LONG-TERM CARE/CHRONIC CARE EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Long-Term Care/Chronic Care Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases

Posted: September 21, 2020

On this page you can find a roundup of Ontario Health Coalition Long-Term Care/Chronic Care:

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

Reports/Analyses

• UPDATE: Submission to Ministry of Long-Term Care Public Consultation on New License & Expansion for Southbridge Care Homes Orchard Villa (October 21, 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 (August 31, 2022)
• REPORT: Crisis Unabated: The Failure to Improve Dangerously Low Care Levels in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes (May 18, 2022)
• SUBMISSION: Submission to the Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly on Bill 37 (November 29, 2021)
• REPORT: Public Money, Private Profit: The Ford Government & the Privatization of the Next Generation of Ontario’s Long-Term Care (November 29, 2021)
• RELEASE & ANALYSIS: Health Coalition Quick Initial Analysis of the Ford Government’s New LTC Act (October 28, 2021)
• RELEASE: Coalition Responds to Long-Term Care Minister Rod Phillips’ Announcement Cutting Through the PR: No Commitment to Reinstate Annual Comprehensive Inspections (October 26, 2021)
• REPORT: Long-Term Care Survey Report Released by Kawartha Lakes Health Coalition, Northumberland Health Coalition, and the Peterborough Health Coalition (June 22, 2021)
• REPORT: Investing in Care, Not Profit: Recommendations to Transform Long-Term Care in Ontario (May 20, 2021)
• ALL REPORTS: Ontario Health Coalition’s Response to the Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission (April 29, 2021)
• REPORT: Briefing Report: Investigating Real Registered Nurse Staffing Levels in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes (April 7, 2021)
• RELEASE, BRIEFING NOTE & LEGAL OPINION: Advocates Representing More Than 1 Million Canadians Call For National Standards to Improve Quality, Accountability and Take Profit Out of Long-Term Care (March 22, 2021)
• LETTER & EVENTS: Call for Human Rights Inquiry Into Systemic Discrimination Against the Elderly in Ontario Hospitals and Long-Term Care (March 16, 2021)
• 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 (March 12, 2021)
• 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 (February 17, 2021)
• REPORT: Shocking Number of Long-Term Care Homes with Majority of Residents Infected – Data updated to January 19 (January 22, 2021)
• REPORT: Wave 2 Continues to Devastate Long-Term Care, Far Surpassing the 1st Wave – Data updated to January 19 (January 22, 2021)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Sharp escalation in large COVID-19 outbreaks in health care settings – Data updated to January 8 (January 11, 2021)
• REPORT: COVID-19 Second Wave Survey of Staff in Long-Term Care Homes with Large Outbreaks (December 18, 2020)
• REPORT: A Call to Conscience: The COVID-19 Crisis in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes, What is Needed & the Government’s Response (December 17, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: Sharp escalation in large COVID-19 outbreaks in health care settings – Data updated to December 1 (December 3, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking the Spread of COVID-19: COVID Numbers in Health Care Outbreaks Escalating Dramatically – Data Updated to November 17 (November 19, 2020)
• INTEGRITY COMPLAINT: Health Coalition Requests Integrity Commissioner Investigate Political Donations & High-Level Personnel Links Between For-Profit LTC Industry and Ford Government Prior to Passage of Legal Liability Bil (November 16, 2020)
• REPORT & RELEASE: Ontario Is Experiencing Exponential Growth of COVID-19 Cases In Long-Term Care – OHC’s Roundup of Most Recent Case Numbers (November 10, 2020)
