{"id":1705,"date":"2009-03-26T14:20:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2021-07-21T16:43:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T20:43:33","slug":"budget-will-not-help-save-hospitals-from-closures-cuts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/budget-will-not-help-save-hospitals-from-closures-cuts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"<FONT COLOR=\"#E00000\">RELEASE: <\/FONT> Budget Will Not Help Save Hospitals from Closures, Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(March 26, 2009)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis budget does not provide even what is needed to maintain existing services, or save our local hospitals from major cuts,\u201d noted Dora Jeffries, coalition co chair. \u201cIn hard economic times hospital closures, cuts to services and lay offs are the worst possible option. In many communities, the local hospital is vital to economic development. McGuinty is risking important hospital capacity for the long term by underfunding the hospital system.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MEDIA-RELEASE-March-26-20091.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for Media Release (March 26, 2009)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(March 26, 2009) \u201cThis budget does not provide even what is needed to maintain existing services, or save our local hospitals from major cuts,\u201d noted Dora Jeffries, coalition co chair. \u201cIn hard economic times hospital closures, cuts to services and lay offs are the worst possible option. In many communities, the local hospital is vital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuts-restructuring","category-cutsrestructuring-media-releases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RELEASE:  Budget Will Not Help Save Hospitals from Closures, Cuts - Ontario Health Coalition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(March 26, 2009) \u201cThis budget does not provide even what is needed to maintain existing services, or save our local hospitals from major cuts,\u201d noted Dora\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/budget-will-not-help-save-hospitals-from-closures-cuts-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RELEASE:  Budget Will Not Help Save Hospitals from Closures, Cuts - 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