Ontario Health Coalition Announces Our Highest Awards for 2022: This year’s recipients have shown extraordinary commitment to safeguarding public health care and advocacy for long-term care residents and their families
October 21, 2022 16:46 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Oct. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- They contributed in unique ways, but each demonstrated extraordinary commitment to the public interest, the Ontario Health Coalition reported as it...
Ontario Health Coalition releases new report on the spread of COVID, LTC outbreaks, hospitalizations & deaths that raises red flags despite the Ford government’s suppression of COVID Data
October 21, 2022 08:00 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Oct. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to The Ontario Health Coalition, the Ford government has ceased regular reporting on the spread of COVID-19. Public Health no longer publishes...
Health Coalitions denounce for-profit deal by Canadian Blood Services that endangers Canada’s Blood Supply
September 20, 2022 17:19 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
OTTAWA, Sept. 20, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (the traditional and unceded territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin people) Canada’s provincial and territorial Health Coalitions and the Canadian Health...
Furious at the “grotesque” ageism and violation of human rights, advocates respond to Ford government’s planned regulations to push elderly patients out of hospital
September 15, 2022 17:46 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Sept. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ford government has released its regulations under the euphemistically titled More Beds, Better Care Act (formerly Bill 7) today. The regulations are...
REPEAT – Ontario Health Coalition: Press Conference: Advocates Respond to Ford Government’s New Law Violating the Rights of Elderly Hospital Patients
September 15, 2022 08:00 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Sept. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The following is a statement by the Ontario Health Coalition: What: Leading advocates for elderly patients are responding to the Health Minister’s...
Ontario Health Coalition: Press Conference: Advocates Respond to Ford Government’s New Law Violating the Rights of Elderly Hospital Patients
September 14, 2022 17:13 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Sept. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The following is a statement by the Ontario Health Coalition: What: Leading advocates for elderly patients are responding to the Health Minister’s...
Ontario Health Coalition: Fact Checker: Ford Government’s Claims Re. Forcing Elderly Patients into Long-Term Care in Contravention of their Right to Consent
August 25, 2022 17:18 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Aug. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The following is a statement by the Ontario Health Coalition: Here are the facts about the Ford government’s new legislation, Bill 7 – More Beds, Better...
Ontario Health Coalition: Doug Ford's new legislation being pushed through the Legislature gives new powers to force the elderly & persons with disabilities into substandard long-term care homes: "morally repugnant"
August 19, 2022 15:03 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Aug. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Advocates and experts spoke with one voice today decrying the new law that the Ford government introduced yesterday and intends to pass within just two...
REPEAT – Pushing Elderly Patients into Long-Term Care Homes Not of their Choice a Violation of Fundamental Rights
August 19, 2022 08:00 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
Attn: Assignment Editor MEDIA ADVISORYPress Conference Friday Morning TORONTO, Aug. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading advocates for elderly patients will respond to the Ford government's...
Ontario Health Coalition response to Ford government’s plans to move seniors out of hospitals & privatize hospital diagnostics and surgeries to for-profit clinics and hospitals
August 18, 2022 18:08 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Aug. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ford government released what it called a five-point health care plan this morning in a press conference. In summary: On COVID-19 there was...