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(May 14, 2025)<\/p>\n

By: Durham Radio News<\/p>\n

Amid a growing number of department closures across the province, advocates are asking the province to enforce minimum standards on which services hospitals must offer.<\/p>\n

Representatives from the Ontario Health Coalition spoke at Queen\u2019s Park on Wednesday to discuss the staffing shortages.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re calling for a minimum standard that says that you cannot have a hospital with no inpatient beds and no emergency department,\u201d said Executive Director Natalie Mehra. \u201cThe minister should set that standard and require that the hospitals find it and have their discussion about what resources are needed to make that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA hospital has an emergency department,\u201d she added. \u201cIt has a lab. It has inpatient beds. It has continuing care beds. It has at least a palliative care bed so people can die closer to home.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the group, emergency rooms in Ontario had to close their doors more than 1,100 times in 2024. This includes overnight closures, weekend closures and\u00a0at least one permanent shutdown<\/span><\/a>\u00a0at a hospital in Minden.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we have hospitals where there\u2019s no [emergency room] after 5 p.m., or it might be 7 p.m. or it might be 8 p.m.,\u201d said Mehra. \u201cDifferent times in every town. You have to go on websites or Facebook pages and try and find it. It\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also pointed Thessalon and West Grey, where hospitals have reportedly, in recent years, had to close their inpatient units and transfer patients elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The coalition has long argued the issue stems from overwork and underfunding, and that health professionals are being lured to private nursing agencies, American hospitals or more urban settings.<\/p>\n

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