• SUBMISSION: Submission to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy on Bill 218 (November 4, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings – Data Updated to October 28 (November 3, 2020)
• RELEASE & ANALYSIS: Health Coalition Calls for Government to Flow Urgently Needed Money to Hospitals and Long-Term Care; Staffing Announcements Far Less Than Other Provinces (October 2, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Rate of Increase in COVID-19 among Staff, Residents, and Patients in Ontario’s Health Care Settings More Than Doubled: Coalition Fears Second Wave in Long-Term Care (September 23, 2020)
• FACT SHEET: Fact Sheet on Revera Inc. For-Profit Long-Term Care & Retirement Home Chain Owner (September 16, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Ford Government Must Be Transparent About COVID-19 Outbreaks, Improve Public Access to Information: Health Coalition Releases Updated Reports on Outbreaks in Health & Non-Health Sectors (September 9, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings – Data Updated to July 13 (July 23, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: 95% of Ontario Long-Term Care Staff Report Staffing Shortages Leaving Basic Care Needs Unmet: Health Coalition Releases Staffing Survey Calling for Ford Government to Take Action (July 22, 2020)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BACKGROUNDER: “There are not enough staff for existing beds & why should more money go to profit? We need care, urgently.” Health Coalition Responds to Ford Government’s Announcement of Enriched Capital Funding for LTC Homes (July 16, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Most Recent Tracking Report Shows that Ministry of Long-Term Care & Public Health Ontario Have Discontinued Public Reporting of Vital COVID-19 Data, Outbreaks in Health Settings Down but Death Rate Continues to Rise (June 23, 2020)
• REPORT: Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings – Data Updated to June 2 (June 5, 2020)
• REPORT: New Report on COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Settings – Data Updated to May 19 (June 2, 2020)
• REPORT: COVID-19 outbreaks in health settings almost doubled, death toll up by 333.7% – Data updated to May 5 (May 12, 2020)
• RELEASE & ANALYSIS: COVID-19 Death Rates in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes Significantly Higher and Increasing in For-Profit Homes vs. Non-Profit and Publicly-Owned Homes: New Data Analysis (May 6, 2020)
• ANALYSIS & RESPONSE: New Directive and Guidelines for COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Homes Inadequate: Coalition Calls for Full Testing, Better Access to PPE, Respect for Human Rights in Care (April 9, 2020)
• REPORT: Caring in Crisis: Ontario’s Long-Term Care PSW Shortage (December 9, 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 (April 1, 2019)
• REPORT Situation Critical: Planning, Access, Levels of Care and Violence in Ontario’s Long-Term Care (January 24, 2019)
• RELEASE & REPORT: The Elephant at the Health Ministers’ Meetings: How Will Provinces Cope with $31 Billion Cut (October 18, 2017)
• REPORT: Protecting the Public Interest in Toronto’s Long-Term Care Homes: A Review of the Evidence on Privatization (March 6, 2012)
• BRIEFING NOTE & ANALYSIS:Briefing Note and Analysis of Shirlee Sharkey Report (June 23, 2008)
• REPORT: Violence, Insufficient Care, and Downloading of Heavy Care Patients (May 8, 2008)
• ANALYSIS & SUBMISSION: Review of Staffing and Care Standards for Long-Term Care Homes (January 31, 2008)
• SUBMISSION: Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy Regarding Bill 140: An Act Respecting Long-Term Care Homes (January 16, 2007)
• ANALYSIS & SUMMARY: Bill 140 – Ontario’s New Long Term Care Act Preliminary Summary & Comments (November 25, 2006)
• REPORT: Ownership Matters: Lessons from Ontario’s Long Term Care Facilities (May 27, 2002)
• REPORT: from Long Term Care Forums (March 1, 2001)

