Number of Ontario hospital emergency closures soars to new record: Health Coalition demands Ford government finally take action
December 05, 2023 09:45 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Dec. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new report, Unprecedented and Worsening: Ontario’s Local Hospital Closures 2023 released by the Ontario Health Coalition at Queen’s Park this morning,...
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
December 04, 2023 10:55 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
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...
Ford Government Expanded For-Profit Hospital in Violation of the Law and While Lying to the Public: Health Coalition and Democracy Watch Call for Concrete Measures to Protect the Public Interest in Wake of Revelations about Former Health Minister Lobbying for For-Profit Hospital
November 20, 2023 14:38 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, Nov. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The revelation that former Health Minister Christine Elliott has registered as a lobbyist for a for-profit hospital known as Don Mills Surgical Unit, now...
Patients, doctors, health workers, nurses, advocates converge on the Ontario Legislature & across northern Ontario today in opposition to Ford’s hospital privatization
September 25, 2023 08:00 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
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...
Major protests on Ontario Legislature’s opening: Thousands to oppose Ford’s hospital privatization
September 21, 2023 08:00 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
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...
Press conference: Small, rural & local hospitals’ services under grave threat of permanent closures, Ford government doing “substantially nothing”
September 15, 2023 08:00 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
CHESLEY, Ontario, Sept. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- “Emergency departments are repeatedly closing down, birthing closed, critical care gravely understaffed, and yet the Ford government is doing...
Press conference: Small, rural & local hospitals’ services under grave threat of permanent closures, Ford government doing “substantially nothing”
September 14, 2023 14:13 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
CHESLEY, Ontario, Sept. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- “Emergency departments are repeatedly closing down, birthing closed, critical care gravely understaffed, and yet the Ford government is doing...
Niagara Residents Travel to Queen’s Park to Demand Ford Government Stop the Overnight Closure of their Hospitals’ Urgent Care Centres
June 05, 2023 15:41 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO and NIAGARA, Ontario, June 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On Wednesday, the day before the Minden emergency department was closed permanently, the Niagara Health System revealed plans to close...
MEDIA ADVISORY: 400,000 Ontarians vote to stop the privatization of Ontario’s public hospitals: Health Coalition announces results of Huge People’s Referendum
May 31, 2023 13:25 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
TORONTO, May 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ontario Health Coalition announced the results of a mass community-run referendum, where Ontarians were given the opportunity to have their say on if...
REPEAT - MEDIA ADVISORY: Results of Huge People’s Referendum to stop the privatization of Ontario’s public hospitals to be announced
May 30, 2023 08:00 ET
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Ontario Health Coalition
Attn: Assignment Editor Almost a thousand voting stations were staffed by thousands of volunteers in a massive effort to force the Ford government to respect democratic process and input on their...