{"id":4112,"date":"2016-03-21T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2021-07-21T16:34:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T20:34:21","slug":"release-welland-hospital-awareness-day-at-ontario-legislature-patients-residents-demand-plan-to-close-welland-hospital-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/release-welland-hospital-awareness-day-at-ontario-legislature-patients-residents-demand-plan-to-close-welland-hospital-be-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"<FONT COLOR=\"#E00000\">RELEASE: <\/FONT> Welland Hospital Awareness Day at Ontario Legislature: Patients, Residents Demand Plan to Close Welland Hospital Be Stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"6i3dq-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6i3dq-0-0\">(March 21, 2016)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"cm9r6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cm9r6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cm9r6-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"co98f-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"co98f-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"co98f-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Toronto \u2013 At a press conference today at Queen\u2019s Park, patients and concerned citizens from Welland issued an urgent plea to Ontario\u2019s Minister of Health to overturn the decision to close the Welland Hospital, telling him that more than 100,000 people served by the Welland Hospital will suffer worse access to vital health services if the Welland Hospital is closed. The group has been working tirelessly to save the Welland hospital from closure and has collected more than 14,000 signatures on a petition that will be presented this afternoon in the Legislature, by Cindy Forster, Member of Provincial Parliament for Welland. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"dba8b-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dba8b-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dba8b-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"pt1g-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"pt1g-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"pt1g-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Currently, there is a plan to close five entire community hospitals in the Niagara region, including the Welland Hospital. The closure of a hospital serving 100,000 people is almost unheard of in Canada. All patients would be forced to travel to other communities for acute care, inpatient services and emergency department services. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"d01rr-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"d01rr-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"d01rr-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"cegr6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cegr6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"cegr6-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Last year, Dr. John Lister, an international health policy expert from Coventry University conducted an analysis of the plan, and warned that closing five hospitals in Niagara not only risks patient safety, but also that the closure plan, proposed by Niagara Health System CEO Kevin Smith, lacks any rational justification and contains glaring omissions. The proposal and planning documents used by the government-appointed LHIN to approve the motion to close five of Niagara\u2019s community hospitals contained no analysis of population need for care nor transportation.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"4uou6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4uou6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4uou6-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"c24h1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c24h1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c24h1-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Already, the Niagara Health System\u2019s occupancy levels for acute care routinely exceed 100%, placing the NHS among the most overcrowded hospitals in Ontario. Moreover, Niagara has the second highest number of seniors but the second lowest number of long-term care beds per population, according to LHIN documents. The seniors population will be particularly hard-hit by the closure of the Welland Hospital. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"3nt5a-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3nt5a-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3nt5a-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"9iibt-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9iibt-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9iibt-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">\u201cHaving a local community hospital is not like a mall, where you have the luxury to shop around. When you have an emergency, or you need care, often you need it quickly,\u201d said Henry Miron, a Welland resident who uses the health care system. \u201cIf that care is not in your own town, it can be a matter of life and death. We shouldn\u2019t have to run around the Niagara peninsula for care, it should be provided in our own community.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"68o07-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"68o07-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"68o07-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"d679p-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"d679p-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"d679p-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">\u201cOur region is being suffocated by hospital cuts and closures, the worst in all of Ontario. No argument out of the Ministry of Health could possibly justify the plan to close five entire community hospitals and replace them with one,\u201d said Sue Hotte, co-chair of the Niagara Health Coalition. \u201cNot only is this plan not grounded in evidence, it is dangerous, especially in a community so heavily populated by seniors.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"29uah-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"29uah-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"29uah-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"4odj6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4odj6-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4odj6-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">\u201cAcross Ontario, we are seeing the devastating impact of hospital cuts in communities large and small. Ontario is now in the ninth consecutive year of hospital cuts, as the Wynne government systematically dismantles the public community hospital system,\u201d said Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition. \u201cWhat we are seeing in Niagara is among the very worst. It\u2019s time the Ministry of Health realized that the plan to close the Welland hospital must be stopped and services restored.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"6dp2c-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6dp2c-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6dp2c-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9sk2n\" data-offset-key=\"7gb89-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7gb89-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7gb89-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">For more information: contact Sue Hotte, co-chair, Niagara Health Coalition, 905-932-1646 (cell) or Natalie Mehra, executive director, Ontario Health Coalition, 416-441-2502 (office).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7gb89-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7gb89-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/release-welland-awareness-day-website-version.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Click here for printable version\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(March 21, 2016) \u00a0 Toronto \u2013 At a press conference today at Queen\u2019s Park, patients and concerned citizens from Welland issued an urgent plea to Ontario\u2019s Minister of Health to overturn the decision to close the Welland Hospital, telling him that more than 100,000 people served by the Welland Hospital will suffer worse access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,90,16,73,1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuts-restructuring","category-cutsrestructuring-media-releases","category-hospitals","category-hospitals-media-releases","category-uncategorized","category-whats-new"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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