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HOSPITAL REPORTS AND BRIEFING NOTES

• McGuinty Government Fails to Take Hospital Secrecy Off the Table - Amendment to Budget Bill Gives Hospitals Wide Berth to Hide Information
  UPDATE: Six McGuinty government MPPs voted to pass the “hospital secrecy clause” in this morning’s (May 5th) Finance and Economic Affairs Committee meeting. The clause (Bill 173, Schedule 15), a loophole which will allow hospital CEOs to deny requests for public access to an array of information regarding quality of healthcare in hospitals, was slipped into the government’s Budget Bill after lobbying of the government by the Ontario Hospital Association and insurance companies. For more information on this morning’s developments see our media release.
  
  Public interest and patient advocates are calling on Premier McGuinty to withdraw a controversial clause slipped into the Budget Bill that will enable hospitals to hide information from the public. Earlier this month, the McGuinty government included a clause – Schedule 15 – in the Budget Measures Bill (173) that would enable hospital CEOs to shield from public scrutiny any information about quality of care produced for or by a hospital committee. The government has pushed through the budget bill quickly, opting for only one day of public hearings last week, on the eve of a national holiday. A proposed amendment announced by the government provides no substantive change. The OHC has made a written submission to the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs Regarding Bill 173.       MAY 5 MEDIA RELEASE       APRIL 29 MEDIA RELEASE       OHC SUBMISSION ON BILL 173     (April/May 2011)
  Below is correspondence between Tom Closson, President and CEO of the Ontario Hospital Association, who supports the hospital secrecy clause, and Natalie Mehra, Director of the Ontario Health Coalition, opposing it.       CORRESPONDENCE WITH TOM CLOSSON     (May 2011)
  
  
  
• Ontario Health Coalition Analysis of the Peterborough Hospital Peer Review & Hospital “Improvement” Plan (HIP)
  According to a detailed analysis conducted by the OHC, the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) Hospital Improvement Plan (HIP) recommends draconian cuts to staffing levels and proposes significant cuts to hospital beds and services, though it does not reveal the extent of these service reductions because it continues to list unstaffed (and therefore unusable beds) as open beds. The reduction in public hospital services for the Peterborough community and surrounding region proposed in the so-called Hospital Improvement Plan is based on the findings of the Peer Review relating to key performance indicators and financial data. In our analysis of the two documents - the HIP and the Peer Review – we have found that the financial “crisis” is overstated and key financial information has not been provided and the methodology used to determine the PRHC’s status in key performance indicators is deeply flawed.       ANALYSIS           (June 21, 2010)
  
• Toward Equality and Access: Realigning Ontario’s Approach to Small and Rural Hospitals to Serve Public Values
  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.       MEDIA RELEASE       SUMMARY       FULL REPORT           (May 17, 2010) BACKGROUND:     HEARINGS POSTER       MARCH 4 MEDIA RELEASE ANNOUNCING THE HEARINGS          
  
• Putting Patients at Risk: Interviews with Ontario Paramedics on the Consequences of Closing Local Emergency Departments
  A new report, based on interviews with 50 paramedics across Ontario, on what the provincial government’s planned emergency room closures would mean for patient care in communities across the province. The report will address the following questions:
• What do paramedics think of the Ontario government’s plan to close small and rural hospital emergency rooms?
• Can paramedics really replace hospital emergency rooms?
• What are the implications for patients and customers of ambulance services?       MEDIA RELEASE       SUMMARY       FULL REPORT           (June 18, 2009)
  
• Briefing Note on Ontario’s Hospital Cuts and Restructuring 2008/2009
  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.       MEDIA RELEASE      BRIEFING NOTE     (December 2, 2008)
  
  
• Briefing Note on the Ontario Hospital Association/Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Report on Core Services in Small, Rural and Remote Hospitals
  Review and analysis of the report by a Joint Policy and Planning Committee (JPPC) of the MOHLTC and the OHA.       BRIEFING NOTE     (June 29, 2007)
  
  
• OHC's Submission to the SARS Commission
  Contains our analysis of the Ontario SARS break, the impact of cuts on the crisis and a series of recommendations.       SUBMISSION     (November 18, 2003)
  
  
• Fleuelling letters
  Correspondence by the Ontario Health Coalition to successive Ontario Ministers of Health regarding the inquest into the death of Joshua Fleuelling.       LETTERS     (January 18, 2001)
  
  
• Public Pain, Private Gain: The Privatisation of Health Care in Ontario
  32 page summary of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative’s report: Tipping the Balance: Health Care Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario       SUMMARY     (Summer 2000)
  
  
• Hamilton Organizing Saves Hospitals
  Pressure from the community forces the government to commit to keeping keeping Henderson, McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton General and St. Joseph's open with increased funding.       ARTICLE     (May 2000)
  
  
• Response to the Metropolitan Toronto Health Services Restructuring Commission Report
  Ontario Health Coalition opposes recommendations for cuts, downloading and two-tier health.       SUBMISSION     ( April 21, 1997)
  
  

• Hospital Cuts & Restructuring: a Closer Look
  (January 31, 2006)
• Women as Workers in the Health Care System
  (February 2003)
• Privatization of Medicare and Women
  (February 2003)
• Health Care Restructuring and Women's Access to Medicare
  (February 2003)
• Hospital Funding Fact Sheet
  (January 2000)
• Hospital Fact Sheet #2
  (May 1999)
• Hospital Fact Sheet #1
  (February 1999)

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