LONG-TERM CARE/CHRONIC CARE EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Long-Term Care/Chronic Care Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases

Posted: September 21, 2020

On this page you can find a roundup of Ontario Health Coalition Long-Term Care/Chronic Care:

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

Reports/Analyses

• UPDATE: Submission to Ministry of Long-Term Care Public Consultation on New License & Expansion for Southbridge Care Homes Orchard Villa
• 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
• REPORT: Crisis Unabated: The Failure to Improve Dangerously Low Care Levels in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes
• SUBMISSION: Submission to the Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly on Bill 37
• REPORT: Public Money, Private Profit: The Ford Government & the Privatization of the Next Generation of Ontario’s Long-Term Care
• RELEASE & ANALYSIS: Health Coalition Quick Initial Analysis of the Ford Government’s New LTC Act
• RELEASE: Coalition Responds to Long-Term Care Minister Rod Phillips’ Announcement Cutting Through the PR: No Commitment to Reinstate Annual Comprehensive Inspections
• REPORT: Long-Term Care Survey Report Released by Kawartha Lakes Health Coalition, Northumberland Health Coalition, and the Peterborough Health Coalition
• REPORT: Investing in Care, Not Profit: Recommendations to Transform Long-Term Care in Ontario
• ALL REPORTS: Ontario Health Coalition’s Response to the Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission

Backgrounders/Fact Sheets/Briefing Notes

• BRIEFING NOTE & QUESTIONS FOR CANDIDATES: Municipal Election Key Health Care Issues
• 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
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Ford Government’s Claims Re. Forcing Elderly Patients into Long-Term Care in Contravention of their Right to Consent
• 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”
• 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
• FACT SHEET: Why Stop the Privatization of Long-Term Care
• JUST THE FACTS: Facts About Health Care, Cuts & Privatization
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Ontario Health Coalition Demands Answers from Ford Government on Long-Term Care & Hospital Crisis
• BRIEFING NOTE: The Horrifying Truth About For-Profit Long-Term Care Homes
• LEGAL OPINION: Proposal from Southbridge Care Homes Inc. re Orchard Villa in Pickering, Ontario

Media Releases

• Ontario court to hear challenge to government’s long-term care bill next week
• ‘Abominable’: Untrained aides should not count toward LTC direct care targets, advocates say
• RELEASE: Families & Advocates Announce Legal Action as Ford Government Grants New Long-Term Care Licenses to Corporations with Hideous Records
• 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
• 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”
• RELEASE: New report on the spread of COVID, LTC outbreaks, hospitalizations & deaths raises red flags despite the Ford government’s suppression of COVID Data
• 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
• 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
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Ford Government’s Claims Re. Forcing Elderly Patients into Long-Term Care in Contravention of their Right to Consent
• 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”