CUTS & RESTRUCTURING EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Cuts + Restructuring Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases

RELEASE: Health care in crisis in northwestern Ontario: communities demand urgent solutions from Ford government (9/13/2024)

RELEASE: Community and union leaders announce legal action, demand Ford declare a moratorium to save the Durham hospital (5/23/2024)

FACT SHEET: Two-Tier Health Care and Private Clinics (3/8/2022)

RELEASE: Health Coalitions Call for Increased Federal Health Care Funding and Accountability (12/10/2020)

RELEASE & SUBMISSION: Ford Government’s New Home Care Bill “Irredeemable” and Should Not Be Pushed Through During a Pandemic: Coalition Calls for it to be Withdrawn (6/15/2020)

RELEASE & BACKGROUNDER: Pre-budget brief: Ontario so far behind that emergency funding just brings us to where we should have been pre-COVID-19 (3/25/2020)

RELEASE: Residents Plan to Step Up Pressure to Ask MPP Fedeli to Save the North Bay Hospital’s Residential Addictions Treatment Program (3/11/2020)

RELEASE: New CBC Hospital Overcrowding Data Should Compel Much More Substantive & Urgent Response from Ford Government: Health Coalition (1/22/2020)

SUBMISSION: Ontario Health Coalition’s Pre-Budget Submission to the Ontario Legislative Assembly (1/17/2020)

RELEASE: Health Coalition & Broad Array of Groups Launch Campaign to Build Mass “Stadium-filling” Event to Save Local Health Care Services (10/10/2019)

RELEASE: Ford Government Cuts to Long-Term Care Funding Risk Already Over-Stressed Care Levels (7/10/2019)

RELEASE: Ford Governments Health Cuts Negatively Impact Patient Care: Coalition Calls Out Ford Government for “Dissembling” and Lack of Public Accountability (6/19/2019)

RELEASE: Ontario Health Coalition Statement on Today’s Mental Health Funding Announcement by Ford Government (5/6/2019)

RELEASE: More than 10,000 Protest to tell Ford Government to stop health privatization, cuts (5/1/2019)

UPDATE: 13++ Reasons to Come to the Giant Health Care Rally! (4/29/2019)

RELEASE: Unprecedented Health Action Day Calls on Doug Ford to Halt Health Privatization Plans (4/23/2019)

RELEASE: Ford’s ambulance and public health cuts and restructuring come with high costs, reduced services: Coalition warns (4/18/2019)

RELEASE: Budget Health Care Briefing: What is being Cut, Myth Buster, What is Coming (4/11/2019)

RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BRIEFING NOTE: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns (4/1/2019)

VIDEO: Doug Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliott obfuscate questions on health privatization (3/27/2019)

EVENTS: Town Hall Meetings (3/22/2019)

RELEASE: Ford Government is Steamrolling Health Restructuring Law Through in “Outrageously Undemocratic” Process Warns Health Coalition: Local Services at Risk (3/18/2019)

RELEASE: Warning that Leaked Health Care Omnibus Bill Would Create Health Care Chaos: Longstanding Leaders of Organizations Representing Patients, Care Workers, Doctors (2/11/2019)

RELEASE: Leaked omnibus health bill goes far beyond merging the LHINs (2/1/2019)

BLOG POST: Ford Government Health Care Report Not a Prescription for a Cure: Coalition Takes Serious Issue with Devlin’s Claims (1/31/2019)

RELEASE: Health Coalition Extremely Concerned About LHIN Restructuring Rumours (1/24/2019)

RELEASE: Thousands Demand Doug Ford Disavow Health Care Privatization and Cuts – Other Political Parties Respond Positively to Coalition’s Demand for Services to be Rebuilt & Restored (10/23/2018)

RELEASE: Ontario Election 2018 Health Care Resources (6/4/2018)

RELEASE: $22 billion in cuts to funding for public services planned by Mr. Ford, worse than Harris, we are “extremely worried” (6/3/2018)

RELEASE: Provincial Election Discussion Should be About Rebuilding Public Hospitals & Long-Term Care Not “Efficiencies” or “Lean” or Code Words for Cuts: Health Coalition Calls for Concrete Commitments to Redress the Crisis in Access to Care (5/16/2018)

