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Health Coalition Announces Massive Fight Back to Stop the Ford Government’s Plans to Privatize Ontario’s Public Hospitals

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Monday, April 17, 2023

On January 16, the Ford government announced it is moving forward with plans to “substantially,” in their own words, expand for-profit clinics and hospitals to take the surgeries and diagnostics out of our local public hospitals. Surgeries, MRIs and CTs are core public hospital services. In response to media questions, Premier Ford said that it is his government’s estimation that 50% of the surgeries done in our public hospitals are the “easy” sort-- the profitable ones that for-profit clinics and hospitals want to take – and the kind that his government wants to privatize. The government has contracted the first three for-profit clinics (day hospitals) in Windsor, Waterloo and Ottawa, and is allowing for-profit corporations to run surgeries out of under-used public hospital operating rooms already.

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, April 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For the first time, Ontario’s government is pushing forward with plans to privatize the province’s public hospitals.
  • On January 16, the Ford government announced it is moving forward with plans to “substantially,” in their own words, expand for-profit clinics and hospitals to take the surgeries and diagnostics out of our local public hospitals.
  • The Health Coalition has vowed an unprecedented fightback to match the unprecedented privatization of Ontario’s core public health care services.
  • The Ontario public has never had any say about this plan to cut these vital services from our local public hospitals and privatize them.

Health Coalition Announces Massive Fight Back to Stop the Ford Government’s Plans to Privatize Ontario’s Public Hospitals

Retrieved on: 
Friday, April 14, 2023

On January 16, the Ford government announced it is moving forward with plans to “substantially,” in their own words, expand for-profit clinics and hospitals to take the surgeries and diagnostics out of our local public hospitals. Surgeries, MRIs and CTs are core public hospital services. In response to media questions, Premier Ford said that it is his government’s estimation that 50% of the surgeries done in our public hospitals are the “easy” sort-- the profitable ones that for-profit clinics and hospitals want to take – and the kind that his government wants to privatize. The government has contracted the first three for-profit clinics (day hospitals) in Windsor, Waterloo and Ottawa, and is allowing for-profit corporations to run surgeries out of under-used public hospital operating rooms already.

Key Points: 
  • TORONTO, April 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For the first time, Ontario’s government is pushing forward with plans to privatize the province’s public hospitals.
  • On January 16, the Ford government announced it is moving forward with plans to “substantially,” in their own words, expand for-profit clinics and hospitals to take the surgeries and diagnostics out of our local public hospitals.
  • The Health Coalition has vowed an unprecedented fightback to match the unprecedented privatization of Ontario’s core public health care services.
  • The Ontario public has never had any say about this plan to cut these vital services from our local public hospitals and privatize them.

Kingston Health Sciences Centre and Providence Care Announce Virtual Job Fair For Healthcare Workers, Registration now Open through vFairs

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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

"We at KEYS Job Centre are pleased to be working alongside two of Kingston's largest and most prestigious employers.

Key Points: 
  • "We at KEYS Job Centre are pleased to be working alongside two of Kingston's largest and most prestigious employers.
  • Kingston is an incredible city to work and we are looking forward to an event that showcases this," noted Matthew Snell, Employer Liaison at KEYS Job Centre.
  • Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is Southeastern Ontario's largest acute-care academic hospital.
  • Providence Care's long-term care program is provided at Providence Manor a 243-bed home located in downtown Kingston.

VitalHub Announces Deployment of Patient Flow Solution to Support the Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Windsor and Essex County (Southwestern Ontario)

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Thursday, March 19, 2020

The solution is being rolled out at Windsor Regional Hospitals two Campuses (Met and Ouellette) as well as at Hotel-Dieu Grace HealthCare, Bluewater Health, Erie Shores Health Care and Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.

Key Points: 
  • The solution is being rolled out at Windsor Regional Hospitals two Campuses (Met and Ouellette) as well as at Hotel-Dieu Grace HealthCare, Bluewater Health, Erie Shores Health Care and Chatham-Kent Health Alliance.
  • Each of the Windsor and Essex County Hospitals have worked with the Oculys solutions to support improvements in patient flow and operational visibility for a number of years.
  • The Company has a robust two-pronged growth strategy, targeting organic growth opportunities within its product suite, and pursuing an aggressive M&A plan.
  • Although the management of each entity believes that the assumptions underlying these statements are reasonable, they may prove to be incorrect.