{"id":6129,"date":"2018-03-22T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T18:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2020-11-04T16:55:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:55:33","slug":"release-better-but-not-cured-health-coalition-responds-to-wynne-pre-election-funding-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/release-better-but-not-cured-health-coalition-responds-to-wynne-pre-election-funding-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"<FONT COLOR=\"#E00000\">RELEASE: <\/FONT>Better but not cured:\u00a0 Health Coalition responds to Wynne pre-election funding announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(March 22, 2018) Toronto \u2013 Today\u2019s hospital funding announcement is a move in the right direction but still falls short, the Ontario Health Coalition reported at Queen\u2019s Park after the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Kathleen Wynne announced a 4.6 per cent increase in hospital funding to be unveiled in next week\u2019s provincial Budget, just weeks in advance of the June 7<sup>th<\/sup> election.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Health Coalition is asking for a 5.2 per cent hospital funding increase, multi-year funding and a concrete plan to reopen closed hospital beds, wards, operating rooms and clinics that have been steadily closed down throughout years of cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we are obviously positive that the Wynne government is moving in the right direction, today\u2019s announcement is still awfully last minute and the funding announcement coming just weeks before an election does not erase a decade of hospital cuts,\u201d said Natalie Mehra, Executive Director of the Ontario Health Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2017 Budget the Ontario government planned to bump up hospital funding during the election year and then drop it to 3.2 per cent after the election. The Coalition wants clarification as to whether Premier Wynne still intends to drop the funding back down one year from now, as was the case in the last provincial election.<\/p>\n<p>The Coalition has spent the last 12 years fighting local hospital cuts, closures and privatization.\u00a0 \u201cWe have saved a dozen small and rural hospitals, birthing units, emergency departments and a vast array of beds and services,\u201d Mehra said.\u00a0 \u201cHowever, it has taken years to start to turn the tide. We are concerned that this announcement is temporary and insufficient &#8211; and not enough to redress the cuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fast facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Ontario has the fewest hospital beds per population of any province in Canada.\u00a0 As a consequence Ontario has the worst overcrowding crisis in its hospitals of any province or developed country. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ontario funds our hospitals at the lowest rate in the country.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ontario has the highest rate of hospital readmission in Canada.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ontario has the least amount of nursing care in our hospitals of any province in Canada. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><em>Links to charts and data sources: <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\"><strong><em>www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0 Health System Facts+Trends<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(March 22, 2018) Toronto \u2013 Today\u2019s hospital funding announcement is a move in the right direction but still falls short, the Ontario Health Coalition reported at Queen\u2019s Park after the announcement. 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