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The Niagara Health System is planning to close about 120 hospitals beds at the Welland Hospital. The beds are housed in a wing of the Welland hospital that includes an “extended care unit” and a “long-term care unit”. The Ontario Health Coalition calls upon Health Minister Deb Matthews to intervene to protect these services at the Welland hospital
This report appeals for equity and improved access to hospital services in rural Ontario and is based on input received from more than 1,150 people who attended 12 hearings in regions across Ontario in March 2010. The coalition organized its own public hearings after the government’s own rural and northern health panel, created after hospital closures in small and rural communities, refused to hold any public consultations. In total the coalition received 487 submissions into the state and future of local hospitals. The report has been written and submitted to the Ontario Health Coalition by a non-partisan panel including doctors, nurses, health professional, representatives of each region of Ontario, and representatives active in each political party.
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Already struggling to cope with increased demand and inadequate funding, hospitals have been told to plan for a funding freeze for 2010/11. This will be the first time Ontario has frozen funding for hospitals since the Harris government did so in the mid-1990s. Ontario Hospitals are among the most lean in Canada. There is no room to cut further without impacting on patient care. Send a message to your MPP at this fast and easy-to-use web site hosted by the 30,000 health care professionals and support staff represented by OPSEU. Go to www.avoidingzero.ca and send your message now.
A major round of hospital restructuring and cuts is underway in every health region in the province causing major layoffs, privatization and threaten local Emergency Rooms, birthing facilities and hospital beds. This new briefing note by the Ontario Health Coalition examines the cuts region by region. This year and next, provincial budget levels for hospital global budgets are insufficient to meet hospital rates of inflation and population growth. Cabinet-appointed Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) are reviewing services in hospitals with deficits, and at the behest of the provincial government, are forcing hospitals to eliminate their deficits through drastic cuts.
Economist Kim Jarvi’s presentation to the Ontario Health Coalition’s Summit on Hospital Cuts and Restructuring
A presentation and abstract by Economist Robin Somerville of the Centre for Spatial Economics to the OHC’s Hospital Cuts summit.
OHC Director Natalie Mehra presentation to the Hospital Cuts summit followed by presentations by Dr. Ray Dawes, Dr. Joel Lexchin and Judith Wahl.
Natalie Mehra examines what we can expect across the province based on the experience of restructuring in Niagara.
Video: Local Fightback Campaigns to Save Community HospitalsReports from Walter Donaldson of the Friends of Ajax-Pickering Hospital, Joyce Jolliffe of Strathroy and Vern Edwards of the Midland Health Coalition as well as Q & A and discussion during the OHC’s Emergency Hospitals Summit.
(January 31, 2009)
A major round of hospital restructuring and cuts is underway across Ontario. The Ontario government’s planned underfunding of hospital global budgets means that 50% of Ontario’s hospitals have experienced deficits in the current fiscal year (March 08- March 09). The situation is projected to worsen in the upcoming fiscal year when 70% of Ontario’s hospitals will fall into deficit (March 09 – March 2010). Hospitals are forbidden to run deficits and must create service plans to eliminate deficits. This fact sheet includes a list of services which may be cut or moved out of town and the ministry’s “prioritization framework” for hospitals.
This fact sheet outlines the findings of an independent report on Ontario’s hospitals that was done by the HayGroup in 2004 which found that hospitals of every size in Ontario are significantly more efficient and more cost-effective when compared to hospitals across the country.
We have developed a campaign postcards, bumper stickers, posters, postcards and buttons in order to promote the campaign against hospital cuts. We can make printed material available on a cost recovery basis or you can download the images and produce your own material.
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