Ontario Health (agency)

Ontario Health Coalition: Families & Advocates Announce Legal Action as Ford Government Grants New Long-Term Care Licenses to Corporations with Hideous Records

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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Two hundred and six of Orchard Villa’s 233 residents contracted COVID-19 and more than 70 died.

Key Points: 
  • Two hundred and six of Orchard Villa’s 233 residents contracted COVID-19 and more than 70 died.
  • At 30 deaths per 100 residents, Orchard Villa has one of the worst pandemic death records in Ontario.
  • This should have been its own “never again” contend the families and the Health Coalition, but it does not end there.
  • “The Ford government promised accountability but is doing the opposite,” said Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition.

Number of Ontario hospital emergency closures soars to new record: Health Coalition demands Ford government finally take action

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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Now, the Coalition found that the number of emergency department closures has increased even more.

Key Points: 
  • Now, the Coalition found that the number of emergency department closures has increased even more.
  • The town of Durham in Western Ontario has had at least 51 emergency department closures in 2023 to date.
  • “It is indisputable that these closures are endangering the health of Ontario residents,” warned Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition.
  • The Health Coalition demanded the Ford government take real action to address the crisis.

Ontario Health Coalition/Media Conference - New report details more than 900 hospital service closures: Residents from hard hit communities to bring messages to Doug Ford

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Monday, December 4, 2023
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TORONTO, Dec. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Across Ontario, the frequency and severity of hospital closures is unprecedented and it’s getting worse.

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, Dec. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Across Ontario, the frequency and severity of hospital closures is unprecedented and it’s getting worse.
  • That’s the message of a new report from the Ontario Health Coalition that details almost a thousand closures of the most urgent of our local hospitals’ services.
  • The report is being released in a press conference featuring residents, nurses, and a physician from the hardest hit towns and regions across Ontario.
  • After the press conference, the community representatives will try to get their message to Doug Ford and his government.

HRM Task Force: Reducing the administrative burden of digital reports

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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The HRM Task Force has spent the past year evaluating solutions resulting in two reports.

Key Points: 
  • The HRM Task Force has spent the past year evaluating solutions resulting in two reports.
  • The recommendations from both reports were made to help doctors spend less time handling reports and allow more time for patient care.
  • Reducing the volume of reports from hospitals to EMRs, and improving the searchability of reports, would go a long way to easing the burden of reviewing digital reports and ensuring patient safety is maintained.
  • A handful of hospitals have already initiated work to reduce the number of digital and faxed reports going to doctors.

Patients, doctors, health workers, nurses, advocates converge on the Ontario Legislature & across northern Ontario today in opposition to Ford’s hospital privatization

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Monday, September 25, 2023
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TORONTO and ALGOMA, Ontario and DRYDEN, Ontario and THUNDER BAY, Ontario, Sept. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The people of Ontario have built up our local public hospitals and their services over 100 years.

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO and ALGOMA, Ontario and DRYDEN, Ontario and THUNDER BAY, Ontario, Sept. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The people of Ontario have built up our local public hospitals and their services over 100 years.
  • For more than 50 years, for-profit hospitals have been banned in our province.
  • Now, the Ford government is dismantling our local public hospitals in a concerted effort to privatize them, warns the Ontario Health Coalition which is planning a major protest on Monday, the day the Legislature opens.
  • There will be a second protest Tuesday for Jewish communities as the Ford government set the Legislature’s opening day on Yom Kippur.

Major protests on Ontario Legislature’s opening: Thousands to oppose Ford’s hospital privatization

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Thursday, September 21, 2023
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TORONTO, Ontario and ALGOMA, Ontario and DRYDEN, Ontario and THUNDER BAY, Ontario, Sept. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The people of Ontario have built up our local public hospitals and their services over 100 years.