Backgrounders/Fact Sheets/Briefing Notes

• BRIEFING NOTES, VIDEO: Hospital discharges, the rights of patients & their substitute decision-makers (December 20, 2024)
• BRIEFING NOTE & QUESTIONS FOR CANDIDATES: Municipal Election Key Health Care Issues (September 27, 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 (September 15, 2022)
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Ford Government’s Claims Re. Forcing Elderly Patients into Long-Term Care in Contravention of their Right to Consent (August 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” (August 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 (August 19, 2022)
• FACT SHEET: Why Stop the Privatization of Long-Term Care (March 8, 2022)
• JUST THE FACTS: Facts About Health Care, Cuts & Privatization (March 3, 2022)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Ontario Health Coalition Demands Answers from Ford Government on Long-Term Care & Hospital Crisis (January 13, 2022)
• BRIEFING NOTE: The Horrifying Truth About For-Profit Long-Term Care Homes (December 1, 2021)
• LEGAL OPINION: Proposal from Southbridge Care Homes Inc. re Orchard Villa in Pickering, Ontario (September 1, 2021)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: A Critically Important Warning in New Financial Accountability Office Report: Ford Government’s Long-Term Care Plan is a House of Cards (May 27, 2021)
• RELEASE, SUMMARY & ANALYSIS: Ontario Health Coalition Summary & Analysis of Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission Final Report (May 5, 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 (March 24, 2021)
• RELEASE, BRIEFING NOTE & LEGAL OPINION: Advocates Representing More Than 1 Million Canadians Call For National Standards to Improve Quality, Accountability and Take Profit Out of Long-Term Care (March 22, 2021)
• RESOURCES: Briefing for Long-Term Care Families: Access for Visitors and Essential Caregivers (January 14, 2021)
• FACT SHEET: Fact Sheet on Revera Inc. For-Profit Long-Term Care & Retirement Home Chain Owner (September 16, 2020)
• BRIEFING NOTE: COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Litigation & Legal Actions (September 16, 2020)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Fact Check & Briefing Note on Inspections in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes (May 29, 2020)
• BRIEFING NOTE: Key Issues in Long-Term Care + Public Inquiry Recommendations (July 31, 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 (April 1, 2019)
• BRIEFING NOTE & ANALYSIS:Briefing Note and Analysis of Shirlee Sharkey Report (June 23, 2008)
• BACKGROUNDER: Backgrounder on Long Term Care Facilities Minimum Care Standards (September 9, 2007)
• RELEASE: Coalition Decries McGuinty’s Failure to Fulfill Promise to Improve Care Levels in Nursing Homes (September 9, 2007)
• BRIEFING NOTES: Minimum Care Standards in Long Term Care Facilities Briefing Notes (January 31, 2007)
• ANALYSIS & SUBMISSION: Letter to Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Regarding Minimum Care Standards (January 18, 2007)
• BRIEFING NOTE: Why Protect Public and Not For Profit Long Term Care Facilities? (January 16, 2007)
• ANALYSIS & SUMMARY: Bill 140 – Ontario’s New Long Term Care Act Preliminary Summary & Comments (November 25, 2006)
• BACKGROUNDER: Long Term Care Facilities (April 1, 2004)
• FACT SHEET: Long Term Care? Community Care? Home Care? Why Should We Care? (May 1, 2002)
• RELEASE/BACKGROUNDER: Province’s Long Term Care PR Announcements Are an Insult to Seniors (September 14, 2001)
• OHC Guide to the Long Term Care Act (March 1, 2001)
• FACT SHEET: The Emerging Crisis in Chronic Care (May 1, 2000)
• FACT SHEET: Hospital Funding (January 1, 2000)
• FACT SHEET: Patient Classification and Funding in Chronic Care (January 1, 2000)
• FACT SHEET: Chronic Care (May 1, 1999)
• FACT SHEET: General Long Term Care (May 1, 1999)
• FACT SHEET: Long Term Care Facilities (May 1, 1999)
• FACT SHEET: Chronic Care Policy Issues (January 1, 1999)

