HOSPITALS EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Hospital Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases

Posted: September 25, 2020

On this page you can find a roundup of Ontario Health Coalition Hospitals:

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

Reports/Analyses

• RELEASE & REPORT: Robbing the public to build the private: The Ford government’s hospital privatization scheme (February 21, 2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Health Coalition Exposes Significantly Higher Costs & Irregularities in Kingston Hospital Cataract Surgery Privatization: New Report (February 15, 2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Number of Ontario hospital emergency closures soars to new record: Health Coalition demands Ford government finally take action (December 5, 2023)
• REPORT & RELEASE: Report advises Ontario government to scrap private surgeries and invest in public hospitals (November 2, 2023)
• ANALYSIS: Ontario Health Coalition Analysis of Bill 60, Your Health Act (March 10, 2023)
• REPORT & RELEASE: Ontario Hospital Crisis Province-Wide and By Community (October 24, 2022)
• LETTER & RELEASE: “Rife with discrimination against the elderly,” Bill 7 prompts advocates to escalate call for Human Rights Commission investigation into systemic ageism in Ontario health policy (August 31, 2022)
• LETTER & EVENTS: Call for Human Rights Inquiry Into Systemic Discrimination Against the Elderly in Ontario Hospitals and Long-Term Care (March 16, 2021)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Large Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Summary & Report: Over Two Thousand Dead in Long-Term Care as We Approach End of Wave 2 – Data updated to March 3 (March 12, 2021)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Large Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Summary & Report: Second Wave in Long-Term Care Infections & Deaths have Surpassed First Wave – Data updated to February 9 (February 17, 2021)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Sharp escalation in large COVID-19 outbreaks in health care settings – Data updated to January 8 (January 11, 2021)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Sharp escalation in large COVID-19 outbreaks in health care settings – Data updated to December 1 (December 3, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: COVID Numbers in Health Care Outbreaks Escalating Dramatically – Data Updated to November 17 (November 19, 2020)
• REPORT & RELEASE: Ontario Is Experiencing Exponential Growth of COVID-19 Cases In Long-Term Care – OHC’s Roundup of Most Recent Case Numbers (November 10, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings – Data Updated to October 28 (November 3, 2020)
• RELEASE & ANALYSIS: Health Coalition Calls for Government to Flow Urgently Needed Money to Hospitals and Long-Term Care; Staffing Announcements Far Less Than Other Provinces (October 2, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Rate of Increase in COVID-19 among Staff, Residents, and Patients in Ontario’s Health Care Settings More Than Doubled: Coalition Fears Second Wave in Long-Term Care (September 23, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Ford Government Must Be Transparent About COVID-19 Outbreaks, Improve Public Access to Information: Health Coalition Releases Updated Reports on Outbreaks in Health & Non-Health Sectors (September 9, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Updated Tracking Reports Shows New 30 Outbreaks & Increase in Deaths in Health & Congregate Care Settings; New Outbreaks in Agriculture, Retail, Shelters and other Non-Health Care Industries (July 23, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Most Recent Tracking Report Shows that Ministry of Long-Term Care & Public Health Ontario Have Discontinued Public Reporting of Vital COVID-19 Data, Outbreaks in Health Settings Down but Death Rate Continues to Rise (June 23, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Death Toll Among Patients, Residents and Staff in Health Care Settings up 18.4% in 2 weeks: OHC Tracking Numbers Still Growing But More Slowly (June 5, 2020)
• REPORT: New Report on COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Settings – Data Updated to May 19 (June 2, 2020)
• REPORT: COVID-19 outbreaks in health settings almost doubled, death toll up by 333.7% – Data updated to May 5 (May 12, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Staff & Patients Infected by COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Almost Doubled, Death Toll increased by 333.7 % in 2-weeks: Outbreaks are Not Under Control (May 12, 2020)
• ANALYSIS: Key Message & Quick Analysis of Ford Government Economic Statement Just Released (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)
• 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)
• REPORT: A Rural Nurse Speaks Out: New Report Appeals for Devastating Cuts to Small Community Hospitals to Stop (July 17, 2014)
• REPORT: Private Health Clinics Using Manipulative Tactics to Over-Bill Patients: Ontario Health Coalition Report (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)
• SUBMISSION: Submission on the proposed new regulation under the Independent Health Facilities Act (IHFA), 1990 and the proposed amendment to regulation 264/07 under the Local Health System Integration Act (LHSIA) 2006 (October 10, 2013)
• REPORT: The Austerity Index Part I: Health Care cuts and deficits across Ontario (December 5, 2012)
• REPORT: No Vacancy: Hospital Overcrowding in Ontario, Impact on Patient Safety and Access to Care (July 21, 2011)
• REPORT: Rural and Northern Framework/Plan (March 8, 2011)
• REPORT: Toward Equality and Access: Realigning Ontario’s Approach to Small and Rural Hospitals to Serve Public Values (May 17, 2010)
• 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

