HOSPITALS EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Hospital Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases

RELEASE & REPORT: Ford must answer for poor hospital privatization track record over last five years: New report tracks town-by-town how the privatization scheme has created new inequalities, delays, higher costs and wasted local public hospitals’ resources (9/15/2026)

OPEN LETTER & RELEASE: Health Coalition Issues Open Letter to Health Minister to Stop Transfer of Lab Testing by Quest/Lifelabs to U.S. (6/15/2026)

RELEASE & LETTER: In response to private lab closure in Sudbury, experts call on the province to transfer the service back to local public hospitals (2/3/2026)

RELEASE: Health Care Advocates Slam Ford Government for Privatizing Surgeries While Pushing Public Hospitals into Deficit (12/11/2025)

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

EVENT & RELEASE: Public Hearings on Protecting & Improving Local Hospitals: Community members invited to give input (6/3/2024)

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

RELEASE & REPORT: Robbing the public to build the private: The Ford government’s hospital privatization scheme (2/21/2024)

RELEASE & REPORT: Health Coalition Exposes Significantly Higher Costs & Irregularities in Kingston Hospital Cataract Surgery Privatization: New Report (2/15/2024)

RELEASE & REPORT: Number of Ontario hospital emergency closures soars to new record: Health Coalition demands Ford government finally take action (12/5/2023)

RELEASE: 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 (11/20/2023)

REPORT & RELEASE: Report advises Ontario government to scrap private surgeries and invest in public hospitals (11/2/2023)

RELEASE: Major step forward for elderly patients whose Charter rights are violated by Ford government’s law coercing elderly patients into long-term care homes against their will: Patient advocates file court challenge (4/13/2023)

RELEASE: Calling Ford’s plans to privatize Ontario’s public hospital surgeries a “fatal threat” and a “terrible blow” to our public hospitals, health advocates vow major fightback (1/16/2023)

RELEASE & LEGAL OPINION: Ontario Health Coalition & Advocacy Centre for the Elderly will go to court to challenge Ford government’s new law forcing elderly into long-term care homes against their choice: “an egregious violation of their Charter rights” (11/21/2022)

RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: The Ford government lied to the public re. their privatization of public hospital services: Health Coalition demands Ford stop their privatization of our hospitals, kicks off major campaign to save our local public hospitals (10/26/2022)

REPORT & RELEASE: Ontario Hospital Crisis Province-Wide and By Community (10/24/2022)

RELEASE: New report on the spread of COVID, LTC outbreaks, hospitalizations & deaths raises red flags despite the Ford government’s suppression of COVID Data (10/21/2022)

FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: 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 (9/15/2022)

LETTER & RELEASE: “Rife with discrimination against the elderly,” Bill 7 prompts advocates to escalate call for Human Rights Commission investigation into systemic ageism in Ontario health policy (8/31/2022)

FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Ford Government’s Claims Re. Forcing Elderly Patients into Long-Term Care in Contravention of their Right to Consent (8/25/2022)

RELEASE: 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” (8/19/2022)

FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: 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 (8/19/2022)

RELEASE: Health Care System Besieged by COVID-19: Health Coalition demands Ford answer for lack of action (1/20/2022)

RELEASE: Emergency Measures Needed to Address the Health Care Staffing Crisis (1/14/2022)

RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Ontario Health Coalition Demands Answers from Ford Government on Long-Term Care & Hospital Crisis (1/13/2022)

RELEASE: OHC Raises Alarm About Ford Government’s New Emergency Order Transferring Hospital ALC Patients Without Consent into LTC and Retirement Homes (4/28/2021)

RELEASE: Ontario Budget: Health Coalition is Watching for Sufficient Health Funding, Strings Attached in For-Profit LTC & A Stop to the Ford Government’s Privatization of Health Care (3/24/2021)

RELEASE & REPORT: Almost 4,000 Dead in Long-Term Care as We Approach End of Wave 2: Wave 2 Deaths Exceed Wave I (3/12/2021)