RELEASE: Deeply concerned about Doug Ford’s planned revenue cuts, comparison of parties’ commitments on key health care issues (4/13/2018)

RELEASE: Doug Ford’s Figures “Way Off”: Coalition Deeply Concerned About His Statements on Hospitals in Northern Ontario (4/13/2018)

URGENT ACTION ALERT: New Bill Allows Private For-Profit Hospitals & More Private For-Profit Clinics (11/24/2017)

VIDEO: Impassioned debate in legislature on hospital cuts featuring quotes from OHC (11/2/2017)

RELEASE: Thousands of Patients Lining Hospital Hallways in Brampton “Code Gridlock” Just the Tip of the Iceberg (10/31/2017)

RELEASE: Wynne Government’s Hospital Bed Announcement a Temporary Band-Aid But Health Coalition Slams Expanding Health Care Privatization (10/23/2017)

RELEASE & REPORT: The Elephant at the Health Ministers’ Meetings: How Will Provinces Cope with $31 Billion Cut (10/18/2017)

CALLOUT: Join the Campaign to fight the Hamilton hospital cuts (8/8/2017)

RELEASE: Hamilton’s Hospitals Have Passed the Tipping Point: Urgent campaign launched to stop $27-million in cuts (8/8/2017)

RELEASE: Health Coalition Responds to Wettlaufer Inquiry Announcement (8/1/2017)

RELEASE: Inquiry Should Look into All Recent Homicides, Systemic Issues in Long-Term Care: Health Coalition (6/28/2017)

EVENT: Public Consultation on Public Hospital Reform (6/2/2017)

EVENT: We Can’t “Bear” to Lose Medicare Tour (6/2/2017)

RELEASE: Ontario Budget Health Care Investments Do Not Meet Expectations: Hospital Funding Inadequate to Stop Cuts & Meet Community’s Needs (4/28/2017)

RELEASE: Ontario Budget Health Care Investments Do Not Meet Expectations: Hospital Funding Inadequate to Stop Cuts & Meet Community’s Needs (4/27/2017)

RELEASE: As Prime Minister Trudeau meets with First Ministers, Health Coalition calls for both sides to give ground to forge a new Health Accord in the public interest (12/9/2016)

RELEASE: Coalition Applauds MPP Gates’ Call for Premier to Answer on Status of Niagara Falls Hospital (10/11/2016)

RELEASE: More than 94,000 Ontarians Join in Grassroots Referendum to Stop Devastating Hospital Cuts (5/31/2016)

RELEASE: Volunteer-Led Referendum Launched Across Ontario to Save Local Hospitals: Ontarians to Vote Saturday May 28 (4/25/2016)

ADVISORY CORRECTION: Volunteers in Communities Across Ontario are Mounting Referendum to Save Local Hospitals (4/22/2016)

RELEASE: Success! Patients, Residents Travel 700 kilometres to Ontario Legislature to Save the Wallaceburg Hospital’s Emergency Department (4/18/2016)

EVENT: Upcoming Town Hall Meetings: Attend one near you! (4/1/2016)

RELEASE: Welland Hospital Awareness Day at Ontario Legislature: Patients, Residents Demand Plan to Close Welland Hospital Be Stopped (3/21/2016)

RELEASE: Welland Hospital Plan Unveiled: Precarious Services are No Replacement for Hospital Closure, Coalition Warns (3/18/2016)

RELEASE: Devastating Hospital Cuts & Flawed Process for Health Reform Consultation: Key Issues for this Session of the Ontario Legislature (2/16/2016)

RELEASE: Patients, Concerned Citizens and Workers Rally Outside Pre-Budget Hearings to Stop Devastating Hospital Cuts, Privatization (2/1/2016)

UPDATE: Pre-budget hearing rallies! (2/1/2016)

EVENTS: Members of Provincial Parliament Traveling Across Ontario for Pre-Budget Hearings (1/11/2016)