• ANALYSIS & FACT CHECKER: Quick Facts & Analysis + Fact Checker: Ford government’s health care funding (November 11, 2024)
• BRIEFING NOTE: Health care funding briefing note: putting the fall economic statement in context (November 2, 2023)
• BRIEFING NOTE: Sampling of Recent Ontario Hospital Service Closures (September 15, 2023)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: The Ford government lied to the public re. their privatization of public hospital services: Health Coalition demands Ford stop their privatization of our hospitals, kicks off major campaign to save our local public hospitals (October 26, 2022)
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Furious at the “grotesque” ageism and violation of human rights, advocates respond to Ford government’s planned regulations to push elderly patients out of hospital (September 15, 2022)
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Ford Government’s Claims Re. Forcing Elderly Patients into Long-Term Care in Contravention of their Right to Consent (August 25, 2022)
• RELEASE: Doug Ford’s new legislation being pushed through the Legislature gives new powers to force the elderly & persons with disabilities into substandard long-term care homes: “morally repugnant” (August 19, 2022)
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Health Coalition response to Ford government’s plans to move seniors out of hospitals & privatize hospital diagnostics and surgeries to for-profit clinics and hospitals (August 19, 2022)
• FACT SHEET: The Privatization of Ontario’s Public Hospital Services (March 8, 2022)
• JUST THE FACTS: Facts About Health Care, Cuts & Privatization (March 3, 2022)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Ontario Health Coalition Demands Answers from Ford Government on Long-Term Care & Hospital Crisis (January 13, 2022)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget: Health Coalition is Watching for Sufficient Health Funding, Strings Attached in For-Profit LTC & A Stop to the Ford Government’s Privatization of Health Care (March 24, 2021)
• RELEASE & BACKGROUNDER: Health Coalition Demands that Ford Government Stop Privatizing Health Care Under Cover of COVID-19: “There is no excuse not to use reopen & ramp up existing capacity in public system”, Coalition will do everything in its power to stop the undermining of public health care (September 24, 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• CALL-OUT: November 21 Giant Rally at Queen’s Park to STOP the private clinics (October 24, 2014)
• BRIEFING NOTE: New Legal Regulations Planned by Ontario’s Liberal Government to Cut Community Hospital Services and Expand Private Clinics (October 8, 2013)
• FACT SHEET: Comparison of Public Hospitals Act to Independent Health Facilities Act (August 8, 2013)
• RELEASE: Briefing Notes on Ontario’s Hospital Cuts and Restructuring 2008/2009 (December 2, 2008)
• Backgrounder: McGuinty Government Wiping Out Elected Hospital Boards (October 29, 2008)
• SACK GOLDBLATT MITCHELL LLP MEMORANDUM (May 8, 2007)
• Urgent P3 Hospital Update (April 1, 2006)
• FACT SHEET: Hospital Cuts and Restructuring: A Closer Look (January 31, 2006)
• P3s -SIGN CAMPAIGN RESOURCE PAGE for local STOP THE P3 HOSPITAL campaigns (October 12, 2005)
• FACT SHEET: Hospital Funding (January 1, 2000)
• FACT SHEET: Hospital Fact Sheet # 2 (May 1, 1999)
• FACT SHEET: Hospital Fact Sheet # 1 (February 1, 1999)

