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The Ontario government is celebrating the completion of Mount Sinai Hospitals redevelopment project that will ensure people can access the care they need, when they need it, for years to [...]

TORONTO, June 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In response to https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/report-release-unprecedented-and-worsening-ontarios-local-hospital-closures-2023/, the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) is holding public hearings across Ontario to develop recommendations for the future of our [...]

TORONTO, June 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In response to more than 1,200 closures of emergency departments and other local hospital services over the last year, the Ontario Health Coalition [...]

TORONTO, June 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In response to more than 1,200 closures of emergency departments and other local hospital services over the last year, the Ontario Health Coalition [...]

Byline: ALLISON JONES; THE CANADIAN PRESS A program that helps rural and Northern Ontario hospitals avoid temporary ER closings is set to expire at the end of the month, after [...]

TORONTO, May 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Raising the alarm about the urgent threat to public health care, the Ontario Health Coalition is mobilizing thousands of Ontarians to fightback against [...]

TORONTO, May 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Raising the alarm about the urgent threat to public health care, the Ontario Health Coalition is mobilizing thousands of Ontarians to fightback against [...]

TORONTO: CANADIAN UNION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES has issued the following news release: After more than a year of appeals to SickKids management have virtually fallen on deaf ears, the exasperated [...]

Byline: KELLY GRANT; Staff The Ontario government isn't adequately tracking what hospitals and long-term care homes spend on private, for-profit staffing agencies, according to a trio of reports from the [...]

Reports released by Ontario’s acting Auditor-General Nick Stavropoulos say turning to private agencies is a ‘costly and unsustainable’ solution to a national nursing shortage, The Ontario government isn’t adequately tracking what hospitals and long-term care homes spend on private, for-profit staffing agencies, according to a trio of reports from the auditor-general that reveal the [...]

Advocacy group says staff shortages, lack of government funding for small and rural hospitals to blame, Updated: December 05, 2023 Staff shortages have forced emergency rooms and other key health care facilities across Ontario to shut their doors nearly 1,200 times this year, according to numbers [...]

TORONTO: A new report, Robbing from the public to build the private: The Ford government's hospital privatization scheme reveals that local hospitals in every region of Ontario have operating rooms [...]

TORONTO -- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) unites multiple geographically distinct hospitals with PhenoTips' cloud-hosted Genomic Health Record (GHR) to digitize genomics and deliver on 'Our Way [...]

Byline: ALLISON JONES; THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Ontario is extending funding that helps rural and northern hospitals avoid temporary ER closings, after previously saying it would end after the [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS Some Eastern Ontario hospitals are bringing back mask requirements in patient-care areas as the respiratory virus season approaches. Kingston Health Sciences Centre says on its website [...]

TORONTO: Drawing on new data from Freedom of Information requests, financial and statistical analysis, and research, a new report raises red flags about the Ford government's privatization of our public [...]

To help improve patient care through better information access, a group of 21 Ontario-based hospitals and facilities are now benefitting from Ontario eHub Health Information Exchange (HIE) powered by Oracle [...]

TORONTO: The Ontario Health Coalition announced the results of a mass community-run referendum, where Ontarians were given the opportunity to have their say on if they would like their public [...]

TORONTO, May 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition announced the results of a mass community-run referendum, where Ontarians were given the opportunity to have their say on [...]

TORONTO: Ontario Health Coalition has issued the following news release: A map listing all voting stations across the province is available online at https://publichospitalvote.ca/find-voting-station This is what it looks like [...]

OTTAWA: CUPE has issued the following news release: A staggering number of Ottawa registered practical nurses (RPNs) may leave their jobs based on poll findings showing that more than 60% [...]

The Ontario government is investing $97 million over three years to launch a pilot program at three major hospitals in Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa to help children and youth with [...]

TORONTO, NIAGARA, OTTAWA, WATERLOO, and WINDSOR, Ontario, Dec. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition has tracked hospital cuts, closures, service closures and overcrowding for more than two [...]

TORONTO, NIAGARA, OTTAWA, WATERLOO, and WINDSOR, Ontario, Dec. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition has tracked hospital cuts, closures, service closures and overcrowding for more than two [...]

HAMILTON: Home Care Ontario has issued the following press release: Accelerating the government's recent investment in home care is critical to stabilizing its workforce, taking pressure off our struggling hospitals, [...]

TORONTO: The Ontario Health Coalition is holding a series of emergency town halls across Ontario by Zoom to force the Ford government to address the hospital crisis and take urgent [...]

Attn: Assignment Editor MEDIA ADVISORY TORONTO, Nov. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What: The Ontario Health Coalition is holding a series of emergency town halls across Ontario by Zoom to [...]

TORONTO: Canadian Union of Public Employees has issued the following news release: Unless Toronto area hospitals hire 15,000 staff annually, problems with spiking emergency room wait times and unprecedented staffing [...]

OTTAWA, Ontario: Canadian Union of Public Employees has issued the following news release: Unless Ottawa hospitals hire more than 3000 staff, yearly spiking emergency room wait times at hospitals like [...]

TORONTO -- Facing another weekend of severe hospital staff shortages, and the potential for more hospital emergency room and other care unit cuts and closures, Ontario's provincial government must not [...]

TORONTO: SEIU Healthcare and OCHU/CUPE, unions representing 70,000 hospital workers across Ontario, issued open letters to hospital executives and the provincial government for full transparency and staff support to fix [...]