{"id":4279,"date":"2016-04-13T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2021-07-21T16:34:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T20:34:05","slug":"report-ontarios-community-hospital-cuts-worst-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/report-ontarios-community-hospital-cuts-worst-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"<FONT COLOR=\"#E00000\">REPORT: <\/FONT> &#8220;Beyond Limits&#8221;: Ontario\u2019s community hospital cuts worst in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(April 13, 2016)<\/p>\n<p>Toronto \u2013 The data is irrefutable. Ontario\u2019s cuts to hospital nursing care and hospital beds are the most severe of anywhere in Canada. In a new report <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/final-beyond-limits-report1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Beyond Limits: Ontario\u2019s Deepening Hospital Cuts Crisis<\/em> <\/a><\/span>released today, the Ontario Health Coalition finds that the cuts to community hospital care are a result of eight consecutive years of global funding for the province\u2019s hospitals. Now, heading into the ninth year in a row of real-dollar cuts to hospitals\u2019 global budgets, Ontario\u2019s community hospitals are now lagging behind virtually all other provinces in every reasonable measure of hospital funding. The coalition\u2019s report includes an updated list tracking hospital service and staffing cuts in every region of the province for the last four years. Among the key findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ontario\u2019s government has cut hospitals\u2019 global budgets in real-dollar terms for 8 years in a row. If the government does not change course, 2016 -17 will be the ninth consecutive year of hospital cuts \u2013 the longest period of hospital cuts in the history of Ontario\u2019s public hospitals.<\/li>\n<li>Ontario now has the least amount of nursing care per average patient (including RN and RPN care).<\/li>\n<li>Ontario has the fewest hospital beds left of all provinces in Canada, and lags far below the other provinces.<\/li>\n<li>Ontario has the highest hospital readmission rates in Canada, and they are rising.<\/li>\n<li>By every reasonable measure, Ontario\u2019s hospital funding levels are at or near the bottom of the country and far from the average of the other provinces.<\/li>\n<li>Cuts are resulting a crisis of overcrowding; cancelled surgeries because there are no beds; too-early discharges; high re-admission rates; infections; violence; ambulance delays; understaffing; and compromised safety for patients and staff alike.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat people are sleeping on stretchers in hallways in every major city in Ontario, sometimes for days at a time, is a travesty. Small and rural hospitals are being eviscerated despite all evidence regarding community need. The fact that staffing and funding are being cut to unsafe levels without any reasonable benchmarks shows just how far beyond any limits Ontario\u2019s hospital cuts have gone,\u201d said Natalie Mehra, executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition. \u201cThis issue should be considered the serious crisis that it truly is, by our policy makers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Student interns from Ryerson University\u2019s nursing program, Patricia Julian and Celine Yu helped to research and compile the list of cuts. They expressed shock at what they found. \u201cAmong the enormous cuts to hospitals in the largest cities of Ontario, what stood out to me the most were the cuts to mental health services,\u201d noted Patricia Julian, citing cuts from Hamilton\u2019s east end psychiatric clinic to London Ontario where mental health patients have been sleeping on the emergency department floor while waiting for hospital beds to open up. \u201cThese cuts are devastating to an already vulnerable population.\u201d \u201cNorthern and small community\u2019s hospitals have been victim to numerous cuts and even the risk of closure,\u201d reported Celine Yu. \u201cThese closures and cuts risk patients\u2019 lives and ultimately the health of entire communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike every Ontarian, we have been appalled at the money that is taken away from care in exorbitant executive salaries, consultants, PR people and ballooning managements,\u201d noted Ms. Mehra. \u201cBut even taking this into account, Ontario\u2019s government still funds our communities\u2019 hospitals at a lower rate by every measure than other provinces and has cut care levels beyond any comparable jurisdiction. This underlines the facts that our government can and should choose to restore services and funding, and to ensure that funding goes to actual care and vital support services that patients rely upon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information:<\/strong> Kim Johnston campaign director (416) 441-2502.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/hospital-cuts-report-beyond-limits-website-version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MEDIA RELEASE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/final-beyond-limits-report1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FULL REPORT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(April 13, 2016) Toronto \u2013 The data is irrefutable. Ontario\u2019s cuts to hospital nursing care and hospital beds are the most severe of anywhere in Canada. 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