Media Releases

• RELEASE: Health Coalition shocked and disappointed with court rulings in Bill 7 Charter Challenge and Orchard Villa case; vows to continue the fight to protect the rights of the elderly (March 13, 2025)
• Ontario court to hear challenge to government’s long-term care bill next week (September 21, 2024)
• ‘Abominable’: Untrained aides should not count toward LTC direct care targets, advocates say (September 17, 2024)
• RELEASE: Families & Advocates Announce Legal Action as Ford Government Grants New Long-Term Care Licenses to Corporations with Hideous Records (February 13, 2024)
• 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 (April 13, 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” (November 21, 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 (October 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 (September 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 (August 31, 2022)
• FACT CHECKER & RELEASE: Ford Government’s Claims Re. Forcing Elderly Patients into Long-Term Care in Contravention of their Right to Consent (August 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” (August 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 (August 19, 2022)
• RELEASE: Ontario Election Health Care Primer: Health Coalition Brings Warning and Outlines Key Issues as the Writ Drops (May 5, 2022)
• RELEASE: Health Care System Besieged by COVID-19: Health Coalition demands Ford answer for lack of action (January 20, 2022)
• RELEASE: Emergency Measures Needed to Address the Health Care Staffing Crisis (January 14, 2022)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: Ontario Health Coalition Demands Answers from Ford Government on Long-Term Care & Hospital Crisis (January 13, 2022)
• RELEASE: Ford government’s response on long-term care is a travesty: “New” LTC bill to be pushed through imminently (December 6, 2021)
• RELEASE: Ford Government is Awarding Thousands of Long-Term Care Beds to For-Profit Chains with Ghastly Records of Death and Suffering: New Coalition Report (November 29, 2021)
• RELEASE & ANALYSIS: Health Coalition Quick Initial Analysis of the Ford Government’s New LTC Act (October 28, 2021)
• RELEASE: Coalition Responds to Long-Term Care Minister Rod Phillips’ Announcement Cutting Through the PR: No Commitment to Reinstate Annual Comprehensive Inspections (October 26, 2021)
• EVENT: Let’s Make it HUGE: Cross-Province on October 4, 12 pm RISE UP for LTC! (September 26, 2021)
• RELEASE: “Unreasonable and Contrary to Law”: Legal Opinion on New 30-Year License & Expansion at For-Profit LTC Orchard Villa Coalition & Families Call on Ford Government to Respond (September 1, 2021)
• RELEASE: Provincial Health Coalitions Put Federal Parties on Notice: Canadians Demand Real Action to Fix Long-Term Care (August 19, 2021)
• RELEASE & BRIEFING NOTE: A Critically Important Warning in New Financial Accountability Office Report: Ford Government’s Long-Term Care Plan is a House of Cards (May 27, 2021)
• RELEASE: ‘Total Disrespect’: LTC Residents, Families & Staff Incensed that Premier Ford Dodged Question Period Today While Hundreds Waited for Commitments to Improve Care (May 18, 2021)
• RELEASE: Ontario Auditor General Report on COVID-19 in Ontario’s LTC Homes Supports Longstanding Calls for Real Change (April 28, 2021)
• RELEASE: OHC Raises Alarm About Ford Government’s New Emergency Order Transferring Hospital ALC Patients Without Consent into LTC and Retirement Homes (April 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 (March 24, 2021)
• RELEASE, BRIEFING NOTE & LEGAL OPINION: Advocates Representing More Than 1 Million Canadians Call For National Standards to Improve Quality, Accountability and Take Profit Out of Long-Term Care (March 22, 2021)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Almost 4,000 Dead in Long-Term Care as We Approach End of Wave 2: Wave 2 Deaths Exceed Wave I (March 12, 2021)
• RELEASE: OHC Responds to Ford Government’s PSW Announcement with Incredulity: 373 PSWs for Long-Term Care Nowhere Near What is Needed (February 22, 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 (February 17, 2021)
• RELEASE: Ontario Health Coalition Releases Tracking of UK Variant COVID-19 As COVID-19 U.K. Variant Spreads Ford Government Can Not Fail Us Again: Stronger Enforced Public Health Measures Are Missing (February 10, 2021)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition Calls on Ford Government to Stop For-Profit Long-Term Care Chain Companies from Banning Essential Caregivers: COVID-19 (February 8, 2021)
• RELEASE: Health Coalitions call for Federal Leadership to Defend Public Health Care (January 25, 2021)
• RELEASE: Ontario Long-Term Care COVID-19 Crisis: 100 Organizations Send Clear Message to Premier Ford, This is an Emergency, We Need Action Now (January 22, 2021)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Outbreaks in Health Care Settings Threaten to Topple Devastating Records Set in the First Wave (January 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 (January 7, 2021)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition Disappointed with Ford Government’s Staffing Report Announcement: No Recruitment Drive Announced, Timelines for Staffing Improvements Mean Slight Improvements Year After Next (December 17, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: A Call to Conscience: New Report on the COVID-19 Crisis in Long-Term Care in Wave 2 Reveals Huge Gaps in Ford Government’s Response (December 17, 2020)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition Applauds Excellent Recommendations Released by Long-Term Care Commission Today: Calls on Ford Government to Implement Them Immediately (December 4, 2020)
• 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 (December 3, 2020)
