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

Posted: September 25, 2020

This page is continually updated.

On this page you can find a roundup of Ontario Health Coalition Hospitals:

1. Reports & Analyses
2. Backgrounders, Facts Sheets & Briefing Notes
3. Media Releases

Reports/Analyses

• RELEASE & REPORT: Robbing the public to build the private: The Ford government’s hospital privatization scheme
• RELEASE & REPORT: Health Coalition Exposes Significantly Higher Costs & Irregularities in Kingston Hospital Cataract Surgery Privatization: New Report
• RELEASE & REPORT: Number of Ontario hospital emergency closures soars to new record: Health Coalition demands Ford government finally take action
• REPORT & RELEASE: Report advises Ontario government to scrap private surgeries and invest in public hospitals
• ANALYSIS: Ontario Health Coalition Analysis of Bill 60, Your Health Act
• REPORT & RELEASE: Ontario Hospital Crisis Province-Wide and By Community
• 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
• LETTER & EVENTS: Call for Human Rights Inquiry Into Systemic Discrimination Against the Elderly in Ontario Hospitals and Long-Term Care
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Large Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Summary & Report: Over Two Thousand Dead in Long-Term Care as We Approach End of Wave 2 – Data updated to March 3
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Large Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Summary & Report: Second Wave in Long-Term Care Infections & Deaths have Surpassed First Wave – Data updated to February 9

Backgrounders/Fact Sheets/Briefing Notes

• LEAFLET: Ontario Health Coalition Leaflet & petition for Labour Day events and market tables
• ANALYSIS & FACT CHECKER: Quick Facts & Analysis + Fact Checker: Ford government’s health care funding
• BRIEFING NOTE: Health care funding briefing note: putting the fall economic statement in context
• BRIEFING NOTE: Sampling of Recent Ontario Hospital Service Closures
• 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
• 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
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Ford Government’s Claims Re. Forcing Elderly Patients into Long-Term Care in Contravention of their Right to Consent
• 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”
• 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
• FACT SHEET: The Privatization of Ontario’s Public Hospital Services

Media Releases

• OPEN LETTER & RELEASE: Health Coalition Issues Open Letter to Health Minister to Stop Transfer of Lab Testing by Quest/Lifelabs to U.S.
• RELEASE & LETTER: In response to private lab closure in Sudbury, experts call on the province to transfer the service back to local public hospitals
• RELEASE: Health Care Advocates Slam Ford Government for Privatizing Surgeries While Pushing Public Hospitals into Deficit
• RELEASE: Health care in crisis in northwestern Ontario: communities demand urgent solutions from Ford government
• EVENT & RELEASE: Public Hearings on Protecting & Improving Local Hospitals: Community members invited to give input
• RELEASE: Community and union leaders announce legal action, demand Ford declare a moratorium to save the Durham hospital
• RELEASE & REPORT: Robbing the public to build the private: The Ford government’s hospital privatization scheme
• RELEASE & REPORT: Health Coalition Exposes Significantly Higher Costs & Irregularities in Kingston Hospital Cataract Surgery Privatization: New Report
• RELEASE & REPORT: Number of Ontario hospital emergency closures soars to new record: Health Coalition demands Ford government finally take action
• 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