Tag: Ontario hospitals
about 1 year ago
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Complaints about lack of ‘courtesy,’ ‘respect’ in hospitals spiked during pandemic’s second year,...

Ontario’s patient ombudsman says his office saw a spike in complaints during the second year of the pandemic.

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Front-line GTA doctors say hospitals are in as much trouble as ever during COVID. Is th...

Beyond current pressures from respiratory viruses, staffing and structural problems, they fear that the crisis will l...

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over 1 year ago
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Ontarians 18 and up can get the Omicron-specific booster shot as of Sept. 26, province says

Dr. Kieran Moore, the chief medical officer of health, made the announcement Monday.

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over 1 year ago
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Ford government pushes hospitals to bill patients who won’t leave when cleared for long-term care

Ontario is taking a tougher stand against elderly patients in a bid to free up hospital beds to ease emergency room a...

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over 1 year ago
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Doug Ford Tories unveil health-care changes to free up hospital capacity but stress ‘Ontarians wi...

Health Minister Sylvia Jones and Long-Term Care Minister Paul Calandra unveiled a suite of changes that may not appea...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Doug Ford’s new health minister stumbled out of the gate. Here’s what she needs to do now

In its hour of greatest need, Ontario’s health care is being run by a minister still learning on the job, and still s...

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over 1 year ago
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Opinion | Who can fix Ontario’s health-care crisis? Not our new health minister

Ontario’s greatest problem right now was laid bare in the pandemic: the hollowing out of our medical system with a cr...

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over 1 year ago
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Doug Ford should put his money where his mouth is and pay nurses more, health unions say

The Ontario Nurses’ Association, Canadian Union of Public Employees and SEIU Healthcare unions have proposed several ...

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over 1 year ago
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Doug Ford says Ontario is working to end the hospital crisis — including the fast-tracking of for...

Premier Doug Ford says the province is doing everything it can and accelerating the accreditation of foreign-trained ...

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over 1 year ago
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Doug Ford urged to cut hospital wait times and reopen ERs

Ontario’s health-care system is under increasing pressure and the premier is being urged to act faster.

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almost 2 years ago
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Violence is driving female hospital workers to quit, union says

An “exodus” of staff from hospitals will worsen unless the Ontario government tackles a growing problem of violence a...

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