{"id":29622,"date":"2024-05-27T21:16:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T01:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=29622"},"modified":"2024-05-27T21:16:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T01:16:32","slug":"what-we-are-calling-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/what-we-are-calling-for\/","title":{"rendered":"<\/FONT> What We Are Calling For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(May 27, 2024)<\/p>\n<p>At the giant protests on May 30 and throughout our spring-summer 2024 outreach campaign, we are calling for the Ford government to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Expand and fund community health centres to meet their populations&#8217; needs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Stop private nurse practitioner-, surgical- and diagnostic- clinics from unlawfully and illegally charging patients for primary care, surgeries and diagnostics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Restore public hospital funding and bed capacity to match the average <\/span>of the other provinces<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Stop the closures of small and rural hospitals<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Build the new long-term care beds as public and not-for-profit, instate mandatory minimum care standards and reinstate inspections and enforcement<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Create supportive housing options<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Build a public, non-profit home care system<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Increase staff supply to meet the population\u2019s needs, attract back the <\/span>staff who have left and increase enrolment in public colleges and universities<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Create national public Pharmacare (coverage for medications)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"OYPEnA text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Improve equity and provide OHIP for all<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Links to other resources with our recommendations for safeguarding and improving public health care for all:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/election-platform-1.pdf\">Time to Rebuild: Health Care Platform for the 2018 Ontario General Election<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/home-care-the-care-we-need-report-final.pdf\">The Care We Need: Ontarians speak out on the state of home care &amp; A proposal for reforming home care in the public interest<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/ohc-primary-care-reform-position-paper\/\">Primary Care Reform Position Paper<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcoalition.ca\/project\/the-pharmacare-act-bill-c-64\/\">National public Pharmacare<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohipforall.ca\">OHIP for All<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/release-emergency-measures-needed-to-address-the-health-care-staffing-crisis\/\">Emergency Measures Needed to Address the Health Care Staffing Crisis<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allianceon.org\/Implementing-Health-Equity-Change-0\">Improve health equity<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(May 27, 2024) At the giant protests on May 30 and throughout our spring-summer 2024 outreach campaign, we are calling for the Ford government to: Expand and fund community health centres to meet their populations&#8217; needs Stop private nurse practitioner-, surgical- and diagnostic- clinics from unlawfully and illegally charging patients for primary care, surgeries and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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