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, Ontario and ALGOMA, Ontario and DRYDEN, Ontario and THUNDER BAY, Ontario, Sept. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The people of Ontario have built up our local public hospitals and their services over 100 years.
  • Now, the Ford government is dismantling our local public hospitals in a concerted effort to privatize them, warns the Ontario Health Coalition which is planning a major protest on Monday, the day the Legislature opens.
  • There will be a second protest Tuesday for Jewish communities as the Ford government set the Legislature’s opening day on Yom Kippur.
  • The Coalition has vowed to use every tool available to the public to stop Ford's health privatization schemes.

Ontario Community-Based Clinicians Now Have Access to Digital Medication Information Through Their Electronic Medical Record

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
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TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2023 /CNW/ - The Digital Health Drug Repository (DHDR) has been successfully deployed to more than 6,000 clinicians across Ontario who use OMD-certified electronic medical record (EMR) systems.

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2023 /CNW/ - The Digital Health Drug Repository (DHDR) has been successfully deployed to more than 6,000 clinicians across Ontario who use OMD-certified electronic medical record (EMR) systems.
  • These clinicians now have secure and real-time technical access from within their EMR to comprehensive dispensed patient medication information for drugs covered by the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) program and the Narcotics Monitoring System.
  • The DHDR, developed by the Ministry of Health and Ontario Health consolidates medical data, providing clinicians with the medication information they need to care for their patients while enhancing  patient safety, and building more efficient health-care practices.
  • OntarioMD and Ontario Health will continue to work together to furthering digital health innovation to drive positive change in Ontario's health-care landscape.

Niagara Residents Travel to Queen’s Park to Demand Ford Government Stop the Overnight Closure of their Hospitals’ Urgent Care Centres

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Monday, June 5, 2023
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Local community members with the Ontario Health Coalition are travelling to Queen’s Park on Tuesday to demand that the Ford government take action to stop the closures.

Key Points: 
  • Local community members with the Ontario Health Coalition are travelling to Queen’s Park on Tuesday to demand that the Ford government take action to stop the closures.
  • When: Tuesday, June 6 at 12:30 p.m.
    Who: Local advocates: Heather Kelly Fort Erie SOS group, Niagara Health Coalition; Sue Hotte, Niagara Health Coalition.
  • Niagara MPPs Wayne Gates, Niagara Falls (and Fort Erie) and Jeff Burch, Niagara Centre (inclu.
  • For more information: Sue Hotte, Niagara Health Coalition 905-932-1646 cell and Natalie Mehra, executive director, Ontario Health Coalition 416-230-6402 (cell).

The Canadian Vaping Association says NDP Health Critic France Gélinas’ vaping bill is out of touch with regulatory realities

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Monday, May 1, 2023
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The bill would also require Ontario Health to prepare an annual report on vaping usage and fund research and awareness campaigns.

Key Points: 
  • The bill would also require Ontario Health to prepare an annual report on vaping usage and fund research and awareness campaigns.
  • The Canadian Vaping Association (CVA) says it doesn’t oppose the bill’s proposal to restrict sales to specialty vape stores.
  • Specialty vape stores are the only age-restricted retailer of vaping products, requiring patrons to be at least 19 years old to enter the premises.
  • MPP Gélinas’ bill is a transparent attempt by an opposition member to capitalize on vaping misperceptions and gain political points.

Ontario Health Coalition Province-Wide Community Referendum to Stop Ford Government’s Privatization of Our Public Hospitals

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023
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TORONTO, April 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Health Coalitions across Ontario launched a major fightback to stop the privatization of our public hospitals today.

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, April 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Health Coalitions across Ontario launched a major fightback to stop the privatization of our public hospitals today.
  • The premier told media that 50% of the surgeries currently done in hospitals are “easy” [and thus could be transferred out of public hospitals].
  • If this government succeeds in privatizing our public hospitals, we will lose our public hospital system and with it, single-tier public medicare.
  • The Ontario Health Coalition is asking people everywhere across the province to volunteer to help.