{"id":5856,"date":"2017-10-24T16:18:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2020-05-08T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:52:51","slug":"ontario-hospitals-getting-more-beds-140-million-in-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/ontario-hospitals-getting-more-beds-140-million-in-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario hospitals getting more beds, $140 million in funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(October 24, 2017)<\/p>\n<p>By: Toronto Metro Staff<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subheadline\">Health Minister Eric Hoskins has announced $140 million in funding to make more hospital beds available and enhance home care services.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5857\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/onhospitals.jpg.size_.xxlarge.promo_-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/onhospitals.jpg.size_.xxlarge.promo_-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/onhospitals.jpg.size_.xxlarge.promo_.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"credit buyphoto\"><em>PETER POWER \/ FOR THE TORONTO STAR\u00a0<\/em><em>Two patients share a room, formerly a sun room, on the fifth floor of Hamilton General Hospital last spring. Many of Ontario&#8217;s 143 hospitals were over 100-per-cent capacity last winter.<\/em><\/h6>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>The Ontario government has come to the rescue of overwhelmed hospitals with more money and beds \u2014 just as flu season is starting and pressure on the sector is growing even greater.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>Health Minister\u00a0Eric Hoskins announced Monday\u00a0that $100 million is being spent to open 1,235 hospital beds throughout the province. In Toronto, the plan includes reopening and repurposing two shuttered hospital sites: the University Health Network\u2019s former Hillcrest site and\u00a0Humber River Hospital\u2019s\u00a0former Finch site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>The 1,235 new hospital beds are the equivalent of six medium-sized hospitals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>\u201cThat will have a tremendous impact,\u201d Hoskins said, noting that hospitals today are accepting more patients who are staying longer, particularly those who are vulnerable and aging.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>The Finch site of Humber River is being turned into a 150-bed rehabilitation facility, renamed the Reactivation Care Centre.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>Among the services to be provided at the Hillcrest site are some offered by community agencies, aimed at keeping patients out of long-term care and helping them return home, where they would rather be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>Hoskins said some of the new beds will open in as soon as two weeks while all of the initiatives will roll out by the end of the calendar year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>An additional $40 million is being spent on home care to prevent people from being admitted to hospital in the first place and to care for others after they have been discharged.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>Much of the announcement is aimed at moving \u201calternate-level-of-care patients\u201d out of the hospital. They are typically seniors who no longer require acute hospital care and are waiting for long-term care, rehabilitation care or home care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>For example, the ministry is helping to fund 207 affordable housing units for seniors who require additional community supports when after being discharged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>Anthony Dale, president of the Ontario Hospital Association, welcomed the announcement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s announcement of a surge strategy will help address the unusual capacity challenge that hospitals and the wider health-care system is facing, in the short term,\u201d he said, adding that it will allow for greater flexibility in dealing with what is expected to be a tough flu season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>Because Australia has had a worse-than-normal flu season, it is expected that North America will also.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>\u201cThis winter, ongoing, extremely close collaboration and hospitals, government and the home and community sectors is essential \u2013 perhaps more than ever,\u201d Dale continued, echoing Hoskins\u2019s call for Ontarians to get a flu shot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>This past year has been a particularly tough one for hospitals. They were forced to open beds in\u00a0\u201cunconventional spaces\u201d\u00a0such as meeting rooms to handle the large volume.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>Many of the province\u2019s 143 hospitals were well over 100 per cent full last winter, and for some, the demand has not subsided.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>\u201cWhile it is normal to see an increase in patient volumes in winter months, it is uncommon, if not unheard of, during the summer,\u201d Dale said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>Hoskins\u2019s announcement comes just days after the release of Health Quality Ontario\u2019s annual report,\u00a0Measuring Up 2017,\u00a0which highlighted \u201chospital capacity\u201d as a significant problem in the province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>The organization, which monitors the performance of Ontario\u2019s health system, noted that patients spent on average 90 minutes longer in the ER this past year before being admitted to inpatient beds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>It also warned that wait times are increasing for hip-and-knee replacement surgery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>In question period on Monday, New Democrat MPP Gilles Bisson (Timmins\u2014James Bay) said the government has underfunded hospitals for too long. He accused the government of taking steps now only because there is a crisis and because an election is coming next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>The Ontario Health Coalition said the government\u2019s plan is only a \u201ctemporary band-aid\u201d solution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>\u201cOntario needs a long-term plan to rebuild capacity in our public hospitals to meet population need,\u201d said coalition executive director Natalie Mehra.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>Ontario has been cutting hospital beds for decades to the point that it has the fewest beds in Canada per 1,000 population, and among the fewest in the developed world, she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>The coalition charges that the province is shrinking the publicly funded hospital sector while expanding health-care privatization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p><i>With files by Robert Benzie<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metronews.ca\/news\/toronto\/2017\/10\/24\/ontario-hospitals-getting-more-beds-more-funding.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(October 24, 2017) By: Toronto Metro Staff Health Minister Eric Hoskins has announced $140 million in funding to make more hospital beds available and enhance home care services. 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