Media Releases

• RELEASE: Health care in crisis in northwestern Ontario: communities demand urgent solutions from Ford government (September 13, 2024)
• EVENT & RELEASE: Public Hearings on Protecting & Improving Local Hospitals: Community members invited to give input (June 3, 2024)
• RELEASE: Community and union leaders announce legal action, demand Ford declare a moratorium to save the Durham hospital (May 23, 2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Robbing the public to build the private: The Ford government’s hospital privatization scheme (February 21, 2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Health Coalition Exposes Significantly Higher Costs & Irregularities in Kingston Hospital Cataract Surgery Privatization: New Report (February 15, 2024)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Number of Ontario hospital emergency closures soars to new record: Health Coalition demands Ford government finally take action (December 5, 2023)
• RELEASE: Ford Government Expanded For-Profit Hospital in Violation of the Law and While Lying to the Public: Health Coalition and Democracy Watch Call for Concrete Measures to Protect the Public Interest in Wake of Revelations about Former Health Minister Lobbying for For-Profit Hospital (November 20, 2023)
• REPORT & RELEASE: Report advises Ontario government to scrap private surgeries and invest in public hospitals (November 2, 2023)
• RELEASE: Major step forward for elderly patients whose Charter rights are violated by Ford government’s law coercing elderly patients into long-term care homes against their will: Patient advocates file court challenge (April 13, 2023)
• RELEASE: Calling Ford’s plans to privatize Ontario’s public hospital surgeries a “fatal threat” and a “terrible blow” to our public hospitals, health advocates vow major fightback (January 16, 2023)
• RELEASE & LEGAL OPINION: Ontario Health Coalition & Advocacy Centre for the Elderly will go to court to challenge Ford government’s new law forcing elderly into long-term care homes against their choice: “an egregious violation of their Charter rights” (November 21, 2022)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: The Ford government lied to the public re. their privatization of public hospital services: Health Coalition demands Ford stop their privatization of our hospitals, kicks off major campaign to save our local public hospitals (October 26, 2022)
• REPORT & RELEASE: Ontario Hospital Crisis Province-Wide and By Community (October 24, 2022)
• RELEASE: New report on the spread of COVID, LTC outbreaks, hospitalizations & deaths raises red flags despite the Ford government’s suppression of COVID Data (October 21, 2022)
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Furious at the “grotesque” ageism and violation of human rights, advocates respond to Ford government’s planned regulations to push elderly patients out of hospital (September 15, 2022)
• LETTER & RELEASE: “Rife with discrimination against the elderly,” Bill 7 prompts advocates to escalate call for Human Rights Commission investigation into systemic ageism in Ontario health policy (August 31, 2022)
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Ford Government’s Claims Re. Forcing Elderly Patients into Long-Term Care in Contravention of their Right to Consent (August 25, 2022)
• RELEASE: Doug Ford’s new legislation being pushed through the Legislature gives new powers to force the elderly & persons with disabilities into substandard long-term care homes: “morally repugnant” (August 19, 2022)
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Health Coalition response to Ford government’s plans to move seniors out of hospitals & privatize hospital diagnostics and surgeries to for-profit clinics and hospitals (August 19, 2022)
• RELEASE: Health Care System Besieged by COVID-19: Health Coalition demands Ford answer for lack of action (January 20, 2022)
• RELEASE: Emergency Measures Needed to Address the Health Care Staffing Crisis (January 14, 2022)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Ontario Health Coalition Demands Answers from Ford Government on Long-Term Care & Hospital Crisis (January 13, 2022)
• RELEASE: OHC Raises Alarm About Ford Government’s New Emergency Order Transferring Hospital ALC Patients Without Consent into LTC and Retirement Homes (April 28, 2021)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget: Health Coalition is Watching for Sufficient Health Funding, Strings Attached in For-Profit LTC & A Stop to the Ford Government’s Privatization of Health Care (March 24, 2021)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Almost 4,000 Dead in Long-Term Care as We Approach End of Wave 2: Wave 2 Deaths Exceed Wave I (March 12, 2021)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Health Care Outbreaks are Still Fatally High: Long-Term Care Deaths Surpass Wave I & COVID-19 Infections 50% More than Wave I (February 17, 2021)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Threaten to Topple Devastating Records Set in the First Wave (January 11, 2021)
