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(January 13, 2023)<\/p>\n

By: Isaac Callan & Colin D’Mello, Global News<\/p>\n

As the\u00a0Ford government<\/a><\/span>\u00a0strategized ways to cut down on the\u00a0COVID-19<\/a><\/span>\u00a0surgical backlog, provincial health officials set aside a small pot of public funding for private hospitals and independent heath facilities, according to documents obtained by Global News.\"\"<\/p>\n

A\u00a0Ministry of Health<\/a><\/span>\u00a0presentation on the province\u2019s surgical and diagnostic recovery reveals that the Ford government planned to increase the role of two private hospitals as part journey back to pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n

The document said the two private hospitals \u2014 Don Mills Surgical Unit and Clearpoint Surgical Toronto \u2014 had been given $8 million over the past two years \u201cto achieve over 3,300 additional surgeries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another $5 million in public funds has been earmarked for 2,100 procedures at the private hospitals in the 2022-23 year, the slide said<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ministry is committed to continuing to leverage all available capacity to reduce wait times,\u201d the presentation stated.<\/p>\n

The funding for private hospitals, however, comes as the Ford government faces increased scrutiny over its dedication to a publicly funded health-care system. The minister of health indicated the province was considering \u201cinnovative\u201d solutions to deal with a stretched health care system.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be clear, Ontarians will always use their OHIP card to receive healthcare services across the province,\u201d a spokesperson for the ministry of health told Global News in a statement regarding the private hospital funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese facilities already, and will continue to, perform publicly (OHIP) funded procedures and will ensure patients have access to the healthcare they need and deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n

The spokesperson did not address a detailed list of questions, including the specifics of any agreements with for-profit health-care providers.<\/p>\n

\"Details<\/p>\n

The ministry\u2019s surgical backlog presentation, obtained by Global News through a freedom of information request, also indicates the province has been giving millions of taxpayer dollars to 17 independent health facilities to increase access to services.<\/p>\n

In a 2012 report, Ontario\u2019s auditor general said independent health facilities have long been part of the province\u2019s health care system and come at no cost to users, but \u201care independently owned and operated, and 98 per cent of them are for-profit corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n

They provide services such as x-rays or ultrasounds in a non-hospital setting.<\/p>\n

As the province faced a growing backlog of medical procedures during the pandemic, Jones was briefed by ministry staff on the role for-profit intuitions could play.<\/p>\n

The document obtained by Global News is undated but was part of a batch of presentations and reports released from Jones\u2019 transition binder, created to inform her of her new role when she became minister of health in June 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs part of the Surgical Recovery Strategy, community-based IHFs or Private Hospitals are being leveraged to help increase capacity of routine, low-risk, publicly funded surgical and diagnostic imaging procedures\/services (e.g., cataracts, hernia repair, plastics, MRI\/CT),\u201d the presentation said.<\/p>\n

Over the past two years, the document said, a total of $18.5 million had been spent across 17 IHFs to fund around 4,000 extra surgeries and 60,000 MRI and CT scan hours.<\/p>\n

A further $18.4 \u201cin one-time incremental volumes will be allocated to IHFs\u201d pending approval, it added. Officials did not confirm or respond to questions asking if this approval had been granted.<\/p>\n

Another auditor general report published in 2021 found there was \u201cinconsistent oversight and co-ordination of outpatient surgeries\u201d delivered by different providers, including independent health facilities.<\/p>\n

As part of the report, the auditor general used mystery shoppers who made 80 phone calls to 25 providers of outpatient procedures, including a private hospital and independent health facilities.<\/p>\n

The report said that some of the clinics called, which included independent health facilities, provided misleading information, including telling them that specialty lenses not covered by OHIP were necessary.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome clinics indicated that the standard eye testing covered by OHIP is of inferior quality and that add-on tests provide more thorough and accurate results,\u201d the 2021 report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there may be benefits to undergoing add-on tests, specifically when opting for a specialty lens, these clinics are misleading patients by indicating that the OHIP-covered testing is inferior.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Health did not address questions from Global News asking if there were provisions within the expanded funding agreements for private hospitals and independent health facilities to ensure patients using OHIP were not upsold.<\/p>\n

In total, the presentation suggests as much as $23.4 million has been set aside for private and for-profit health care providers to assist with Ontario\u2019s hospital recovery over the\u00a02022-23 year.<\/p>\n

While that number represents as a relatively small proportion of the $300 million set aside for surgical recovery in 2023, critics say it could be a step on the road to privatization of Ontario\u2019s health care system \u2014 and argue the money should be spent in hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got operating rooms in the public system that are not operating and instead they\u2019re going to fund these private clinics, which will cost more and fragment the system,\u201d said Ross Sutherland, chair of the board of the Ontario Health Coalition.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake that $24 million and put it into the public hospitals,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In November, Global News reported that talking points offering a forceful denial of privatizing Ontario health care had been removed from the minister of health\u2019s house binder.<\/p>\n

One sentence \u2014 \u201cNo, we are not privatizing healthcare\u201d \u2014 was scratched out with pen, as was another: \u201cI want to be clear, there has been no expansion to the number of private hospitals who offer publicly funded procedures in Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking on Wednesday, Ford signalled the role of for-profit health-care providers was likely to continue to increase.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even like the word private because it\u2019s really not \u2014 I can assure you; no Ontarian will ever have to pay with a credit card, they will pay with their OHIP card,\u201d the premier said, noting that independent health facilities would be called upon to take \u201cthe burden\u201d off hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t care where they have to go, as long as it has the same regulations, same top-notch doctors that are working in the hospital,\u201d he continued.\u201d We need to have facilities like that to take the burden off hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n

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