HOME CARE EASY ACCESS LIST: Major Home Care Reports, Analyses, Backgrounders, Fact Sheets, Briefing Notes & Media Releases
Posted: September 25, 2020
On this page you can find a roundup of Ontario Health Coalition Home Care:
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 October 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New Home Care Bill “Irredeemable” and Should Not Be Pushed Through During a Pandemic: Coalition Calls for it to be Withdrawn June 15, 2020
- RELEASE & REPORT: The Elephant at the Health Ministers’ Meetings: How Will Provinces Cope with $31 Billion Cut October 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 September 23, 2015
- FULL REPORT: Ontario Home Care in Disarray, Unable to Keep Up: Heath Coalition Proposes Reform Based on Principles of Public Medicare March 10, 2015
- REPORT: Still Waiting: An Assessment of Ontario’s Home Care System After Two Decades of Restructuring April 4, 2011
- REPORT: Home Care: Change We Need – Report on the Ontario Health Coalition’s Home Care Hearings November 17, 2008
- REPORT: Market Competition in Ontario’s Homecare: Lessons and Consequences March 31, 2005
- REPORT: “Dip and Skip” November 1, 2003
- REPORT: “I Really Can’t Afford to Stay in Home Care” August 1, 2003
- REPORT: Secrets in the House November 1, 2001
- REPORT: Tipping The Balance: Healthcare Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario July 1, 2001
- REPORT: Long Term Care – In Limbo or Worse? March 1, 2001
Backgrounders/Fact Sheets/Briefing Notes
- FACT SHEET: Home Care Privatization March 8, 2022
- JUST THE FACTS: Facts About Health Care, Cuts & Privatization March 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 March 24, 2021
- RELEASE & BACKGROUNDER: Ford Government’s Home Care Changes Dismantle Public Control, Risk Privatization March 5, 2020
- 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 September 23, 2015
- BRIEFING NOTE: The loss of 100 years of non-profit home nursing in Hamilton January 23, 2008
- FACT SHEET: Homecare: A Closer Look November 1, 2004
- FACT SHEET: Key Concerns, Bill 130 and Liberal Promises November 1, 2003
- BACKGROUNDER: “The Pulse”: The End of 100 Years of Non-Profit Home Nursing? June 1, 2003
- FACT SHEET: Women and Medicare: Health Restructuring and Women’s Access to Medicare February 1, 2003
- FACT SHEET: Women and Medicare: Women as Workers in the Healthcare System February 1, 2003
- BACKGROUNDER: “The Pulse”: Conservatives Yank Community Control of Homecare January 1, 2002
- FACT SHEET: Homecare Fact Sheet #2 May 1, 1999
- FACT SHEET: Homecare Fact Sheet #1 January 1, 1999
Media Releases
- 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: 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 & 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: 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
- 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 June 22, 2020
- RELEASE: “It is a New Low” Behaviour of Government MPPs in Home Care Legislation Public Hearings Unprecedented and Unacceptable: Health Coalition June 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 June 15, 2020
- UPDATE: Mounting Health Care Cuts November 20, 2019
- UPDATE: Mounting Health Care Cuts August 3, 2019
- RELEASE: Ford Governments Health Cuts Negatively Impact Patient Care: Coalition Calls Out Ford Government for “Dissembling” and Lack of Public Accountability June 19, 2019
- RELEASE: More than 10,000 Protest to tell Ford Government to stop health privatization, cuts May 1, 2019
- RELEASE: Unprecedented Health Action Day Calls on Doug Ford to Halt Health Privatization Plans April 23, 2019
- VIDEO: Doug Ford and Health Minister Christine Elliott obfuscate questions on health privatization March 27, 2019
- RELEASE & ANALYSIS: Health Care Omnibus Bill Sets Up Ontario for Health System Mega-Mergers & Privatization: Worse than the Leaked Draft, Health Coalition Warns February 27, 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 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: Deeply concerned about Doug Ford’s planned revenue cuts, comparison of parties’ commitments on key health care issues April 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 November 6, 2017
- RELEASE & REPORT: The Elephant at the Health Ministers’ Meetings: How Will Provinces Cope with $31 Billion Cut October 18, 2017
- RELEASE: Ontario Budget Health Care Investments Do Not Meet Expectations: Hospital Funding Inadequate to Stop Cuts & Meet Community’s Needs April 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 September 23, 2015
- RELEASE: Homecare Roadmap has potential, but beware of some dangerous pitfalls: Health Coalition May 13, 2015
- CALL-OUT: It’s Time to Take a Stand! Regional Days of Action to Stop Hospital Cuts and Hospital /Home Care Privatization May 11, 2015
- RELEASE: Hundreds Rally to Stop Health Care Cuts and Privatization in First Day of Action — Protests Planned Across Ontario April 17, 2015
- ADVISORY: Leaders of Organizations Representing More than Half-A-Million Ontarians Join Forces to Stop the Hospital Cuts & Hospital/Home Care Privatization April 15, 2015
- RELEASE: Home Care Panel Report Missing Core Principles of Public Medicare: Coalition Warns of “Deep Privatization” March 12, 2015
- RELEASE: Home care cuts undermining Medicare November 25, 2014
- OPEN LETTER: to the Health Minister on Home Care User & Drug Fees July 17, 2014
- RELEASE: Myth Buster: OHC Challenges Health Minister’s Claims – Hospital cuts and privatization are not offset by home care March 5, 2013
- RELEASE: Ontario Government Seniors’ Strategy Attacks Universality for Seniors’ Health Care; Thin on Improvements to Access January 9, 2013
- RELEASE: Mike Harris: One More Reason to Create a Public Home Care System November 8, 2012
- RELEASE: Home Care Administrative Costs: Four Tiers of Administration Before Home Care Funding Reaches Front Lines September 26, 2011
- NEWSLETTER: “The Pulse” OHC Newsletter and Action Alert May 1, 2011
- RELEASE: OHC Applauds Temporary Respite for Hamilton Non-Profit Homecare January 23, 2008
- RELEASE: OHC Homecare Policy Statement December 1, 2004
- RELEASE: Homecare Review Opportunity to Scrap Privatization October 10, 2004
- RELEASE: Citing Unacceptable Care Standards Group Launches Nursing Homes & Homecare Campaign April 26, 2004
- RELEASE: End ‘Dip and Skip’ Homecare Reform: OHC Slams Healthcare Censorship Bill November 22, 2001
- RELEASE: Government Guilty of Rank Hypocrisy Charges Health Watchdog: OHC Releases Report Assailing Tory Homecare Reform June 4, 2001
- RELEASE: Witmer’s Homecare Policies Forcing Privatization At All Costs, Even If It Costs More January 24, 2000
- RELEASE: Tory support private, for-profit sector increasing cost of health care January 10, 2000
- RELEASE: OHC Charges Abuse of Process With respect to New Homecare Regulation August 11, 1999
- RELEASE: OHC to Hold Media Conference Regarding New Homecare Regulations March 30, 1999
- RELEASE: Organizations Announce Public Release of Government’s Draft Policies for Homecare March 30, 1999