• RELEASE: Almost Four Dozen People Who Applied to Testify Before the Ontario Legislature’s Standing Committee on Bill 218 Limiting Legal Liability for COVID-19 Harms for Long-Term Care Homes and Others, Cut Out of the Hearings Today (November 4, 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 (November 4, 2020)
• RELEASE: Ford’s 4-hour long-term care announcement too late: Need commitment to deal with staffing crisis now (November 2, 2020)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition Supports Interim Recommendations from Long-Term Care Commission: Calls on Ford Government to Implement Them Immediately (October 23, 2020)
• RELEASE: Ford Government’s New Legislation Will Make It Significantly Harder to Hold For-Profit Long-term Care Homes Liable for COVID-19 Harms (October 21, 2020)
• RELEASE & EVENT ROUNDUP: Cross-Province Protest Decries Ford’s Inadequate Response to Long-Term Care Crisis (October 8, 2020)
• RELEASE: Throne Speech: Premiers Should Not Play Partisan Politics with Health Care; Concrete Commitments Needed From Provincial & Federal Governments (September 29, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Updated Tracking Reports Shows New 30 Outbreaks & Increase in Deaths in Health & Congregate Care Settings; New Outbreaks in Agriculture, Retail, Shelters and other Non-Health Care Industries (July 23, 2020)
• RELEASE & EVENTS: Actions Across Ontario to Tell Premier Ford that the priority of Ontarians is to fix the long-term care crisis, not to privatize home care (June 30, 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 (June 30, 2020)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition Plans Protests Across Ontario As Ford Government Pushes Through New Laws to Privatize Home & Community Care, Stifle Class Action Suits, In Midst of Pandemic & Fails to Take Action on Emergency Staffing Crisis in Long-Term Care (June 22, 2020)
• RELEASE & REPORT: Death Toll Among Patients, Residents and Staff in Health Care Settings up 18.4% in 2 weeks: OHC Tracking Numbers Still Growing But More Slowly (June 5, 2020)
• RELEASE: Military Report on Conditions in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes: “Beyond Frustrated” Health Coalition Calls on Ford Government to Implement Repeated Recommendations to Improve Access to PPE, Workplace Safety and Infection Control (May 26, 2020)
• RELEASE: Inquiry into Long-Term Care & COVID-19 Cannot Preclude Immediate Actions that are Needed, Must be Independent and Transparent: Health Coalition (May 19, 2020)
• REPORT: COVID-19 outbreaks in health settings almost doubled, death toll up by 333.7% – Data updated to May 5 (May 12, 2020)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 numbers still escalating in a “devastating” way in Ontario’s long-term care homes: Health Coalition calls a Day of Action to press Ford government for more concrete measures to stop the spread and stabilize the sector (April 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 (April 23, 2020)
• RELEASE: 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)
• RELEASE: COVID-19 Roundup: Health Workers/LTC Residents Infected, Government Supports & Relief Measures (March 24, 2020)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition & Broad Array of Groups Launch Campaign to Build Mass “Stadium-filling” Event to Save Local Health Care Services (October 10, 2019)
• RELEASE: Ford Government Cuts to Long-Term Care Funding Risk Already Over-Stressed Care Levels    (July 10, 2019)
• RELEASE: Budget Health Care Briefing: What is being Cut, Myth Buster, What is Coming (April 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 (April 1, 2019)
• RELEASE: Warning that Leaked Health Care Omnibus Bill Would Create Health Care Chaos: Longstanding Leaders of Organizations Representing Patients, Care Workers, Doctors (February 11, 2019)
• RELEASE: Ontario Health Coalition releases new report SITUATION CRITICAL – HOMICIDE AND VIOLENCE IN ONTARIO’S LONG-TERM CARE HOMES (January 19, 2019)
• RELEASE: Ontario Election 2018 Health Care Resources (June 4, 2018)
• RELEASE: $22 billion in cuts to funding for public services planned by Mr. Ford, worse than Harris, we are “extremely worried” (June 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 (May 16, 2018)
• RELEASE: Deeply concerned about Doug Ford’s planned revenue cuts, comparison of parties’ commitments on key health care issues (April 13, 2018)
• RELEASE & REPORT: The Elephant at the Health Ministers’ Meetings: How Will Provinces Cope with $31 Billion Cut (October 18, 2017)
• RELEASE: Health Coalition Responds to Wettlaufer Inquiry Announcement (August 1, 2017)
• RELEASE: Inquiry Should Look into All Recent Homicides, Systemic Issues in Long-Term Care: Health Coalition (June 28, 2017)
• RELEASE: Health Care Advocates Dismayed with Ottawa’s Divide and Conquer Tactics: Hopes for a Canadian Health Accord Dashed as Provinces Signs Deal (March 10, 2017)
• RELEASE: Giant Rocking Chair Tour: “Rock-in” for Improved Long-Term Care (May 21, 2014)
• RELEASE: McGuinty Reneging on Years of Progress in Long-Term Care Homes’ Inspections & Enforcement: Betrays Longstanding Promises to Ontario Seniors (June 13, 2012)
• RELEASE: Coalition Decries McGuinty’s Failure to Fulfill Promise to Improve Care Levels in Nursing Homes (September 9, 2007)
• Neglect shouldn’t be an option. (July 3, 2007)
• RELEASE: “Strong First Step” (May 14, 2004)
• RELEASE: Nursing Homes & Homecare Campaign (April 26, 2004)
• RELEASE: Seniors are Suffering (May 29, 2001)
• RELEASE: Ontario Health Coalition warns Ontarians to get ready for new Long Term Care legislation (December 7, 1999)
• RELEASE: OHC Calls for Full Public Consultation and Release of Crucial Long Term Care document (March 3, 1999)