{"id":513,"date":"2011-04-29T14:18:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T18:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=513"},"modified":"2021-07-21T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T19:08:01","slug":"mcguinty-government-fails-to-take-hospital-secrecy-off-the-table-amendment-to-budget-bill-gives-hospitals-wide-berth-to-hide-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/mcguinty-government-fails-to-take-hospital-secrecy-off-the-table-amendment-to-budget-bill-gives-hospitals-wide-berth-to-hide-information\/","title":{"rendered":"<FONT COLOR=\"#E00000\">RELEASE: <\/FONT> McGuinty Government Fails to Take Hospital Secrecy Off the Table &#8211; Amendment to Budget Bill Gives Hospitals Wide Berth to Hide Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(April 29, 2011)<\/p>\n<p>Public interest and patient advocates are calling on Premier McGuinty to withdraw a controversial clause slipped into the Budget Bill that will enable hospitals to hide information from the public. Earlier this month, the McGuinty government included a clause \u2013 Schedule 15 \u2013 in the Budget Measures Bill (173) that would enable hospital CEOs to shield from public scrutiny any information about quality of care produced for or by a hospital committee. The government has pushed through the budget bill quickly, opting for only one day of public hearings last week, on the eve of a national holiday. A proposed amendment announced by the government provides no substantive change.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MEDIA-RELEASE-April-29-20111.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for Media Release<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(April 29, 2011) Public interest and patient advocates are calling on Premier McGuinty to withdraw a controversial clause slipped into the Budget Bill that will enable hospitals to hide information from the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario-budgets","category-ontario-budgets-media-releases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RELEASE:  McGuinty Government Fails to Take Hospital Secrecy Off the Table - Amendment to Budget Bill Gives Hospitals Wide Berth to Hide Information - Ontario Health Coalition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(April 29, 2011) Public interest and patient advocates are calling on Premier McGuinty to withdraw a controversial clause slipped into the Budget Bill that will enable hospitals to hide information from the public.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/mcguinty-government-fails-to-take-hospital-secrecy-off-the-table-amendment-to-budget-bill-gives-hospitals-wide-berth-to-hide-information\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RELEASE:  McGuinty Government Fails to Take Hospital Secrecy Off the Table - Amendment to Budget Bill Gives Hospitals Wide Berth to Hide Information - Ontario Health Coalition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(April 29, 2011) Public interest and patient advocates are calling on Premier McGuinty to withdraw a controversial clause slipped into the Budget Bill that will enable hospitals to hide information from the public.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/mcguinty-government-fails-to-take-hospital-secrecy-off-the-table-amendment-to-budget-bill-gives-hospitals-wide-berth-to-hide-information\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ontario Health Coalition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ontariohealth?fref=ts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-04-29T18:18:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-21T19:08:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"ohcissues\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"ohcissues\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/mcguinty-government-fails-to-take-hospital-secrecy-off-the-table-amendment-to-budget-bill-gives-hospitals-wide-berth-to-hide-information\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/index.php\\\/mcguinty-government-fails-to-take-hospital-secrecy-off-the-table-amendment-to-budget-bill-gives-hospitals-wide-berth-to-hide-information\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"ohcissues\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/242de7ad07a1ab22de40e9a5478cc18b\"},\"headline\":\"RELEASE: McGuinty Government Fails to Take Hospital Secrecy Off the Table &#8211; 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