{"id":6029,"date":"2018-02-02T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2020-11-04T16:55:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:55:48","slug":"release-health-ministers-hospital-bed-announcement-welcome-but-it-is-only-a-temporary-band-aid-more-is-needed-health-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/release-health-ministers-hospital-bed-announcement-welcome-but-it-is-only-a-temporary-band-aid-more-is-needed-health-coalition\/","title":{"rendered":"<FONT COLOR=\"#E00000\">RELEASE: <\/FONT>Health Minister\u2019s hospital bed announcement welcome but it is only a temporary band aid, more is needed: Health Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Health Minister\u2019s hospital bed announcement welcome but it is only a temporary band aid, more is needed: Health Coalition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(February 2, 2018)\u00a0 Toronto \u2013 \u201cAlthough the Minister\u2019s announcement today promising to extend funding for 1,235 \u2018temporary\u2019 hospital beds for one year is a positive step it is only a temporary band aid that will not solve the hospital overcrowding crisis,\u201d said Natalie Mehra, Executive Director of the Ontario Health Coalition to news media today,\u00a0 \u201cMore is needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Minister\u2019s welcome announcement of 1,200 temporary hospital beds last fall, Ontario\u2019s hospital overcrowding crisis continues.\u00a0 \u201cFlu season is not the cause of the overcrowding crisis in hospitals,\u201d Mehra said.\u00a0 \u201cThis crisis has been building for over a decade as a result of the most extreme cuts to hospital funding in Canada, resulting in severe bed shortages and hospitals stacked with sick people in halls and emergency rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cuts have made it impossible for hospitals to plan and expand to meet the needs of our growing population.\u00a0 This announcement by Minister Hoskins must be put into the context of the crisis as it exists today \u2013 right now. Ontario communities have lived with the deepest cuts to hospital services compared to any other province in Canada.\u00a0 And, more alarmingly, the cuts are deeper than in any other country in the developed world.<\/p>\n<p>Please note this fact:\u00a0 Ontario has the fewest hospital beds per person, the least amount of nursing care per patient, and the most severe hospital overcrowding in all of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Mehra warned that the government\u2019s written fiscal plan is to increase funding for one year and then cut health care funding the year after the election. Leading into June\u2019s provincial election, the Coalition is calling for all Ontario political parties to commit to developing a capacity plan to reopen hospital beds, operating rooms and services based on the population\u2019s need for care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo more opportunistic pre-election promises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t cut funding for a decade and then a year before an election start to put some \u2013 but not enough \u2013 money back in.\u00a0 People are suffering and we need a real plan to restore public hospital capacity to reasonable, rational, evidence-based levels to get us out of the ongoing crisis.\u00a0 Anything less is irresponsible and inhumane,\u201d concluded Mehra.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Release-Feb-02-2018-Hoskins-announcement-more-beds.pdf\">Click here for Printable Version<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Minister\u2019s hospital bed announcement welcome but it is only a temporary band aid, more is needed: Health Coalition (February 2, 2018)\u00a0 Toronto \u2013 \u201cAlthough the Minister\u2019s announcement today promising to extend funding for 1,235 \u2018temporary\u2019 hospital beds for one year is a positive step it is only a temporary band aid that will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,73,21,1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospitals","category-hospitals-media-releases","category-ohc-in-the-news","category-uncategorized","category-whats-new"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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