RELEASE: COVID-19 Health Care Outbreaks are Still Fatally High: Long-Term Care Deaths Surpass Wave I & COVID-19 Infections 50% More than Wave I (2/17/2021)

RELEASE: COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Threaten to Topple Devastating Records Set in the First Wave (1/11/2021)

RELEASE: Emergency: COVID-19 Crisis Situation In Ontario Requires Stronger Measures AND Stronger Supports for People Impacted, Today is Deadliest Day of Pandemic So Far (1/7/2021)

RELEASE: By No Measure are they Under Control: Large Outbreaks of COVID-19 in Long-Term Care, Hospitals, Retirement Homes Escalating Sharply- New Tracking Report (12/3/2020)

RELEASE: 181 COVID-19 outbreaks in health care settings leaving 89 residents dead & more than 1,800 staff & patients infected in 6-wks, numbers way up across the board, warns Ontario Health Coalition (11/4/2020)

RELEASE & OPEN LETTER: Ford Government Given Failing Marks in Response to Recommendations on Long-Term Care COVID-19 Response in Joint Open Letter from more than 200 Organizations Representing Almost 2 Million Ontarians (6/30/2020)

RELEASE: COVID-19 Outbreaks Have Grown Exponentially In Health Care Settings: Health Coalition tracking report finds 3,783 people infected and 435 patients/residents/staff deceased (4/23/2020)

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: COVID-19 Roundup: Health Workers/LTC Residents Infected, Government Supports & Relief Measures (3/24/2020)

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)

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

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)

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: 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)

RELEASE: Better but not cured: Health Coalition responds to Wynne pre-election funding announcement (3/22/2018)

RELEASE: Health Minister’s hospital bed announcement welcome but it is only a temporary band aid, more is needed: Health Coalition (2/2/2018)

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)

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

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)

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 & REPORT: CODE RED: One in Four Ontario Hospitals Facing Significant Cuts or Closure – Coalition Warns that Hospital Cuts Have Reached Crisis Levels (4/2/2015)

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

RELEASE: Ontario’s Wynne Government Plans to Bring In Private Clinics: Threatens Non-Profit Community Hospital Care (7/17/2014)

RELEASE: “OHC Austerity Index Part II” details how Hospital Cuts and Privatization Reach New Levels: Coalition Announces “S.O.S.” – Save Our Services – Day of Action (1/25/2013)

RELEASE: Health Minister’s Veiled Threat Likened to Bullying: Health Coalition Livid over Health Minister’s Tactics (11/9/2012)

RELEASE: Response to Niagara Hospital Consolidation Proposal (5/3/2012)

RELEASE: McGuinty Government Fails to Take Hospital Secrecy off the Table – Amendment to Budget Bill Gives Hospitals Wide Berth to Hide Information (4/1/2011)

REPORT: Toward Equality and Access: Realigning Ontario’s Approach to Small and Rural Hospitals to Serve Public Values (5/17/2010)

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

RELEASE: Health Coalition Announces Major Campaign in Response to Hospital Supervisor’s Refusal to Compromise (8/26/2008)

Up to 23 New Hospitals to Be Privatized Under Government’s 5-Year Infrastructure Plan: Coalition Launches Major Plebiscite to Keep Hospitals Public (5/25/2005)

Budget Announcement Outlines Wholesale Hospital Privatization: Health Coalition Outraged at Betrayal (5/11/2005)

RELEASE: Ontario Health Coalition Vows to Continue Legal Action to Keep Hospitals Public (10/1/2003)

RELEASE: Clement Plays with the Facts – Misrepresents Brampton Hospital Privatization (9/26/2003)

RELEASE: $1.3 billion in private hospital deals since kick-off of election outrageous: Ontario Health Coalition (9/26/2003)

RELEASE: For-Profit Hospitals & Clinics threaten the Future of Medicare (3/31/2003)

RELEASE: Coalition Urges Government to Stop the Cover-Up in Hospital Emergency Services (3/19/2001)

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