at the upcoming Ottawa Region Day of Action (May 29, 2015)
• RELEASE: Homecare Roadmap has potential, but beware of some dangerous pitfalls: Health Coalition (May 13, 2015)
• RELEASE: Hundreds Rally to Stop Health Care Cuts and Privatization in First Day of Action — Protests Planned Across Ontario (April 17, 2015)
• ADVISORY: Leaders of Organizations Representing More than Half-A-Million Ontarians Join Forces to Stop the Hospital Cuts & Hospital/Home Care Privatization (April 15, 2015)
• ADVISORY: Media Conference with International Expert Condemning Niagara Hospital Closures (April 1, 2015)
• RELEASE: Leamington Day of Action at Queen’s Park (March 5, 2015)
• RELEASE: Protest at Liberal Cabinet Minister Deb Matthews’ Office to Stop Closure of Birthing Services, Cuts to Smaller Community Hospitals (February 28, 2015)
• ADVISORY: Essex County Residents to Deliver Hundreds of Newborn Hats to Cabinet Minister Deb Matthews’ Office in Rally to Save Maternity Services (February 13, 2015)
• ADVISORY: Thousands Rally at Ontario Legislature to Stop Unprecedented Cuts and Privatization that Threaten Community Hospitals All Across Ontario (November 18, 2014)
• RELEASE: More than 80,000 Ontarians Vote to Stop Wynne Government Plan to Cut Local Community Hospitals and Contract Out Care to Private Clinics: Health Care Advocates Call On the Premier and New Health Minister to Stop the Privatization Plan (July 17, 2014)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget: Austerity Continues For Community Hospitals Plus Some Good News on Minimum Wage, Pensions (July 17, 2014)
• RELEASE: More than 56,000 Ontarians vote to stop the dismantling of community hospitals in volunteer-led referendum: Health Coalition (July 17, 2014)
• RELEASE: VOTE SATURDAY APRIL 5th TO SAVE OUR LOCAL HOSPITALS! (July 17, 2014)
• RELEASE: Scarborough-Ajax Facing Among the Worst Hospital Cuts in Ontario: Campaign Launched to Protect Services (July 17, 2014)
• RELEASE: Bad News Budget Will Result in Health Care Cuts and Privatization (May 2, 2013)
• OPEN LETTER: Formal Complaints Lodged Against LHIN: Request for Disclosure Launched in Ottawa Hospital Cuts and Privatization Scheme (March 11, 2013)
• RELEASE: Myth Buster: OHC Challenges Health Minister’s Claims – Hospital cuts and privatization are not offset by home care (March 5, 2013)
• RELEASE: Ontario-Wide Tour to Visit 15 Communities Warning of Ontario Budget Cutbacks to Health Care (May 7, 2012)
• RELEASE: The Drummond Commission & Public Service Cuts: Public Interest Groups Deeply Concerned About Undemocratic Process (January 27, 2012)
• RELEASE: OHC Calls on McGuinty Government to Stop NHS Privatization Plan in Welland (April 28, 2011)
• RELEASE: OHC Calls For Coroner’s Inquest in the Death of Reilly Anzovino (January 25, 2010)
• RELEASE: Budget Will Not Help Save Hospitals from Closures, Cuts (March 26, 2009)
• EVENTS: Thousands Join Rally at Ontario Legislature to Stop Hospital Cuts (March 26, 2009)
• Public Forum: Health care shouldn’t be a race. (April 2, 2007)
• Save Public Medicare! Information (February 28, 2006)