{"id":3462,"date":"2016-01-20T18:13:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T23:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:04:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T19:04:10","slug":"ontario-government-announces-parking-fee-cut-heres-the-low-down-on-high-cost-hospital-parking-hospital-funding-in-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/ontario-government-announces-parking-fee-cut-heres-the-low-down-on-high-cost-hospital-parking-hospital-funding-in-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario government announces parking fee cut: Here&#8217;s the low-down on high-cost hospital parking &#038; hospital funding in Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>(January 20, 2016)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By: Natalie Mehra, executive director, OHC<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We have raised it repeatedly for the last half-decade or more in legislative hearings on the Ontario Budget and the Local Health Integration Networks. Now, finally, the Ontario government is taking some modest action to roll back the worst of hospital parking fees.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In advance of\u00a0the protests against\u00a0hospital cuts that\u00a0we are holding across the province this week\u00a0at each pre-budget hearing, the government proclaimed early Monday morning that it will be requiring hospitals to roll back some parking fees.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But the announcement will not actually lower parking fees in many communities. This is the bottom line:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Hospitals will still be able to charge $10 per day or more\u00a0to visitors.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>For hospitals that charge $9.99 per day or less, nothing changes.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>But those hospitals that do charge $10 or\u00a0more per day for visitors will be required to provide access to 5 -, 10 -, and 30 &#8211; day passes discounted by 50%.\u00a0These discount passes must\u00a0be transferable between patients and caregivers and must include in- and out- privileges.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The reduction in fees still leaves hospital\u00a0parking rates higher than any other parking in many communities across the province. These parking rates will still cause hardship, particularly for seniors. The media is reporting that 36 hospitals charge more than $10 per day. Those are the only hospitals impacted by this week&#8217;s announcement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Moreover,\u00a0$9 a day for a senior who has to visit a loved one every day for weeks in hospital, is still a\u00a0big financial hit. (For two weeks, that cost is $126.)\u00a0 For those going in just for a day surgery, there is nothing in these measures that will alleviate the fee you are charged &#8212;\u00a0no matter whether it is a hardship for you to pay it or not.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It should not be the case that our public hospitals charge the highest parking fees in town. Not only are the fees escalating every year, but the truth is that hospitals have gone to extreme lengths to force patients,\u00a0their families and staff to\u00a0pay exorbitant\u00a0parking rates.\u00a0In many communities, hospitals have had lower-cost municipal parking meters or free parking removed from all streets surrounding the hospital in order to force patients into the high-cost hospital parking lots.\u00a0In one Ontario town, a\u00a0free church parking lot across the street from the hospital\u00a0has been\u00a0bought by the hospital foundation and barricaded in order to stop patients from parking\u00a0for free.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Some media reports include\u00a0claims\u00a0that the Health Ministry\u00a0consulted on this.\u00a0It did not consult the Ontario Health Coalition, though we represent half-a-million Ontarians in more than four hundred organizations, and we have repeatedly raised this issue in the media, in public forums and in legislative committees. In its media release the Ministry states only that it consulted the hospitals and the Ontario Hospital Association (which has generally represented the interests of hospital CEOs whose incomes couldn&#8217;t be more disparate from those seniors and patients\u00a0paying the parking fees).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hospitals have responded to the government&#8217;s announcement by saying that the Ministry has cut their funding and encouraged them to raise revenues from patients and their families through increased user fees. This is true. However, that doesn&#8217;t mean fees should stay high.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Ministry was wrong to cut hospital budgets and encourage hospitals to levy more user fees\u00a0in the first place,\u00a0and it\u00a0is a welcome development that the Minister of Health recognizes that\u00a0these fees are a huge burden to everyone, in particular seniors and those on fixed incomes.\u00a0Needed hospital care should not rely on user fees for the sick and their families.\u00a0The Ministry should never have let the parking fees get so out of control and any move to roll them back is welcome.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This leads us to the real issue that underlies this controversy: the\u00a0Ontario government must\u00a0improve funding levels for our public hospitals in the provincial budget and\u00a0 protect equitable access to health care for all Ontarians, without financial barrier for the sick and the elderly. This is the ethical solution, and the one that works in the public interest.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In fact, the Ontario Hospital Association should have been advocating for this for a long time, rather than being complicit\u00a0 &#8212; and worse &#8212; in the government&#8217;s\u00a0attempts to\u00a0shunt the burden onto hospital staff, the sick, the elderly and their families.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The real problem is hospital funding levels that are too low to meet population need for care. We are in the 9th consecutive year of real-dollar cuts to our communities&#8217; hospital budgets and Ontario&#8217;s hospital funding levels have plummeted to\u00a0the bottom of the country. For the last few years, we have been trading places back and forth with Quebec for the dubious distinction of which province has the worst hospital funding in Canada. This year we are second-last. The difference between our province and the national average is significant. Here is a chart showing our ranking, according to the latest government data:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\" width=\"282\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Public Hospital Funding<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Per Person, 2015\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Current $<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Newfoundland &amp; Labrador<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">$2,406<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Alberta<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">$2,245<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Prince Edward Island<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">$1,995<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">New Brunswick<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">$1,971<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Nova Scotia<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">$1,907<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Manitoba<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">$1,818<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">British Columbia<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">$1,797<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Saskatchewan<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">$1,761<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Ontario\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">$1,419<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Quebec<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">$1,382<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Average of Rest of Canada<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">$1,920<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"204\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Difference between Ontario and the average of the rest of Canada<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"78\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Ontario funds hospitals at $501 per person less<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span>Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information, National Health Expenditures Database, 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As a result, Ontario has the fewest hospital beds left per person of any province in Canada. In fact,\u00a0Ontario has\u00a0the fewest beds left compared to\u00a0virtually all\u00a0developed nations\u00a0in the world. We have the second-lowest nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in our hospitals.\u00a0Our hospitals\u00a0push patients out quicker and sicker than other jurisdictions, whether or not they are sufficiently recovered. The evidence is overwhelming that hospital budgets are inadequate. In every large town, patients line stretchers line hallways, ERs are overflowing, hospitals are on &#8220;code gridlock&#8221; because there are not enough beds left. Patients are being pushed out too sick, or have their surgeries cancelled because there are no available beds in which to recover. Tertiary hospitals (the really big hospitals with highly specialized care) can&#8217;t discharge patients to their regional\u00a0community hospitals because all the beds are full. Outpatient services and health professionals&#8217; care have been dismantled and privatized. Support staff and services, too, have been privatized, even when vital services like cleaning, patient records, food, and patient transport are of much worse quality.The evidence is overwhelming that the system is stretched beyond safety.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In\u00a0confronting the inequities and hardships caused by burgeoning\u00a0user-fees for patients, the government must finally confront the damage it is doing by cutting hospital budgets year after year after year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our message to Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thank you, Minister Hoskins for taking the first of what we are hoping will be more significant\u00a0steps to start to address the high parking fees in our public hospitals. Next time, the public interest and advocacy groups like ourselves that raised the issues should be consulted, not just the hospital CEOs. Next step &#8212; your government must finally stop the hospital budget cuts and plan to restore hospital funding, at least to meet the national average.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Natalie Mehra<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Executive Director<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Ontario Health Coalition<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/category\/news-events\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Previous Blog Posts<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(January 20, 2016) By: Natalie Mehra, executive director, OHC We have raised it repeatedly for the last half-decade or more in legislative hearings on the Ontario Budget and the Local Health Integration Networks. Now, finally, the Ontario government is taking some modest action to roll back the worst of hospital parking fees. 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