HOME CARE EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Home Care 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 Home Care:

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

Reports/Analyses

• 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 (10/2/2020)
• 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New Home Care Bill “Irredeemable” and Should Not Be Pushed Through During a Pandemic: Coalition Calls for it to be Withdrawn (6/15/2020)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, 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)
• RELEASE & REPORT: The Elephant at the Health Ministers’ Meetings: How Will Provinces Cope with $31 Billion Cut (10/18/2017)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BACKGROUNDER: Hundreds of Millions in Home Care Funding Going to Profit, Duplicate Administration and ‘Impossibly Complex and Bureaucratic’ Home Care System: Auditor’s CCAC Home Care Report (9/23/2015)
• FULL REPORT: Ontario Home Care in Disarray, Unable to Keep Up: Heath Coalition Proposes Reform Based on Principles of Public Medicare (3/10/2015)
• REPORT: Still Waiting: An Assessment of Ontario’s Home Care System After Two Decades of Restructuring (4/4/2011)
• REPORT: Home Care: Change We Need – Report on the Ontario Health Coalition’s Home Care Hearings (11/17/2008)
• REPORT: Market Competition in Ontario’s Homecare: Lessons and Consequences (3/31/2005)
• REPORT: “Dip and Skip” (11/1/2003)
• REPORT: “I Really Can’t Afford to Stay in Home Care” (8/1/2003)
• REPORT: Secrets in the House (11/1/2001)
• REPORT: Tipping The Balance: Healthcare Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario (7/1/2001)
• REPORT: Long Term Care – In Limbo or Worse? (3/1/2001)

Backgrounders/Fact Sheets/Briefing Notes

• BRIEFING NOTE, ANALYSIS & SUBMISSION: Ford government’s new law (Bill 135) to further privatize home care (11/11/2023)
• FACT SHEET: Home Care Privatization (3/8/2022)
• JUST THE FACTS: Facts About Health Care, Cuts & Privatization (3/3/2022)
• 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 & BACKGROUNDER: Ford Government’s Home Care Changes Dismantle Public Control, Risk Privatization (3/5/2020)
• 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)
• RELEASE, ANALYSIS & BACKGROUNDER: Hundreds of Millions in Home Care Funding Going to Profit, Duplicate Administration and ‘Impossibly Complex and Bureaucratic’ Home Care System: Auditor’s CCAC Home Care Report (9/23/2015)
• BRIEFING NOTE: The loss of 100 years of non-profit home nursing in Hamilton (1/23/2008)
• FACT SHEET: Homecare: A Closer Look (11/1/2004)
• FACT SHEET: Key Concerns, Bill 130 and Liberal Promises (11/1/2003)
• BACKGROUNDER: “The Pulse”: The End of 100 Years of Non-Profit Home Nursing? (6/1/2003)
• FACT SHEET: Women and Medicare: Health Restructuring and Women’s Access to Medicare (2/1/2003)
• FACT SHEET: Women and Medicare: Women as Workers in the Healthcare System (2/1/2003)
• BACKGROUNDER: “The Pulse”: Conservatives Yank Community Control of Homecare (1/1/2002)
• FACT SHEET: Homecare Fact Sheet #2 (5/1/1999)
• FACT SHEET: Homecare Fact Sheet #1 (1/1/1999)

Media Releases

• 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: 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 & 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 (6/30/2020)
• 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 (6/22/2020)
• EVENTS: Day of Protest Against the Ford Government Pushing Through Its Terrible New Home/Community Care Law While Failure to Act on the LTC Care/Staffing Crisis (6/22/2020)
• RELEASE: “It is a New Low” Behaviour of Government MPPs in Home Care Legislation Public Hearings Unprecedented and Unacceptable: Health Coalition (6/17/2020)
• 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)
• UPDATE: Mounting Health Care Cuts (11/20/2019)
• UPDATE: Mounting Health Care Cuts (8/3/2019)
• 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: More than 10,000 Protest to tell Ford Government to stop health privatization, cuts (5/1/2019)
• RELEASE: Unprecedented Health Action Day Calls on Doug Ford to Halt Health Privatization Plans (4/23/2019)
• 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: Deeply concerned about Doug Ford’s planned revenue cuts, comparison of parties’ commitments on key health care issues (4/13/2018)
• RELEASE: Public Home Care Would Benefit Ontarians Despite Claims of Vested Interests/For-Profit Home Care Companies: Health Coalition Calls for More Details (11/6/2017)
• 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, ANALYSIS & BACKGROUNDER: Hundreds of Millions in Home Care Funding Going to Profit, Duplicate Administration and ‘Impossibly Complex and Bureaucratic’ Home Care System: Auditor’s CCAC Home Care Report (9/23/2015)
• RELEASE: Homecare Roadmap has potential, but beware of some dangerous pitfalls: Health Coalition (5/13/2015)
• CALL-OUT: It’s Time to Take a Stand! Regional Days of Action to Stop Hospital Cuts and Hospital /Home Care Privatization (5/11/2015)
• 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)
• RELEASE: Home Care Panel Report Missing Core Principles of Public Medicare: Coalition Warns of “Deep Privatization” (3/12/2015)
• RELEASE: Home care cuts undermining Medicare (11/25/2014)
• OPEN LETTER: to the Health Minister on Home Care User & Drug Fees (7/17/2014)
• RELEASE: Myth Buster: OHC Challenges Health Minister’s Claims – Hospital cuts and privatization are not offset by home care (3/5/2013)
• RELEASE: Ontario Government Seniors’ Strategy Attacks Universality for Seniors’ Health Care; Thin on Improvements to Access (1/9/2013)
• RELEASE: Mike Harris: One More Reason to Create a Public Home Care System (11/8/2012)
• RELEASE: Home Care Administrative Costs: Four Tiers of Administration Before Home Care Funding Reaches Front Lines (9/26/2011)
• NEWSLETTER: “The Pulse” OHC Newsletter and Action Alert (5/1/2011)
• RELEASE: OHC Applauds Temporary Respite for Hamilton Non-Profit Homecare (1/23/2008)
• RELEASE: OHC Homecare Policy Statement (12/1/2004)
• RELEASE: Homecare Review Opportunity to Scrap Privatization (10/10/2004)
• RELEASE: Citing Unacceptable Care Standards Group Launches Nursing Homes & Homecare Campaign (4/26/2004)
• RELEASE: End ‘Dip and Skip’ Homecare Reform: OHC Slams Healthcare Censorship Bill (11/22/2001)
• RELEASE: Government Guilty of Rank Hypocrisy Charges Health Watchdog: OHC Releases Report Assailing Tory Homecare Reform (6/4/2001)
• RELEASE: Witmer’s Homecare Policies Forcing Privatization At All Costs, Even If It Costs More (1/24/2000)
• RELEASE: Tory support private, for-profit sector increasing cost of health care (1/10/2000)
• RELEASE: OHC Charges Abuse of Process With respect to New Homecare Regulation (8/11/1999)
• RELEASE: OHC to Hold Media Conference Regarding New Homecare Regulations (3/30/1999)
• RELEASE: Organizations Announce Public Release of Government’s Draft Policies for Homecare (3/30/1999)