Action Plan to Stop the Spread of COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Inadequate: Ford government must match rhetoric with stronger, concrete measures to protect residents and staff
April 16, 2020 11:51 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, April 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ford government’s Action Plan to address COVID-19 outbreaks in Ontario’s long-term care homes is still less than what is needed stop the spread of the...
COVID-19 infections among more than a dozen long-term care homes and almost 100 health care workers infected in Ontario: Health Coalition
March 31, 2020 17:58 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, March 31, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition has been tracking the number of residents and staff infected with COVID-19 in long-term care homes as well as the number of...
Why Are So Few Ontarians Being Tested and Tracked? Health Coalition Raises Questions About COVID-19 Numbers
March 31, 2020 15:17 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, March 31, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Around the world, stories are emerging from jurisdictions that have done thorough testing and tracking of COVID-19 cases. There is a deep consensus that...
Ford Government’s Home Care Changes Dismantle Public Control, Risk Privatization: Health Coalition
March 05, 2020 12:58 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, March 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a press conference at the Ontario Legislature today, spokespeople for the Ontario Health Coalition raised concerns about the Ford government’s new...
Media Advisory: Ontario Health Coalition release of new report "Caring in Crisis: Ontario’s Long-Term Care PSW Shortage"
January 27, 2020 11:39 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Jan. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wednesday, January 29, marks the first day of a cross-province tour of a new report, Caring in Crisis: Ontario’s Long-Term Care PSW Shortage. The issue of...
Province Ignored Repeated Warnings and Evidence Leading to Yesterday’s Declaration of “State of Emergency” in Brampton Hospital, Similar Issues Apply Across Ontario
January 24, 2020 10:53 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO and BRAMPTON, Ontario, Jan. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Following the city’s declaration of a health care emergency in Brampton, on the heels of CBC’s release of new hospital overcrowding...
New CBC Hospital Overcrowding Data Should Compel Much More Substantive & Urgent Response from Ford Government: Health Coalition
January 22, 2020 13:12 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Jan. 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Responding to the CBC’s release of new Ontario hospital overcrowding data that shows the majority of the province’s hospitals have been operating at...
Crisis Shortage of PSWs in Ontario's Long-Term Care Homes: New Report
December 09, 2019 14:38 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Dec. 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) released a new report today developed in partnership with UNIFOR on the Personal Support Worker (PSW) crisis in...
REPEAT -- MEDIA ADVISORY: Thousands Expected at Nathan Phillips Square to Stop Ford’s Cuts to and Elimination of Local Public Health Units, Ambulance Services, Hospitals, and Long-term Care
November 09, 2019 07:00 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Nov. 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Calling on the Doug Ford government to stop health cuts and privatization, thousands of Greater Toronto Area residents will come together at Nathan...
MEDIA ADVISORY: Thousands Expected at Nathan Phillips Square to Stop Ford’s Cuts to and Elimination of Local Public Health Units, Ambulance Services, Hospitals, and Long-term Care
November 07, 2019 07:00 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Nov. 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Calling on the Doug Ford government to stop health cuts and privatization, thousands of Greater Toronto Area residents will come together at Nathan...