RELEASE: A Thousand People Rally to Send Strong Message to Wynne Government: “Stop the Devastating Cuts to Local Hospitals” (12/4/2015)

RELEASE: Giant Protest Sends Message to Wynne Government: “We Can’t Take Any More Cuts” (11/13/2015)

EVENTS: Take Back Our Hospitals: Fall Days of Action in S/E Ont, N/E Ont, and Scarborough/Durham (10/23/2015)

EVENTS: Southwestern Ontario’s Day of Action to Stop Privatization and Protect Our Public Healthcare and Services! (7/6/2015)

VIDEO: Stopping Health Care Cuts (6/8/2015)

EVENTS: Join us at the upcoming Southwestern Ontario Day of Action (6/3/2015)

EVENTS: Join us at the upcoming Ottawa Region Day of Action (5/29/2015)

RELEASE: Homecare Roadmap has potential, but beware of some dangerous pitfalls: Health Coalition (5/13/2015)

RELEASE: Hundreds Rally to Stop Health Care Cuts and Privatization in First Day of Action — Protests Planned Across Ontario (4/17/2015)

ADVISORY: Leaders of Organizations Representing More than Half-A-Million Ontarians Join Forces to Stop the Hospital Cuts & Hospital/Home Care Privatization (4/15/2015)

ADVISORY: Media Conference with International Expert Condemning Niagara Hospital Closures (4/1/2015)

RELEASE: Leamington Day of Action at Queen’s Park (3/5/2015)

RELEASE: Protest at Liberal Cabinet Minister Deb Matthews’ Office to Stop Closure of Birthing Services, Cuts to Smaller Community Hospitals (2/28/2015)

ADVISORY: Essex County Residents to Deliver Hundreds of Newborn Hats to Cabinet Minister Deb Matthews’ Office in Rally to Save Maternity Services (2/13/2015)

ADVISORY: Thousands Rally at Ontario Legislature to Stop Unprecedented Cuts and Privatization that Threaten Community Hospitals All Across Ontario (11/18/2014)

RELEASE: More than 80,000 Ontarians Vote to Stop Wynne Government Plan to Cut Local Community Hospitals and Contract Out Care to Private Clinics: Health Care Advocates Call On the Premier and New Health Minister to Stop the Privatization Plan (7/17/2014)

RELEASE: Ontario Budget: Austerity Continues For Community Hospitals Plus Some Good News on Minimum Wage, Pensions (7/17/2014)

RELEASE: More than 56,000 Ontarians vote to stop the dismantling of community hospitals in volunteer-led referendum: Health Coalition (7/17/2014)

RELEASE: VOTE SATURDAY APRIL 5th TO SAVE OUR LOCAL HOSPITALS! (7/17/2014)

RELEASE: Scarborough-Ajax Facing Among the Worst Hospital Cuts in Ontario: Campaign Launched to Protect Services (7/17/2014)

RELEASE: Bad News Budget Will Result in Health Care Cuts and Privatization (5/2/2013)

OPEN LETTER: Formal Complaints Lodged Against LHIN: Request for Disclosure Launched in Ottawa Hospital Cuts and Privatization Scheme (3/11/2013)

RELEASE: Myth Buster: OHC Challenges Health Minister’s Claims – Hospital cuts and privatization are not offset by home care (3/5/2013)

RELEASE: Ontario-Wide Tour to Visit 15 Communities Warning of Ontario Budget Cutbacks to Health Care (5/7/2012)

RELEASE: The Drummond Commission & Public Service Cuts: Public Interest Groups Deeply Concerned About Undemocratic Process (1/27/2012)

RELEASE: OHC Calls on McGuinty Government to Stop NHS Privatization Plan in Welland (4/28/2011)

RELEASE: OHC Calls For Coroner’s Inquest in the Death of Reilly Anzovino (1/25/2010)

RELEASE: Budget Will Not Help Save Hospitals from Closures, Cuts (3/26/2009)

EVENTS: Thousands Join Rally at Ontario Legislature to Stop Hospital Cuts (3/26/2009)

Public Forum: Health care shouldn’t be a race. (4/2/2007)

Save Public Medicare! Information (2/28/2006)

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