• RELEASE: Emergency: COVID-19 Crisis Situation In Ontario Requires Stronger Measures AND Stronger Supports for People Impacted, Today is Deadliest Day of Pandemic So Far (January 7, 2021)
• RELEASE: By No Measure are they Under Control: Large Outbreaks of COVID-19 in Long-Term Care, Hospitals, Retirement Homes Escalating Sharply- New Tracking Report (December 3, 2020)
• RELEASE: 181 COVID-19 outbreaks in health care settings leaving 89 residents dead & more than 1,800 staff & patients infected in 6-wks, numbers way up across the board, warns Ontario Health Coalition (November 4, 2020)
• RELEASE & OPEN LETTER: Ford Government Given Failing Marks in Response to Recommendations on Long-Term Care COVID-19 Response in Joint Open Letter from more than 200 Organizations Representing Almost 2 Million Ontarians (June 30, 2020)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Outbreaks Have Grown Exponentially In Health Care Settings: Health Coalition tracking report finds 3,783 people infected and 435 patients/residents/staff deceased (April 23, 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: COVID-19 Roundup: Health Workers/LTC Residents Infected, Government Supports & Relief Measures (March 24, 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)
• 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 Governments Health Cuts Negatively Impact Patient Care: Coalition Calls Out Ford Government for “Dissembling” and Lack of Public Accountability (June 19, 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)
• 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: 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)
• RELEASE: Better but not cured:  Health Coalition responds to Wynne pre-election funding announcement (March 22, 2018)
• RELEASE: Health Minister’s hospital bed announcement welcome but it is only a temporary band aid, more is needed: Health Coalition (February 2, 2018)
• 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)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget Health Care Investments Do Not Meet Expectations: Hospital Funding Inadequate to Stop Cuts & Meet Community’s Needs (April 27, 2017)
• 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)
• 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: 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: Scarborough-Ajax Facing Among the Worst Hospital Cuts in Ontario: Campaign Launched to Protect Services (July 17, 2014)
• RELEASE: Ontario’s Wynne Government Plans to Bring In Private Clinics: Threatens Non-Profit Community Hospital Care (July 17, 2014)
• RELEASE: “OHC Austerity Index Part II” details how Hospital Cuts and Privatization Reach New Levels: Coalition Announces “S.O.S.” – Save Our Services – Day of Action (January 25, 2013)
• RELEASE: Health Minister’s Veiled Threat Likened to Bullying: Health Coalition Livid over Health Minister’s Tactics (November 9, 2012)
• RELEASE: Response to Niagara Hospital Consolidation Proposal (May 3, 2012)
• RELEASE: McGuinty Government Fails to Take Hospital Secrecy off the Table – Amendment to Budget Bill Gives Hospitals Wide Berth to Hide Information (April 1, 2011)
• REPORT: Toward Equality and Access: Realigning Ontario’s Approach to Small and Rural Hospitals to Serve Public Values (May 17, 2010)
• RELEASE: Ontario Budget Will Not Help Save Hospitals from Closures, Cuts, Mass Layoffs (March 26, 2009)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition Announces Major Campaign in Response to Hospital Supervisor’s Refusal to Compromise (August 26, 2008)
• Up to 23 New Hospitals to Be Privatized Under Government’s 5-Year Infrastructure Plan: Coalition Launches Major Plebiscite to Keep Hospitals Public (May 25, 2005)
• Up to 23 New Hospitals to Be Privatized Under Government’s 5-Year Infrastructure Plan: Coalition Launches Major Plebiscite to Keep Hospitals Public (May 25, 2005)
• Budget Announcement Outlines Wholesale Hospital Privatization: Health Coalition Outraged at Betrayal (May 11, 2005)
• RELEASE: Ontario Health Coalition Vows to Continue Legal Action to Keep Hospitals Public (October 1, 2003)
• RELEASE: Clement Plays with the Facts – Misrepresents Brampton Hospital Privatization (September 26, 2003)
• RELEASE: $1.3 billion in private hospital deals since kick-off of election outrageous: Ontario Health Coalition (September 26, 2003)
• RELEASE: For-Profit Hospitals & Clinics threaten the Future of Medicare (March 31, 2003)
• RELEASE: Coalition Urges Government to Stop the Cover-Up in Hospital Emergency Services (March 19, 2001)